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, 11 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0300 After having spent one year and nine months back in prison for saying that she had not asked for the pardon that saw her and other opposition party members released from the prison time they had been sentenced to for inciting violence in the aftermath of the 2005 elections, Birtukan Midekssa, who was pardoned again on Wednesday, October 6, 2010, was met with a sight she did not expect when she arrived home.http://www.addisfortune.com/addisfortunenews.htmMon, 11 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0300The Addis Abeba City Administration banned construction of any kind by developers who had leased land next to the plot of the Addis Abeba Chamber of Commerce and Sectoral Association (AACCSA) for the construction of Addis Africa International Exhibition Centre in front of CMC. http://www.addisfortune.com/Chamber Neighbours Halt Building by Order .htmMon, 11 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0300One of the few remaining banks not to have chosen a vendor to implement its centralised, online, real-time, electronic (CORE) banking solutions, Cooperative Bank of Oromia (CBO), finally selected Infrasoft Tech Ltd and signed an agreement with the company on Wednesday, October 6, 2010. http://www.addisfortune.com/Vendor Signs to Install CORE Solutions for CBO .htmMon, 11 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0300The management board of the Development Bank of Ethiopia (DBE) has approved 5.1 billion Br to be given out in loans this year with the majority of it, 3.4 billion Br, allotted for development projects in the industrial sector. http://www.addisfortune.com/Dev’t Bank Allots 3.4b Br for Industrial Development Loans .htmMon, 11 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0300Sannati Agro Farm Enterprise (SAFE) Plc received a 10,000ht plot of land in Dimi District, Gambella Region, for the cultivation of rice, pulses, and cereals, from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MoARD) on October 1, 2010. http://www.addisfortune.com/Indian Firm Leases Gambella Plot for Rice .htmMon, 11 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0300Following a 1.3 million dollar deal that was signed with Geox, an Italian shoe and apparel manufacturer, on July 16, 2010, Ramsay Shoe Factory is to start production this month for 60,000 pairs of shoes that are to be shipped from November 31. http://www.addisfortune.com/Ramsay Signs 1-3m Deal for Italian Shoes .htmMon, 11 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0300Habesha Capital Services Plc (HCS) is to set up another share company, Habesha Construction Materials and Development (HCMD) SC, which it plans to inaugurate during a lunch ceremony at the Imperial Hotel on this Sunday, October 10, 2010. http://www.addisfortune.com/Habesha Establishes Construction Company .htmMon, 11 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0300The Addis Abeba City Government Labour Relations Board sentenced Getachew Eshete, general manager of the Addis Abeba Water and Sewerage Authority (AAWSA), to three months imprisonment for failing to implement the board’s decision in the case between the authority and the labour union. http://www.addisfortune.com/Labour Board Sentences Water Auth Manager .htmMon, 11 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0300Bank of Abyssinia (BoA) announced that it had registered a record profit of 140.6 million Br after taxes during the 2009/10 fiscal year, a 40.1pc increase from the previous year’s profit, during its 14th annual shareholders’ and 8th extraordinary meeting on Tuesday, October 5, 2010, at Hilton Addis. http://www.addisfortune.com/Abyssinia Beats Previous Profits by 40Pc .htmMon, 11 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0300The Addis Abeba City Administration is attempting to lease 2.3ht of land to investors for a third time, despite a disappointing response to the last two tenders from would-be developers. http://www.addisfortune.com/Lideta Land up for Lease for Third Time .htmMon, 11 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0300The promise Prime Minister Meles Zenawi made days after the May 2010 elections that saw his party win a landslide victory, to include opposition parties in major issues of the country, seemed to have been kept on Thursday, October 7, 2010, when Redwan Hussien, public mobilisation and participation advisor to the Prime Minister, held a meeting with nine opposition parties on the draft Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP). http://www.addisfortune.com/Opposition Gets to Comment on Five Year Plan .htmMon, 11 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0300Find out about all the Entertainment news From Addis Fortunehttp://www.addisfortune.com/Fortune_Entertainment_news.htmMon, 11 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0300All the Brief News Articles from various papershttp://www.addisfortune.com/newsinbrief.htmMon, 11 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0300Get all the Previous Volums of the News paperhttp://www.addisfortune.com/Addis_ Fortune Archive.htmMon, 11 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0300