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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

THE House of Representatives and government agencies are pushing for tougher accountability measures against freight forwarders and consolidators involved in missing or undelivered balikbayan boxes, ...

MANILA, Philippines — On average, hundreds of thousands of “balikbayan boxes” enter the Philippines every year, carrying not just gifts, but the love and sacrifice from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs ...