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, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300 As the countdown to the date of the implementation comes to an end tomorrow, December 21, 2009, the ambiance in Addis Abeba is electric as the new traffic regulations are ushered in. The streets are abuzz with commotion to acquire mobile phone accessories, though the law forbids anytype of phone use while operating any vehicle. Seatbelts, too, are in high demand as the city hosts a large number of automobiles that go without. Drivers never seemed to care to maintain or even keep their safety belts. Addis Abeba buckles up under the shadow of old habits of road indiscipline dying hard. http://www.addisfortune.com/addisfortunenews .htmMon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300Business owners and their employees, 30 in number, were arrested last week by the Ethiopian Revenue and Customs Authority (ERCA) for alleged value-added tax (VAT) violations. http://www.addisfortune.com/Revenue Authority Nabs 30 VAT Suspects .htmMon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300Failing to secure loans from the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) for the consultancy of the power interconnection between Ethiopia and Kenya, the two governments have decided to cover the 3.5 million dollar cost from their own pockets. http://www.addisfortune.com/Kenya, Ethiopia to Study Electric Link sans Loan .htmMon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300The next five-year strategic plan of the government is being prepared, and government institutions have been given until the end of January 2010 to submit their individual plans for the period. http://www.addisfortune.com/Gov’t Working on Next 5yr Plan .htmMon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300Hiber Sugar Factory S.C. and BDFC have started land clearing at a cost of one million Birr to start growing seed cane for the sugarcane plantation in Jawi Wereda in the Tana Beles Basin of the Amhara Regional State. http://www.addisfortune.com/Joint Venture Clears Land for Sugarcane .htmMon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300São Paulo, Helsinki, Addis Abeba and Ho Chi Minh City may be located in continents wide apart: South America, Europe, Africa and Asia while the list of their differences may also be numerous. But these four cities share one nuisance in common: waste. http://www.addisfortune.com/Addis Abeba Seeks Help for New Landfill in Copenhagen .htmMon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300The Dallol Depression, one of the lowest places on earth, found in the Afar Regional State, is to get a gravel road which will ease the extraction of the rich reserves of potash deposited in its soils. http://www.addisfortune.com/Defence Enterprise to Build Dallol Road.htmMon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300The road extends from Hagere Mariam through Yabelo to Mega and is part of the Mombassa-Nairobi-Addis Abeba Road. The construction will be supervised by the Ethiopian Roads Authority (ERA). http://www.addisfortune.com/Drive to Mombassa Eased by $85m Loan .htmMon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300The newly established private commercial bank, Abay Bank, is awaiting a nod from regulators at the central bank for endorsement of its board of directors and president. http://www.addisfortune.com/Abay Bank Awaits Nod from NBE over Directors, President Appts .htmMon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300Tiret, the Amhara Nation Democratic Movement (ANDM) endowment, signed a 56.7 million Br loan agreement with the Development Bank of Ethiopia (DBE) for a mobile phone assembly plant to be established in Bahir Dar, while it is preparing to seek more loans for the malt factory that is in the pipeline. http://www.addisfortune.com/Amhara Endowment Gets Loan for Phone Assembly .htmMon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300Find out about all the Entertainment news From Addis Fortunehttp://www.addisfortune.com/Fortune_Entertainment_news.htmMon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300All the Brief News Articles from various papershttp://www.addisfortune.com/newsinbrief.htmMon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300Get all the Previous Volums of the News paperhttp://www.addisfortune.com/Addis_ Fortune Archive.htmMon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300