|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Published On Jan 01, 2012 |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Subscribe |
|
 |
|
News Feed |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Column Feed |
|
 |
|
Facebook |
 |
|
Twitter |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Indians Remain Indomitable in Multimillion-dollar TextBook
Contracts |
|
|
|
A series of contracts, issued by the Ministry of
Education (MoE) to hire foreign printers for high
school textbooks, has gone to Indian companies, a
trend that has been consistent over the past three
years. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
City Bus to Send Team Abroad to Study GPS, Electronic
Ticketing |
|
|
|
Managers at the Anbessa Bus Transport Enterprise
have received positive nod from the company’s board
of directors two weeks ago to send a team of four
overseas to study the electronic ticketing method
and how global ... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
New Roads Corporation Gets in Full Gear |
|
|
|
A new state corporation branching out from the
Ethiopian Roads Authority (ERA) has been awarded its
second road project last week, five months after its
incorporation. Previously the operational arm of the
ERA, the Ethiopian Roads Construction Corporation (ERCC)
was formed in July 2011, ... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sheraton Loses Renowned Banquet Manager to Tragic Accident |
|
|
|
Tsegaye Deneke, a senior manager at the Sheraton
Addis responsible for banquets and outside catering,
died with three other passengers... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ministry Sees Spirited Interest from Int’l Firms to Survey
Scenery of Tana |
|
|
|
Close to 16 international and local consulting firms
have shown an interest in undertaking a lifesaving
topographic survey of Lake Tana, the largest lake... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Agenda |
|
|
|
In the absence of regulatory oversight from public
health agencies that... |
|
 |
|
| |
|
Read More |
| |
|
|
|
Editor's Note |
|
|
Every year has its own ups and downs for
policy makers. As pleasant... |
|
 |
|
| |
|
Read More |
| |
|
|
|
Commentary |
|
|
All indications are that the coming year will be an
economically bumpy year for all countries, argues
Nouriel Roubini, professor of economics at New York
University (NYU). |
|
Read More |
|
| |
|
| |
| Opinion |
|
|
Promoting a vibrant private sector might be good.
But, promoting a just cause is indisputably better.
As only moral judgments can identify what is right
and wrong,... |
|
| |
|
Read More |
| |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
"God
will not come to save them." |
|
Negasso Gidada (PhD), the former president of Ethiopia and newly
elected president of the Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ)
Party, an opposition party, said this speaking of the high
expectations of the public from opposition political parties as
the only means to voice dissent against the ruling party, the
Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF). The
public should mobilise for its rights, he argued in an exclusive
interview with Mesenazeria, an Amharic weekly newspaper,
published on December 27, 2011. |
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
|
|
|
 |
|
The ongoing famine in the Horn of Africa has put in sharp focus
the urgency to raise the continent’s food production through
improved agricultural innovation. This cannot be done without
reforming the continent’s research system by creating greater
synergies between research, training, extension, and
commercialisation.
Read
More |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
The United Nations’ recent 17th Conference of the Parties
(COP-17) in Durban, South Africa, succeeded in renewing the
Kyoto Protocol that aimed to reduce global greenhouse gas
emissions. But, the meeting also highlighted the two major
problems that plague international environmental negotiations.
Read
More |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Viewpoint |
|
If the world is to succeed in alleviating poverty and providing the
necessary framework for sustainable development on the planet, there
is no more pressing need than ensuring... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Fine Line |
|
If Bereket Simon, the spin-doctor of the
Revolutionary Democrats, has achieved his goal of
authoring the bestselling... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Out and About |
 |
|
|
Sellers
of sambusas, the deep-fried dough triangles filled
with,... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
