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

Ports of Manila and Davao have been turned over to overseas Filipino workers’ (OFWs) families, according to the Department of ...

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 ...

LBC Express announces it has recorded over 600,000 deliveries worldwide as of the end of Q3 2025. The company is ...

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 ...

[FILE] On March 1, 2024, the Bureau of Customs (BOC), through the Manila International Container Port (MICP), and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) intercepted a shipment from Thailand ...

ICONIC is the image of the “balikbayan” box — that big, rectangular carton box that contains cans of Spam, Vienna sausages, ...

It’s the holiday season again in the Philippines. Christmas lights outline homes and buildings. You carefully plan what to cook for the family for noche buena. Children carollers happily belt out the ...

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