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 ...

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 ...

When Jinky Dolar’s husband, Danielo, went back to the Philippines more than a decade ago, he was met with a surprise: Several of his family and friends were wearing the military t-shirts he thought he ...

From chocolates to perfumes, to gifts and other personal effects, thousands of abandoned balikbayan boxes will finally find ...

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 ...

THE Bureau of Customs (BOC) has suspended the privileges of the deconsolidators responsible for abandoning thousands of balikbayan boxes sent by overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to their families.

U.S. students may be counting the days until summer break, but Lody Steward's nieces and nephews in the Philippines are prepping for their school's start in June. That's why one of her balikbayan ...

MANILA, Philippines – The Bureau of Customs (BOC) is looking to deliver thousands of “balikbayan” boxes abandoned in a Manila ...

The Bureau of Customs, (BOC) in coordination with the National Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Migrant Workers, ...

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.

[FILE] On March 1, 2024, the Bureau of Customs (BOC), through the Manila International Container Port (MICP), and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) intercepted a shipment from Thailand ...