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 ...

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 ...

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 — 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 ...