MANILA – The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has set a new deadline for the delivery of the estimated 130,000 abandoned "balikbayan" ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

It is quite natural for Filipinos abroad to send a balikbayan box as gifts for friends and family in the Philippines. But some Filipinos in Western Australia are worried about their balikbayan boxes ...

THE Bureau of Customs (BoC) has started delivering "balikbayan" boxes sent by overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to their families in the Philippines. Customs Commissioner Ariel Nepomuceno said on ...

'Hindi kasalanan ng mga OFWs natin kung natagalan ang pagbuo ng impementing rules for the CMTA,' says Senator Ralph Recto MANILA, Philippines – Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto said on Monday, ...

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 ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has eased the rules for Filipinos availing of duty- and tax-free privileges for consolidated balikbayan boxes valued up to P150,000. Customs ...

R'Bonney Gabriel is letting her Filipino side show with the multiple balikbayan boxes she took to the airport. With just a week left before the coronation for this year's Miss Universe pageant, all ...