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, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0300 The flight data recorder, a.k.a black box, of ET 409 was located after four days of extensive search on Thursday, January 28, 2010, after radio frequency signals were detected from a depth of 1,300 metres under the Mediterranean Sea. Until our press time on Saturday morning, however, retrieving the box was reported to have eluded the search team. The black box, say Lebanese officials, might be hard to retrieve if it has been separated from the fuselage of the B737-800. It would take days to retrieve the box anyway, said Ghazi Aridi, Lebanese minister for Transport; the box was beyond the reach of divers and would require sea-bed combing submarines, he was quoted by the Daily Star, a newspaper of Lebanon. The accident which took the aircraft down into the Mediterranean Sea purportedly left no survivors among the 90 people who were on board, and so far only 25 bodies have been discovered, including an agent of Ethiopia’s security agency (antihijack personnel) who was aboard ET 409. The Ethiopian passengers were mostly domestics in Beirut, who were on their way to visit family here. One of them was released from prison in Lebanon, after kept under custody for nine months. http://www.addisfortune.com/addisfortunenews .htmMon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0300The two Indian companies that were to construct the Tendaho Sugar Factory are being threatened by the government with losing the job if they do not start the work that is already two years overdue. http://www.addisfortune.com/Indian Firms Warned over Tendaho Sugar Inaction.htmMon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0300The value of the Birr against the dollar has become further devalued by five per cent, after Ethiopia's macro-economic team chaired by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi made the decision on Friday, January 30, 2009. http://www.addisfortune.com/Birr Declines Further against Mighty Dollar .htmMon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0300Many registration stations are seen idle most of the time with one or two people showing up for registration at an interval of several minutes. Looking bored, those who register the voters and the observers try to make good with their group conversations and coffee time. It seemed all registration stations were equipped with charcoal furnaces, traditional clay coffee pot and all the materials they needed for coffee making. http://www.addisfortune.com/Forthcoming Elections Underfoot .htmMon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0300The Ministry of Works and Urban Development (MoWUD) has ordered 50 trucks from China at a cost of 75 million Br for the state owned Weyra Transport SC for the transport of petroleum. The money was made available through a loan agreement between Weyra and the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE). http://www.addisfortune.com/Ministry to Buy Petroleum Transporters at 75 million Br.htmMon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0300Weh-weh, weh-weh, goes the azmari on his masenko. The Amharic word azmari comes from the word azemere, which means singing (for God). In fact the masenko was used in the time of St. Yared, the famous Ethiopian songwriter, for such purposes. But its history undoubtedly goes back much further than St. Yared of the Sixth Century. http://www.addisfortune.com/Astounding Azmari Bet Strikes Back .htmMon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0300Yadot Business Group Plc (YBG) is selling water well drilling equipment to save the foreclosure of property collateralised for a loan of 23 million Br granted by the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) nine years ago. http://www.addisfortune.com/Yadot Fights Again to Regain Lost Ground to Debt.htmMon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0300A tripartite financial and technical support agreement was signed on January 25, 2009, at the German House located in Kazanchis, Kirkos District, Addis Abeba, between the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MoARD), German Technical Cooperation (gtz) and the Israeli Center for International Cooperation regarding the implementation of irrigation projects in Amhara, Oromia, Tigray and the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples regional states. http://www.addisfortune.com/GTZ, Israelis to Support Irrigation Dev’t.htmMon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0300For a year, since February 8, 2009, MoWUD imported 12 million quintals at close to 90 million dollars. Five million quintals was sold to the market through the Merchandise Wholesale and Import Trade Enterprise (MWITE), while the rest was used for the housing development agency and other government projects. http://www.addisfortune.com/Gov’t to Cease Cement Imports.htmMon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0300Duka Travel, Tour & Lodges S.C., which was established in September 2009, elected nine board members on Sunday, January 24, 2010, during a meeting at Intercontinental Hotel. http://www.addisfortune.com/Local Travel Agency Goes Public .htmMon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0300Find out about all the Entertainment news From Addis Fortunehttp://www.addisfortune.com/Fortune_Entertainment_news.htmMon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0300All the Brief News Articles from various papershttp://www.addisfortune.com/newsinbrief.htmMon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0300Get all the Previous Volums of the News paperhttp://www.addisfortune.com/Addis_ Fortune Archive.htmMon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0300