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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From chocolates to perfumes, to gifts and other personal effects, thousands of abandoned balikbayan boxes will finally find ...

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 ...

MANILA, Philippines – The Bureau of Customs (BOC) is looking to deliver thousands of “balikbayan” boxes abandoned in a Manila ...

The Bureau of Customs, (BOC) in coordination with the National Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Migrant Workers, ...

More than 100,000 balikbayan boxes that had been in storage for years at the Port of Manila were finally being distributed to the families of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), just days before ...

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.