http://www.addisfortune.com/index.htm http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit RSS Feed Creator Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0300 Tsegaye Ababa (right), chairman of the Ethiopian Horticulture Producers and Exporters Association (EHPEA), which organised the Horti-flora Ethiopia 2011 Horticultural Expo, and his daughter Makda, 10, hand Prime Minister Meles Zenawi a bunch of roses at the opening of the expo at Millennium Hall on Wednesday, March 23, 2011. Tsegaye’s other daughter, Rebeka, 13, is on the left, and Tefera Derebewe, Minister of Agriculture is on the far left. http://www.addisfortune.com/addisfortunenews.htm Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0300 The Ministry of Trade (MoT) has decided to collect all the edible palm oil from importers who ordered supplies from abroad at higher prices due to the international price increment, during a closed meeting with importers on Friday, March 25, 2011. http://www.addisfortune.com/Gov’t to Take over Imported Palm Oil.htm Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0300 An urgent instruction from the Ethiopian Revenues and Customs Authority (ERCA) for private companies to start using the multimodal transportation system (MTS) as of March 15, 2011, has caused uproar among freight forwarders who fear the letter indicates that the government plans to make the system obligatory for private companies. http://www.addisfortune.com/Freight Forwarders in Uproar over Multimodal Transport Instruction.htm Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0300 Leikun Brehanu, former president of Awash International Bank (AIB) SC; Mitiku Abeshu, former vice president of international banking at AIB; and eight other former bank employees in managerial, sales, and secretarial positions have been charged with mishandling letters of credit (LCs) and abusing their authority as bank employees. http://www.addisfortune.com/Prosecutors Charge Former AIB President .htm Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0300 Pittards Plc, a UK leather and leather products company, plans to open a factory in Addis Abeba that will produce industrial gloves and is expected to start production by August 2011, according to John Moriarty, managing director of Ethiopian Tannery SC, the local subsidiary of Pittards. http://www.addisfortune.com/UK Leather Firm Plans Addis Factory.htm Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0300 The Ethiopian Revenues and Customs Authority (ERCA) has instructed all sales register users to reinstall the software for their fiscal printers using only software developed by three companies certified by the authority, before April 8, 2011. http://www.addisfortune.com/Tax Auth. Limits Sales Register Software to 3 Developers.htm Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0300 Development Bank of Ethiopia (DBE) has sold a total of 24 million Br worth of bonds in the first two weeks of their being made available for sale. http://www.addisfortune.com/Dev’t Bank Sells 24m Br Worth of Gov’t Bonds in 2 Weeks.htm Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0300 KS International Trading Plc has sued Akakas Logistics Plc for a little over one million Birr for failure to fulfil formalities in the shipment of 25,000kg of dry ginger to Yemen, which was returned to Ethiopia by the buyer due to price depreciation. http://www.addisfortune.com/Exporter Sues Freight Forwarder for 1m Br.htm Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0300 Birhan Chora Kolfe Commercial Business Centre SC has sued 315 of its former shareholders for failing to replace their names with those of the new shareholders, at the Federal First Instance Court, Fifth Civil Bench. http://www.addisfortune.com/Firm Sues 315 Ex-shareholders for Failure to Sign Transfer.htm Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0300 For its planned future headquarters, the Bank of Abyssinia (BoA) announced the selection of the architectural design by Universal Consultants Plc, which also won a design competition for Commercial Bank of Ethiopia’s (CBE) future headquarters, at an award ceremony held at the Hilton Addis on March 19, 2011. http://www.addisfortune.com/Abyssinia Picks Same Designer as Commercial Bank for HQ.htm Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0300 The Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) has identified and added 1.9 million hectares to its land bank which it plans to lease out for development. http://www.addisfortune.com/Contractor Urges Court to Drop Contract Breach Charges .htm Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0300 The first four of the 500 buses that Anbessa City Bus Enterprise is in the process of acquiring commenced trial operations in Addis Abeba, on Thursday, March 24, 2011. http://www.addisfortune.com/Anbessa Receives Four Trial Bishoftu Buses.htmMon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0300 Find out about all the Entertainment news From Addis Fortune http://www.addisfortune.com/Fortune_Entertainment_news.htm Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0300 All the Brief News Articles from various papers http://www.addisfortune.com/newsinbrief.htm Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0300 Get all the Previous Volums of the News paper http://www.addisfortune.com/Addis_ Fortune Archive.htm Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0300