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In 1985, the first branch of LBC outside the country was established in San Francisco, California, in the United States. [1] Along with the opening of its US-based branch, the company introduced the famous “Balikbayan Box” [2] and their money remittance service to cater to Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW).
A balikbayan box (lit. ' repatriate box ' ) is a corrugated box containing items sent by overseas Filipinos (known as balikbayan literally "returnee to the country/nation"). Though often shipped by freight forwarders specializing in sending balikbayan boxes by sea, such boxes are also commonly brought by Filipinos returning to the Philippines ...
Balikbayan may refer to: Overseas Filipinos; Balikbayan box, a corrugated box containing items sent by overseas Filipinos This page was last edited on 12 ...
LBC (originally the London Broadcasting Company) is a British phone-in and talk radio station owned and operated by Global and based in its headquarters in London. It was the UK's first licensed commercial radio station , and began to broadcast on Monday 8 October 1973, [ 1 ] a week ahead of Capital Radio .
It can also be as exotic as a balikbayan box filled with gifts from a foreign country; it is an adaptation of the idea of the pasalubong for the Filipino diaspora. Unlike traditional pasalubong, these are not usually given in person but are sent by air freight. [21] [22] Piaya, one of the typical pasalubong from Bacolod
LBCI was founded in 1992 by acquiring the assets, liabilities and logo of LBC, an entity founded in 1985 during the Lebanese Civil War by the Lebanese Forces militia. [1] LBCI went global in 1996 when it launched its satellite channel LBC Al-Fadha'iya Al-Lubnaniya ( Arabic : الفضائية اللبنانية ) covering Lebanon, the Arab world ...
Kirby Corporation, headquartered in Houston, Texas is the largest tank barge operator in the United States, transporting bulk liquid products throughout the Mississippi River System, on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, along all three U.S. Coasts, and in Alaska and Hawaii.
KBXX (97.9 FM) is a commercial radio station in Houston, Texas.It airs an urban-leaning rhythmic contemporary radio format, mostly made up of hip-hop music and R&B.It is owned by Urban One as part of a five station cluster with KMJQ, KKBQ, KHPT, and KGLK.