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 ...

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 ...

More than 100,000 balikbayan boxes that had been in storage for years at the Port of Manila were finally being distributed to the families of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), just days before ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Customs has confiscated five balikbayan boxes containing 82 kilos of marijuana and 1,881 cannabis vape pens valued at P102 million, the BOC reported yesterday. In a ...

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 Bureau of Customs (BOC) said it is hastening the finalization of a memorandum order for a mandatory registration of deconsolidators nationwide to better manage and facilitate the importation and ...

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 ...

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