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 ...

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 ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has released a total of 1,996 unpaid and abandoned “balikbayan” boxes that were meant to be forwarded to recipients since July. Of the figure, 1,667 ...

MANILA, Philippines – The Bureau of Customs (BOC) is looking to deliver thousands of “balikbayan” boxes abandoned in a Manila port to the families of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in two months.

These boxes can take months to fill. Yet it’s ability to help Filipinos reconnect with loved ones means it is yet another sacrifice worth making. The Philippines provides a large labour force for the ...

Initial investigation by authorities show that after 'consolidators' collect money from OFWs and ship them, 'deconsolidators' in the Philippines abandon the shipments MANILA, Philippines – Potentially ...

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 House of Representatives and government agencies are pushing for tougher accountability measures against freight forwarders and consolidators involved in missing or undelivered balikbayan boxes, ...

R’Bonney Gabriel is a Filipina through and through! The reigning Miss Universe posted her airport look before flying out to El Salvador. R’Bonney slayed an all-purple look of a bralette, mini skirt, ...