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Overseas Filipinos feel heartache over missing parcels for loved ones, demand answers

Katherine Langford
Editor-in-Chief · Saturday, October 24, 2026 at 4:00 AM · 1 min read
Overseas Filipinos feel heartache over missing parcels for loved ones, demand answers — South China Morning Post, Chicago Business news
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At this time of year, Fatima Ramos would normally be preparing her balikbayan boxes. Overseas Filipinos typically fill these boxes with gifts, clothes, food and household items to send to their loved ones back home in the Philippines for Christmas. Ramos has previously sent the tax-exempt parcels to her family and Philippine charity organisations from Abu Dhabi, where she works as a domestic worker. Now back in the Philippines, Ramos is seeking answers about the parcels she sent last year, some...

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