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 ...

My mother and I spent an afternoon unfurling my lola’s apartment a few days after she died, back in 2017. In her closet, my grandmother had stored a big cardboard box with an address in Manila written ...

U.S. students may be counting the days until summer break, but Lody Steward's nieces and nephews in the Philippines are prepping for their school's start in June. That's why one of her balikbayan ...

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 ...