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COVID-19: Why Filipinos sent more balikbayan boxes back home
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Dubai: Due to the coronavirus pandemic, this was the first time Filipino expat Yeszi Cipriano, 27, did not spend Christmas with her family in the Philippines. This was also the first time that she prepared a balikbayan box to send her gifts to her loved ones. A balikbayan box is one of the most recognisable symbols of Filipino diaspora. Literally, the translation of balikbayan box is ‘repatriation box’, a corrugated carton containing items overseas Filipinos send back home. Balikbayan boxes come in different sizes and they contain a sundry of items — from chocolates to non-perishable food, toys, gadgets, books, clothes, perfume, toiletries and other household items that the sender thinks hi

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