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 ...

The act of lovingly packing a balikbayan box and sending it back to loved ones is one way of showing them they are always in their hearts. As a child growing up in the Philippines, I remember one of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A balikbayan box door-to-door service operator shares the important things you need to know about sending parcels during the pandemic. Those who are unable to travel to the Philippines due to the ...

TWENTY-ONE shipping containers of abandoned balikbayan boxes of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) will be processed this week so they could finally be delivered to the workers’ families. In a social ...

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, ...