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 ...

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 ...

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 set a new deadline for the delivery of the estimated 130,000 abandoned balikbayan boxes to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

THE Bureau of Customs (BOC) has assured the public of the secure and safe delivery of all balikbayan boxes sent by overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to their families for the Christmas season. Customs ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Customs has confiscated 198.5 kilos of dried marijuana in balikbayan boxes valued at P238.2 million smugled from Thailand, a BOC official said yesterday. In a ...