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 set a new deadline for the delivery of the estimated 130,000 abandoned balikbayan boxes to ...

MANILA, Philippines — Amid continued complaints regarding abandoned balikbayan boxes, the government will conduct an extensive information campaign to ensure that gifts of overseas Filipino workers ...

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has launched an investigation into the alleged selling of unclaimed balikbayan boxes online. “Iniimbestigahan natin kung saan yung source at anong balikbayan boxes ang ...

MANILA, Philippines—The Bureau of Customs was able to seize kush or dried marijuana leaves again, this time worth P158.7 million, in another set of balikbayan boxes coming from Thailand. BOC said on ...

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 ...

MANILA, Philippines — A resolution seeking to investigate the circumstances behind “balikbayan” boxes that never reached their destinations here in the Philippines and were abandoned in different ...