http://www.addisfortune.com/index.htm Addisfortune is the Largest English Weekly in Ethiopia. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit RSS Feed Creator Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0300 Built by the Italian company Salini Construction, the hydropower station does not have its own dam but gets water from Gilgel Gibe I after going through a 26km tunnel. The powerhouse has four turbines, which generate 420MW of electric power, making it not only the largest power generation station in operation, but also a rescuer for the recent power supply crises the country has been confronted with. With annual demand for power increasing by over 20pc, experts project that the government cannot afford to be complecent. Perhaps Meles is contemplating his next move. http://www.addisfortune.com/addisfortunenews .htmMon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0300Ethiopia has become a market for owners of high bandwidth fibre optic cable systems; at least four foreign companies are aiming to get all or a slice of this vast potential market, reliable sources disclosed. http://www.addisfortune.com/Global Firms Vie over Ethiopia’s Link to the World.htmMon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0300A memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed by four foreign companies and the Ethiopian Railway Corporation for the launching of a study on the planned construction of a new railway line up to the border of Djibouti, at a projected cost of 1.5 billion dollars. http://www.addisfortune.com/Gov’t Signs $1.5b New Railway Study MoU .htmMon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0300The Development Bank of Ethiopia (DBE), which shed all but one of its board members, requested an additional 1.4 billion Br capital injection from the federal government, Fortune learned. http://www.addisfortune.com/DBE Hopes for Additional 1.4b Br Capital Boost .htmMon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0300The Confederation of Ethiopian Trade Unions (CETU) is to finance the construction of a four-storey building designed for mixed use in Hawassa (Awassa) Town, the seat of the Southern, Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Regional State (SNNPR), 276km south of Addis Abeba. http://www.addisfortune.com/CETU to Fund Building at Prime Location in Hawassa.htmMon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0300The construction permit was given to the company on Tuesday, January 12, 2010, following hours of long discussion between Mohammed Ali Al-Amoudi, Mayor Kuma Demeksa and Mekuria Haile, city general manager, the previous day, Haile Assegdie, one of the top officials in the family of companies owned by Ali Al-Amoudi, told Fortune. http://www.addisfortune.com/Construction Standstill at Piassa to be Lifted in 15 Days .htmMon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0300Holland Car Plc is making preparations to take its car assembly process a step further by shifting to complete knockdown (CKD), where all the parts will be imported in pieces to be welded, painted and assembled in Ethiopia, it says. http://www.addisfortune.com/Holland Car’s Assembly Line to Evolve.htmMon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0300The targeted completion of the construction of the new African Union (AU) headquarters and conference hall and the five star hotel at a plot beside the African Union premises has been postponed by one year to 2012. http://www.addisfortune.com/AU Waits One More Year for New HQ, Hotel .htmMon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0300The Addis Abeba City Administration has increased the fees it charges residents for cleaning the city from five per cent of their water utility bills to 20pc as of February 2010; the extra payment going towards collecting household garbage. http://www.addisfortune.com/City Ups Water Bill for Waste Disposal .htmMon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0300Spintex, an Indian textile company, has received 50ht of land at the Kombolcha Industrial Zone in the Amhara Regional State to construct what could become the largest textile factory with five times the capacity of the current leader. http://www.addisfortune.com/gtz Exhibits 13 University Projects .htmMon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0300Find out about all the Entertainment news From Addis Fortunehttp://www.addisfortune.com/Fortune_Entertainment_news.htmMon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0300All the Brief News Articles from various papershttp://www.addisfortune.com/newsinbrief.htmMon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0300Get all the Previous Volums of the News paperhttp://www.addisfortune.com/Addis_ Fortune Archive.htmMon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0300