Some 20 container vans of abandoned balikbayan boxes of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are set to be processed this week. ...

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) on Thursday started the delivery of some 130,000 unclaimed "balikbayan" boxes. This in response to the order of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. to ensure that the boxes ...

Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) receive their balikbayan boxes after a long period of waiting. These balikbayan boxes are ...

TWENTY-ONE shipping containers of abandoned balikbayan boxes of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) will be processed this week ...

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 ...

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has launched an online tracking portal for door-to-door Balikbayan box deliveries as part of ...

A quick-response code allowing overseas Filipino workers and their families to track the deliveries of balikbayan boxes has ...

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 ...

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 ...