After getting more than 800 million Facebook users and earning $4.2 billion in 2011, Facebook, the social networking giant, will file its IPO (initial public offering) of stocks on Wednesday, February 2, 2012. The talks is all over the internet now. And it is said that Facebook aims to raise $10 billion more thus expanding its value up to $100 billion.

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January 29, 2012 Roll Back Seaoil Diesel = 90 cents / liter Unleaded Gasoline = 15 cents / liter Premium Gasoline = 15 cents / liter Kerosene = 70 cents / liter Eastern Petroleum Diesel = 90 cents / liter Unleaded Gasoline = 15 cents / liter Premium Gasoline = 15 cents / liter Kerosene [...]

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It was reported that according to the Banko Sentral ng Pilipinas or BSP the old currencies will be demonetized by 2013. So, starting in New Year of 2014, we will not be using the old currencies anymore but the new currencies with the denominations of PhP20, PhP 50, PhP 100, PhP 200, PhP 500 and [...]

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On Sunday evening at around 6:00 o’clock, January 15, 2012, a 5-storey residential building in the Fassouh neighborhood (Ashrafiyeh district) in Beirut, Lebanon collapsed killing at least 27 people. The incident has revealed how the nearly 6-decade old building was built. It can be seen from the rubbles that the building has no metal grid. [...]

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SSS revealed that they will be offering amnesty program to members with unsettled loans. Through this program, they will only be paying the principal and the interest without paying fully the penalties. The program will start on April and the deadline will be on September 30. But beneficiaries of the delinquent borrower who died without settling their loans can still file for the amnesty until March 2013.

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On January 2, 2012 at around 6AM, a fire broke out at the acid plant facility of the Philippine Smelting and Refining Corporation or PASAR. There were 11 fire trucks from PASAR’s own fire fighters, its neigboring fertilizer plant Philippine Phosphate Fertilizer Corp., and from the towns of Isabel, Merida, Kananga, and Ormoc City fought to control the fire. The fire was declared under control at 9AM.

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Are you using French-made implants on your breasts (or testicle if you’re male)? If you are not using implants, then you’re safe. But if you have implants, then you better check them whether they are made in France, particularly by the Poly Implants Prostheses company which is known as PIP.

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The owner of the Sushi Zanmai restaurant chain, Kyushi Kimura who is the president of the Kiyomura Co., paid 56.49 million yen ($736,000, £472,125) for the 342 kg bluefin Tuna at Tsukiji fish market’s first auction of the year.

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The Bureau of Internal Revenue filed a PhP 240 million tax evasion charge against the supplier of Jollibee Food Corporation at the Department of Justice. Great Wall Promotionals Co. Ltd. or simply known as Great Wall is the supplier of the JFC of kitchen utensils and plastic table wares.

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On Wednesday, Senator Ramong “Bong” Revilla Jr. criticized the DBM (Department of Budget and Management) report which contains erroneous facts regarding the senator’s priority development assistance funds.

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