The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has launched an online tracking portal for door-to-door Balikbayan box deliveries as part of efforts to clear a long-standing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Customs has committed to delivering the abandoned balikbayan boxes to their families by mid-December after a number of shipping companies failed to send them to the ...

MANILA, Philippines – The Senate has approved on third and final reading the Customs Modernization and Tariff Act (CMTA), which also raises to P150,000 from P10,000 the tax-exempt value of pasalubong ...

Michael Balangue DJs as Anito Soul at the Balikbayan Worldwide launch party on October 21, 2023. Credit: Diana Bowden On Saturday, October 21, more than a hundred people packed a white-walled ...

[FILE] On March 1, 2024, the Bureau of Customs (BOC), through the Manila International Container Port (MICP), and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) intercepted a shipment from Thailand ...

On Wednesday, researchers Selena Larson and Joe Wise said the threat actors, dubbed "Balikbayan Foxes" and tracked as TA2722, are concentrated in the Philippines but are targeting the shipping, ...

If you're a Filipino abroad hoping to send a balikbayan box for the holidays, here are tips and documents that can help MANILA, Philippines – Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) may now worry less about ...

OFW groups wish to remind the Bureau of Customs that the balikbayan box is their 'expression of love' to their families back home, the product of their hard work in a foreign land MANILA, Philippines ...