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 ...

“Balikbayan” boxes are familiar sights in the homes of Filipinos with relatives who live or work in other countries. Sending balikbayan boxes—defined by the government as packages of personal effects ...

For Inquirer readers, the holidays are merrier when there’s a balikbayan box from a loved one to open. In a country where most families have members working or living abroad, sending balikbayan boxes, ...

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has set a new deadline for the delivery of the estimated 130,000 abandoned balikbayan boxes to ...

FOR the millions of Filipinos working and living abroad, the balikbayan box they send to their loved ones here in the country is not just a box full of canned goods, apparel or toys for their kids to ...

U.S. immigrants use myriad ways to stay connected to their communities of origin and make a difference back home. Some follow the traditional path of sending cash and consumer goods back to relatives.

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 ...

To figure out what might have happened and what you can do, it might help to understand first the long journey balikbayan boxes go through MANILA, Philippines – The balikbayan box has been an ...

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 ...

MANILA, Philippines - The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia topped the list of countries with the most number of complaints on undelivered balikbayan boxes by sea in 2013, according to the Department of Trade ...

Manila: As Filipinos marked National Migrant Workers Day, religious leaders urged people to take stock of the social costs of migration and how it affects the average family where at least one in ...