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 ...

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 ...

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has seized at least P476 million worth of suspected shabu in three balikbayan boxes that arrived from the United States. Weighing about 70 kilos, the boxes were intercepted ...

A recent order by the Bureau of Customs increasing duties for balikbayan boxes and subjecting them to physical inspection has sparked outrage among Filipino migrant worker communities around the globe ...

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.

U.S. immigrants use myriad ways to stay connected to their communities of origin and make a difference back home. Some follow the traditional path of sending cash and consumer goods back to relatives.

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 ...