Beginning in the 1970s, just about every Filipino household in America was either hauling balikbayan boxes in person or mailing them to relatives back in the Philippines. These care packages that held ...

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 ...

The act of lovingly packing a balikbayan box and sending it back to loved ones is one way of showing them they are always in their hearts. As a child growing up in the Philippines, I remember one of ...

Sending of balikbayan boxes to the Philippines has saw a 60% surge this Christmas Also In This Package UAE residents enjoy a festive Christmas Eve Jumeirah bus stops now home to unique works of art ...

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 ...

It’s the holiday season again in the Philippines. Christmas lights outline homes and buildings. You carefully plan what to cook for the family for noche buena. Children carollers happily belt out the ...

In time for the Christmas rush, the Bureau of Customs launches an online tracker to help you check if the balikbayan box you’re waiting for is on its way MANILA, Philippines – Filipinos will now be ...

The senator also asks Customs Commissioner Alberto Lina to apologize to OFWs over the bureau's 'significant lapses' on the issue of balikbayan boxes MANILA, Philippines – Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” ...

TheatreFIRST will present Balikbayan Box, a new play by Bay Area wunderkind Jeffery Lo that asks "how many ways can you define love?" Joseph, a Filipino-American chef agrees to an arranged marriage ...