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 ...

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 ...

R'Bonney Gabriel is letting her Filipino side show with the multiple balikbayan boxes she took to the airport. With just a week left before the coronation for this year's Miss Universe pageant, all ...

These boxes can take months to fill. Yet it’s ability to help Filipinos reconnect with loved ones means it is yet another sacrifice worth making. The Philippines provides a large labour force for the ...

MANILA, Philippines — What seemed to be innocent balikbayan boxes turned out to be tools for a large-scale drug smuggling attempt following the discovery of P749 million worth of shabu during an ...

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 ...

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

The holiday season is for honouring traditions, spreading love and joy, and spending time with loved ones. For many Filipino-Canadians, being apart from loved ones in the Philippines calls for special ...

R’Bonney Gabriel is a Filipina through and through! The reigning Miss Universe posted her airport look before flying out to El Salvador. R’Bonney slayed an all-purple look of a bralette, mini skirt, ...