If you’re waiting for a balikbayan box from Dubai, you may need to be a little more patient.Cargo shipments bound for the ...

HOUSTON — Balikbayan boxes were invented more than 40 years ago when an influx of Filipino workers came to the United States. Now, they've become a cherished part of Filipino culture. The boxes ...

MANILA, Philippines — On average, hundreds of thousands of balikbayan boxes enter the Philippines each year, carrying not just gifts but also expressions of love, sacrifice and longing from overseas ...

Ports of Manila and Davao have been turned over to overseas Filipino workers’ (OFWs) families, according to the Department of ...

THE Bureau of Customs (BOC) and Department of Finance (DOF) will file criminal charges against 11 freight forwarding firms allegedly involved in the abandonment ...

MANDAUE CITY — After being stranded at ports and caught in issues involving erring freight forwarders, thousands of ...

Few Filipino Americans have ever opened a balikbayan box, muses chef Aaron Verzosa of Archipelago, about the giant care packages filled with food, clothing and trinkets sent home to the Philippines ...

Mitch Villaseñor picks up a balikbayan box. Boxes will then be loaded onto a container, driven to California, and shipped to the Philippines. Credit: Pat Nabong As a kid living in Laguna, a province ...

THIRTY families in Cebu finally received their long-awaited balikbayan boxes as the Bureau of Customs (BOC) and Department of ...

Piles of stuffed animals, clothes, hangers, towels, decorations — even bird feeders — were neatly gathered in Nita Matheson’s Springfield, Virginia, house last Wednesday. In her garage, flattened ...

Up to 25,818 balikbayan boxes abandoned by cargo handlers have been delivered to the families of overseas Filipino workers.