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, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0300 The administration of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has an ambition of building the national economy at the conclusion of its new five-year plan, dubbed the Transformation and Growth Plan, in a manner seen never before. For a government with the track record of running record high federal budgets, mobilising the largest ever domestic taxes, as well as registering one billion and two billion dollar thresholds in export revenues, in the past five years, this may not be an initiative bordering “insanity.” http://www.addisfortune.com/addisfortunenews.htmMon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0300Despite recent deluges of heavy rain, rivers roaring with water, and dams filling up, the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo) is still unable to deliver power to its clients across the country in an uninterrupted and sustainable way.http://www.addisfortune.com/Lag in Transmission Lines Compels Systematic Power Shedding by EEPCo.htmMon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0300A bill allowing for private operators in the transport and delivery of import and export goods is to be debated by stakeholders on Tuesday, August 17, 2010. http://www.addisfortune.com/Maritime Authority to Invite Private Multimodal Ops.htmMon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0300The Federal High Court dropped the criminal charges against Getu Gelete related to the allegedly failed transfer of land on Thursday, August 12, 2010. http://www.addisfortune.com/Getu Gelete Free from Criminal Charges.htmMon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0300Ethiopian Shipping Lines (ESL) made an unprecedented profit of 641.4 million Br, it announced; which was 154pc of its projection for the last fiscal year. http://www.addisfortune.com/ESL Earns 641.4m Br Profit.htmMon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0300The Ethiopian Revenues and Customs Authority (ERCA) reported collecting 35.6 billion Br from tax and non-tax revenues in the 2009/10 fiscal year, beating its target by a billion Birr and contributing 51.2pc of the national budget. http://www.addisfortune.com/Tax Auth Earns 35-6b Br.htmMon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0300The Small and Microfinance Enterprise Agency (SMEA) of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples (SNNP) region allocated 100 million Br for loans to be given to newly established Small and Microfinance Enterprises (SMEs) during the 2010/11 fiscal year. http://www.addisfortune.com/South to Dole out 100m Br to New Micro Businesses.htmMon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0300The Privatisation and Public Enterprises Supervising Agency (PPESA) is auctioning Ethiopia Hotel again, from September, claiming that Bazeto Industry Trading Plc has failed to make the down payment on time. http://www.addisfortune.com/Ethiopia Hotel Back on Auction Floor.htmMon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0300Zemen Bank expects to pick a vendor in mid-September for the supply of interactive voice recognition (IVR), short message service (SMS), and mobile banking. http://www.addisfortune.com/Zemen to Select High-tech Banking Vendor Next Month.htmMon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0300Atekilt Terra, the biggest fruit and vegetable market in Addis Abeba, has two companies, Arada Vegetable Association and Bis Fruit & Vegetable Agro Industry SC, scrambling to be the first involved in its redevelopment. http://www.addisfortune.com/Two Agro Firms Vie for Atekilt Terra Land.htmMon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0300The auction last week by the Development Bank of Ethiopia (DBE) to sell two flower farms, Menahem Tizazu and Menagesha, was canceled due to a lack of offers. http://www.addisfortune.com/Dev’t Bank Short on Bids for Flower Farms .htmMon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0300Find out about all the Entertainment news From Addis Fortunehttp://www.addisfortune.com/Fortune_Entertainment_news.htmMon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0300All the Brief News Articles from various papershttp://www.addisfortune.com/newsinbrief.htmMon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0300Get all the Previous Volums of the News paperhttp://www.addisfortune.com/Addis_ Fortune Archive.htmMon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0300