Due to continued increase in the price of  sugar, the price of loaf of bread will also increase by P2 while the pan de sal will increase by P1. Some bakeries have the option of increasing the price or decreasing the size.
"Some of  our community bakery-members have started their price adjustments this week to cope with the spiraling cost of ingredients particularly sugar," said Leonardo Figueroa of the Philippine Federation of Bakers Association Inc.

Bakers could only hope for the stability of the price of flour.
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100 soldiers has been provided by the PNP to about 50 candidates in the coming 2010 May elections according to Armed Forces public affairs office chief Lt. Col. Romeo Brawner.
“As of January 31, the Comelec has approved the applications of 50 candidates who are to be provided with AFP security. That’s according to our Task Force HOPE (Honest Orderly and Peaceful Elections),” Brawner said in an interview.

More soldiers are expected to be deployed to other candidates who requested for bodyguards. A min.imum of two soldiers are allowed for each candidate
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Liberty Telecom Holding Inc. is set to launch its WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability  for Microwave Access) in the Philippines after 2 month free trial in the Philippines.
Liberty is expecting its WiMAX and Internet broadband services to bring the company back to profitability, as these are seen to account for more than 90% of its sales and subscriber base.

WiMAX can provide 33% faster speed which is up to 1Mbps compared to other commercially available WiFi Services. It is a cost-efficient alternative to cable and digital subscribe line or DSL .
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A Chocolate theme park is about to open in Beijing, China next week, January 29. The “chocolate wonderland” has a size of 20,000-square-meter. Final touches are being done on this chocolate theme park on the Olympic Green near the Bird’s Nest Stadium. It has the life size replicas of the Terracotta Warriors and a section of the Great Wall.
"Even though chocolate in China is not as popular as it is in Western countries, we hope to promote the chocolate culture and market in China," Zheng Yaoting, general manager of the …

A male person called the Comelec’s hotline at around 9:55 am, Wednesday morning. The caller talked about a certain “Mirriam”. Officials assume that the caller is possibly talking about  Mirriam Defensor Santiago as she was then disqualified as reelectionist.
"But I don’t see how this is connected with the disqualification case [against Santiago]," Jimenez said.
Virginia Bayer, an employee of the poll body’s Education and Information Department (EID), said that a male caller called the Comelec hotline at around 9:55 a.m. He angrily told Bayer that a bomb was planted at the …

The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board or the LTFRB issued a memorandum that orders public transport drivers and operators to put a “No Smoking” sign inside their vehicles and terminals starting on January 7, 2010.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), second hand smoke or a smoke which has been emitted by a smoker is 4 times more toxic that direct smoking. This means that the people around the smoker is at higher risk of having lung cancer.
The WHO’s 2009 Global Tobacco Epidemic Report estimated that 600,000 people around …

The reshuffle of the Bureau of Customs’s Personnel are being done before the coming May elections, specifically the agency’s Enforcement and Security Service which include an official in Subic Bay who was involved on a sexual harassment case.
The reshuffle has been signed by Customs Commissioner Napoleon Morales.
Capt. Ramon Policarpio of Subic Bay will replace Port of Manila chief Jose Yunchongco. Yunchongco will still be the chief of Customs of Police Department and deputy director of the Enforcement and Security Service.
But Policarpio has been involved in a sexual harassment case, …

Commission on Elections or Comelec earlier said that they are confident that the election results from the poll machines will not be hacked. They believe that the websites are secure inspite of the reports of the hacked national govenment agencies like the DOH (Department of Health) and DSWD (Department of Social Welfare and Development).
Comelec officials said that they are constantly monitoring on their websites.
“In case this happens that the Comelec website is hacked, there are still other servers where the data may be accessed,” said Commissioner …

The World’s Tallest Skyscraper which can now be found in Dubai will open on Monday. Burj Dubai’s exact height was not revealed, but they say that the tower exceeds 800 meters, which makes it higher than Taiwan’s Taipei 101 tower with the height of 508 meters.
Bill Baker is the one who designed Burj Dubai.
"We thought that it would be slightly taller than the existing tallest tower of Taipei 101. (Emaar) kept on asking us to go higher but we didn’t know how high we could go," he said.

"We were …

If you happen to receive emails that your non machine readable passport is not valid, well you need to read this post because UI just read from GMA NEws.tv that it is still valid and you could use this as a travel document whereever you go. refer to this post
Filipinos can still use their old green or maroon non-machine-readable passports for foreign travel until their expiry.
This was clarified by Philippine Vice Consul to Dubai Edwin Mendoza in an interview with Khaleej Times after receiving queries from members of the Filipino …