President Aquino orders BOC not to open balikbayan boxes

MANILA, Philippines, August 25 (Eagle News) — After a meeting with his close adviser, President Benigno S. Aquino III asked Bureau of Customs (BOC)  Chief Albert Lina not to open the balikbayan boxes sent by overseas Filipino workers and to use mobile x-ray machines and drug-sniffing dogs instead.

(Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)