If you’re waiting for a balikbayan box from Dubai, you may need to be a little more patient.Cargo shipments bound for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MANILA, Philippines — On average, hundreds of thousands of “balikbayan boxes” enter the Philippines every year, carrying not ...

When Jinky Dolar’s husband, Danielo, went back to the Philippines more than a decade ago, he was met with a surprise: Several of his family and friends were wearing the military t-shirts he thought he ...

MANILA, Philippines — On average, hundreds of thousands of balikbayan boxes enter the Philippines each year, carrying not ...

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 ...

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 — The Bureau of Customs (BOC) on Tuesday seized a shipment of suspected shabu worth P476 million concealed in three balikbayan boxes at a warehouse in Vitas, Tondo, Manila. In a ...