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Coming Home for Christmas 2026

Photo: Paulo O / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) At 6:22am on 23 December 2019, a traveler from Halifax, Canada, stepped out of NAIA and took the photo above: paper lanterns overhead, carts piled with bags, and a crowd so thick the security guard could barely see the road. That is the part of coming […]

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Real Cost Per Kilo 2026

A jumbo balikbayan box from California to Metro Manila costs about USD 88 to ship. That is roughly PHP 110 a kilo if you pack it to 50 kg. Put the same 50 kg on an Emirates flight as airport excess baggage and you could pay USD 1,250, or more than PHP 78,000. Same pasalubong,

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Send Money to the Philippines From Abroad: Fees Compared

Two OFWs in Dubai send their padala on the same Monday morning. One pays AED 2,005 through Remitly and her mother in Batangas gets PHP 33,860 in her bank account. The other pays AED 2,000 on Wise with a debit card, and his family in Iloilo gets PHP 32,564. That is a PHP 1,296 gap

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