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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Bureau of Customs (BOC) is eyeing to require freight forwarders and deconsolidators to post a cash bond as part of a ...