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 ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. TheatreFIRST will present Balikbayan Box, a new play by Bay Area wunderkind ...

We bring you a story from producer Elizabeth Santos, who traces the roots of one Filipino tradition, balikbayan boxes, to a complicated history while exploring a personal family mystery.

MANILA – The Bureau of Customs on Thursday said it has turned over 2,954 abandoned balikbayan boxes to the Department of Migrant Workers that were left unclaimed in Davao after being mishandled. In a ...

There is a certain choke hold only balikbayan boxes have on me—a grip that starts the moment Mama calls and says, “Anak, may pinadala ako.” From that very second, I’m caught in this ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Customs confiscated shabu (crystal meth) valued at P749.63 million from balikbayan boxes at the Manila International Container Port on Thursday. This was the result ...