Tuesday April 6' 2004

 

 

Ghion Hotel

Saudi billionaire to buy Ghion Hotel
 

By Groum Abate

Saudi billionaire, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who is listed as the world’s sixth wealthiest entrepreneur by Forbes magazine two years ago, has revealed his interest to government officials for the full acquisition of Ghion Hotel and its chain of hotels.
The businessman, with personal assets that are valued at 23.4 billion dollars is Saudi’s richest man. He controls worldwide investments worth billions of dollars under Kingdom Holding Corporation-his investment arm.

Ethiopian soccer Olympic dream shattered

     

AACC appoints acting secretary general

City government in dilemma

Negotiations between CBE and Amalgamated fails

Assassinations Plc
 

Emirates Airlines: New threat for Ethiopian

“Ethio-Kimono”

Business and the Law

Hagbes defeats party owned enterprise in lawsuit

Reversed brain drain and remittances

Partrice Lumumba

First & last elected leader of the Congo

The Italian cultural institute screened the film “Lumumba” in Addis Ababa last week. This week, as if on queue, there was a coup attempt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo where much of the east remains unstable with many armed gangs roaming around 34 years after independence and 33 years after Belgium and the US murdered the first elected Prime Minister of that troubled land.