MANILA, Philippines - With 70 percent of the balikbayan boxes arriving in the country during the Christmas season, the Bureau of Customs ((BOC) has come out with an online tracking system to help the ...

MISSION VIEJO, California — If you shipped your balikbayan box to your family in Metro Manila before Halloween from Southern California, your shipper probably assured you the box would make it there ...

SAN MATEO, California – While the proposed inspection of balikbayan boxes entering the Philippines has been shelved as a result of global protests from OFWs, increased tariff charges on cargo ...

FOR the millions of Filipinos working and living abroad, the balikbayan box they send to their loved ones here in the country is not just a box full of canned goods, apparel or toys for their kids to ...

Filipino expats around the world, those in the UAE included, send packages back home containing various items. Inside these boxes one may find imported food, toys, gadgets, clothing and more. These ...

Balikbayan boxes sent by qualified Filipinos abroad will be duty- and tax-free starting Christmas Day, December 25 MANILA, Philippines – Good news for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). Starting ...

I have never personally received a balikbayan box from abroad addressed to me, nor have I sent one home from abroad to myself (to, say, avoid airline excess baggage fees). But I have surely received ...

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 ...

With investors complaining of continued rampant smuggling and a special task force concluding that there’s extortion outside and inside the Port of Manila, the Bureau of Customs has trained its sights ...