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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MANILA, Philippines — Four balikbayan boxes containing shabu valued at P749 million were intercepted yesterday at the Manila International Container Port. Misdeclared as household goods and personal ...

MANILA, Philippines — Overseas Filipino workers have been urged to claim 294 balikbayan boxes abandoned for almost 16 months in a Manila warehouse. The balikbayan boxes are stored at CFS warehouse at ...

MANILA, Philippines — What seemed to be innocent balikbayan boxes turned out to be tools for a large-scale drug smuggling attempt following the discovery of P749 million worth of shabu during an ...