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 Department of Finance (DOF) and the Bureau of Customs (BOC) on Wednesday commenced the distribution of the first batch of ...

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 ...

OVERSEAS Filipino workers (OFWs) and their families are being encouraged to regularly check on the records of cargo forwarders to avoid cases of mishandling and ...

The act of lovingly packing a balikbayan box and sending it back to loved ones is one way of showing them they are always in their hearts. As a child growing up in the Philippines, I remember one of ...

MANILA, Philippines – There’s no doubt about it: overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) contribute much to the Philippine economy. More than anyone, their families are the ones who feel the benefits of ...

The "last batch" of delayed balikbayan boxes has been released by the Bureau of Customs (BOC). According to a statement on ...

MANILA, Philippines—Here’s good news for Filipinos expecting balikbayan boxes filled with goodies from their overseas relatives this Christmas. They may now track the progress of their packages on ...

Balikbayan boxes sent by qualified Filipinos abroad will be duty- and tax-free starting Christmas Day, December 25 MANILA, Philippines – Good news for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). Starting ...

With investors complaining of continued rampant smuggling and a special task force concluding that there’s extortion outside and inside the Port of Manila, the Bureau of Customs has trained its sights ...