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 ...

It’s the holiday season again in the Philippines. Christmas lights outline homes and buildings. You carefully plan what to cook for the family for noche buena. Children carollers happily belt out the ...

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—More than 100 “balikbayan” boxes sent by overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to their families can finally be claimed by their intended recipients after the government waived the ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...