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 Bureau of Customs (BoC) has started delivering "balikbayan" boxes sent by overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to their families in the Philippines. Customs Commissioner Ariel Nepomuceno said on ...

MANILA, Philippines—More than 100 “balikbayan” boxes sent by overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to their families can finally be claimed by their intended recipients after the government waived the ...

MANILA, Philippines — Dried marijuana leaves and oil with an estimated value of P29 million concealed inside balikbayan boxes were seized at the Manila International Container Port (MICP), the Bureau ...

MANILA, Philippines — A quick-response code allowing overseas Filipino workers and their families to track the deliveries of balikbayan boxes has been released by the Bureau of Customs (BOC). About ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Customs (BoC) has started the delivery of an estimated 130,000 "balikbayan" boxes sent by overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to their respective families in time for ...

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 ...

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has launched an online tracking portal for its door-to-door Balikbayan box deliveries, aiming to clear the backlog of packages sent over the years by overseas Filipino ...

For the third consecutive year, Coca-Cola is bringing back its Christmas program inspired by the long-standing tradition of Filipinos living abroad who send Balikbayan boxes filled with sweets and ...