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, 10 May 2010 00:00:00 +0300 With exactly two weeks left till Election Day, political parties have tightened their belts and are campaigning with full force. And, as one form of campaign, the debates among political parties were expected to leave their mark on the choice of the electorate. However, the lack of interest in the debates from the electorate, claiming that it lacks flavour, has been fervently insinuated. The opposition parties claim that the time allocated to them in the debates was inadequate, with the incumbent taking the lion’s share, but neither block seems to have hit the bull’s eye when it comes to augmenting the general feelings of the electorate. Some voters from different parts of the country are indifferent when it comes to the debates, which leaves the heat on the political parties, writes BRUH YIHUNBELAY, FORTUNE STAFF WRITER. http://www.addisfortune.com/addisfortunenews.htmMon, 10 May 2010 00:00:00 +0300Now that the political party contestants for the 2010 National Elections have had the chance to hash out their differences during nine televised debates, Fortune gave the four largest opposition parties, each with more than 200 candidates up for election, the chance to answer a set of questions on how they would manage the economy differently from the incumbent, the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), if they won control of the Federal Government in the coming elections, now only two weeks away. None of the televised debates have covered the issue of the economy directly. The four parties interviewed were Medrek, represented by Temesgen Zewdie; the All Ethiopia Unity Party (AEUP), represented by Hailu Shawel; the Ethiopian Democratic Party (EDP), represented by Mushe Semu; and the Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD), represented by Ayele Chamiso. http://www.addisfortune.com/OPPOSITION CAMP ON ECONOMY.htmMon, 10 May 2010 00:00:00 +0300United Bank won an 11.9 million Br court ruling against Getaneh Trading Plc; however, the court released a property, that had been frozen at the request of the bank, for foreclosure by Nib International Bank (NIB), another creditor of Getaneh. http://www.addisfortune.com/United Bank Wins 11.9m Br Ruling against Getaneh Trading.htmMon, 10 May 2010 00:00:00 +0300An Ethiopian delegation, led by Sufian Ahmed, minister of Finance and Economic Development (MoFED), returned from China after a successful negotiation for loans on the order of billions of dollars for large government projects, which are in the pipeline. http://www.addisfortune.com/Billions in Chinese Loans for Rail Ships Housing.htmMon, 10 May 2010 00:00:00 +0300The Addis Abeba Chamber of Commerce and Sectoral Association (AACCSA) is hiring consultancy firms to assist local companies in fulfilling the quality certification criteria of the International Standardisation Organisation (ISO). http://www.addisfortune.com/Addis Chamber Hiring Firms to Assist ISO Certification.htmMon, 10 May 2010 00:00:00 +0300The court has adjourned the Ayat case again, this time to May 11, 2010, after defence lawyers and prosecutors of the Ethiopian Revenues and Customs Authority (ERCA) debated the right of the latter to institute a charge on behalf of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) on illegal banking and money laundering. http://www.addisfortune.com/Jurisdiction Dispute Leads to Further Ayat Adjournment.htmMon, 10 May 2010 00:00:00 +0300The agency will be accountable to the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MoTI). However, neither the ministry, nor any other body, is to interfere in the agency’s adjudication, according to the bill. The adjudication will be based on the civil and criminal procedural codes of the country. http://www.addisfortune.com/New Agency to Ensure Consumer Protection.htmMon, 10 May 2010 00:00:00 +0300The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) secured 200 million Br from foreign funds and grants for the implementation of its policies, Desalegn Mesfin, deputy director of the EPA, told the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Affairs Standing Committee of Parliament when he presented the authority’s report on May 7, 2010. http://www.addisfortune.com/EPA Secures 200m Br in Foreign Funds.htmMon, 10 May 2010 00:00:00 +0300The UK publisher Macmillan misread a World Bank ban applied on it and walked away from a 3.3 million dollar textbook printing contract from the Ministry of Education (MoE); the contract went to the second-best offer at a higher price. http://www.addisfortune.com/Macmillan Bungles Ethiopian Textbook Bid.htmMon, 10 May 2010 00:00:00 +0300The Federal High Court rejected the claim of Nile Insurance SC to foreclose the share certificates of Kassabel Plc in the Bank of Abyssinia (BoA), which are worth 16 million Br, held as collateral for the guarantee bond given to Tana Transport Plc and Abebaw Desta. http://www.addisfortune.com/Nile Ins. to Return 16m Br in Abyssinia Shares to.htmMon, 10 May 2010 00:00:00 +0300Tsadkan G. Tinsae, former chief of staff of the Ethiopian Army, is now leading a group of businesspeople in establishing what would be the first brewery to be installed in the northern part of the country, Alamata Wereda, 600km north of Addis Abeba. http://www.addisfortune.com/Former Army Chief Leads Northern Brewery Venture.htmMon, 10 May 2010 00:00:00 +0300Find out about all the Entertainment news From Addis Fortunehttp://www.addisfortune.com/Fortune_Entertainment_news.htmMon, 10 May 2010 00:00:00 +0300All the Brief News Articles from various papershttp://www.addisfortune.com/newsinbrief.htmMon, 10 May 2010 00:00:00 +0300Get all the Previous Volums of the News paperhttp://www.addisfortune.com/Addis_ Fortune Archive.htmMon, 10 May 2010 00:00:00 +0300