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Tax Auth. Charges Nyala Motors’ 10 for 14m Br

The Ethiopian Revenues and Customs Authority (ERCA) prosecutors charged 10 employees of Nyala Motors SC who were allegedly involved in tax evasion of nearly 14 million Br.

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Prosecutors to Go After Properties of Ayele, Kebede

Prosecutors of the Ethiopian Revenues and Customs Authority (ERCA) are to appeal the ruling of the Federal High Court against prominent businessmen, Kebede Tesera and Ayele Debela, who were sentenced to 20 and 22 years of imprisonment, respectively, and had some of their properties confiscated.

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Getu Gelete Faces Criminal Charges

Getu Gelete, owner of Getu Commercial Center and former general manager and shareholder of GetAs International Plc, was charged with fraud by federal prosecutors on July 23, 2010, upon a complaint from Helen Anbesso.

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NBE to Call Lion’s Shareholders' Meeting

National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) is to call a shareholders’ meeting of Lion International Bank (LIB) to elect a new board of directors after NBE rejected the list of members sent to it for approval on Wednesday, July 21, 2010, citing many breaches of law; it ordered the previous board of directors to resume work until a new board is elected.
 

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Habesha Looking to Buy State Brewery

The newly formed Habesha Breweries SC is to make an offer for one of the three state owned breweries, Meta Abo, Harar, or Bedele, that are to be put up for auction this year by the Privatisation and Public Enterprises Supervising Agency (PPESA).

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Agenda    

Graduation is a time of celebration for both the graduates and their families, ...

 
   

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Editor's Note  

Parliament, as the legislative arm, is the highest branch of government.

 
   

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Commentary  

Ethiopia has underperformed in international trade. In order to change its game, policymakers need to adopt a trade-friendly policy framework, reduce the costs of doing business across borders, and make it easier to form businesses, argues Dan Ciuriak, a consulting economist at Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. 

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Opinion  

For the very first time in history, there were open political debates between the governing party and its opposition counterparts, there were peaceful public rallies with millions of participants staged in Addis Abeba and major regional cities (both ..

   

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  THE FINE LINE  
 

Here it goes again; regime change in Somali Regional State, one of the half dozen over the past decade. Claiming notoriety for such political turmoil, the regional state and a few of its peers among peripheral states in

   

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"The only good thing is that there is a Parliament in Ethiopia but it is hard to say if it is performing its duties. "

Bulcha Demekssa, (MP-OFDM) and a retiring politician, said in his speech during the fifth special, and last session of Parliament on July 7, 2010.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Time to Halt UNAIDS Gravy Train

 
 

In his address to this week’s international AIDS Conference in Vienna, Bill Clinton told some home truths about aid for HIV: “In too many countries, too much money pays for too many people to go to too many meetings and get on too many airplanes to do too much technical assistance.”  More

 

Satisfying Late Night Urges for Burgers

 
 

Restaurants generally close early, leaving late-night party-goers hungry. Yet, despite the absence of fast food franchises, Addis Abeba boasts some excellent hamburgers that are available around the clock, writes MIREILLE...... More

 
 
 
View Point

The end of the Cold War was quite a phenomenon; it seemed as if the once formidable Eastern Bloc was in total disarray while the situation unfolded in favour ...

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Life Matters
 

It would be foolish to pass up yet another opportunity this year to write about the contemporary history ....

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View From Arada
 

What serious business could old codgers have to compel them to rise from bed early in the morning, ..

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