PHOENIX — Beginning in the 1970s, just about every Filipino household in America was either hauling balikbayan boxes in person or mailing them to relatives back in the Philippines. These care packages ...

About three hours before Philippine Airlines Flight 102 leaves for Manila from LAX, the boxes begin to spill onto the curb outside Tom Bradley International Terminal. Packed with gifts such as ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Customs will form a task force to address recurring issues raised by overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) about balikbayan boxes, the BOC announced yesterday. In a ...

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 ...