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  Click here for Last Week's Issue Updated August 27, 2007


Liberating the world from crude oil slavery

By Andualem Sisay

Will the world continue being slave to crude oil? Mr. Premdut Doongoor, who advocates the generation of fuel from waste plastics, doesn't think so. Mr. Doongoor, former Energy Minister of Mauritius, strongly believes that bio fuel is the sole solution for a world that seeks "world energy peace".
Since he became Ambassador of Mauritius to Ethiopia, the Commission of the African Union and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa eight months ago, he has been pushing the African Union towards what he called the novel discovery of Indian Professor, Ms Alka Umesh Zadgaonkare.

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Holland Car to roll out fancier car

By Andualem Sisay

Based on the high demand from customers, Holland Car plc, the first car assembly in Ethiopia, has announced that it is going to assemble a second model and named after the great Abay (Blue Nile).
Abay, with a 1.3 engine will be offered at ETB 140,000 and one year or 25,000 km warranty as of mid September 2007, according to Engineer Tadesse Tessema, 50 per cent shareholder of the Ethio-Dutch company.

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Awash in the black despite controversy

By Kirubel Tadesse

Awash International Bank S.C has announced that during the first six months of 2007, it has shown better performance compared to the same period last year. In a press release the bank issued on August 25, 2007, after a two day half year management meeting held on August 24 and 25 at Ghion Hotel, the bank explained that general savings showed a twenty one percent growth and general credit record registered a thirty four percent increase. It added that the overall income of the bank also showed an increment of forty nine percent and profits before tax grew by sixty eight percent.

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Addis Stranger

Sereyet: Genuine Suspense


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A friend in need


Ambassador Branzaru graduated from the faculty of Energetics of Bucharest Polytechnic Institute, mastering in Electro- Energetics. Subsequent to his scientific work, he entered diplomatic service in 1976 and served as Third and Second Secretary at the Romanian Embassy in Paris, France. He went on to be a distinguished career diplomat and from March 5, 2007 Ambassador Branzaru has been appointed Charge d’Affaires en pied – Head of Mission of Romania in Ethiopia and Permanent Representative to the A.U.
In many respects, the Republic of Romania is a rather unique European country. Often described as a. Latin island in a Slavic ocean, it is with Italy, France, Spain and Portugal a member of the Council of Latin Nations.
Dacia. as it used to be called in ancient times, was the most Romanized of the many provinces of the Roman Empire. Present Romanian language and culture derives from heavily Latin Proto-Romanian and closely resembles Italian in intonation and vocabulary.....


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Entreprenuer Profile is Capital’s youngest page and is already eliciting warm reviews. We have received dozens of e-mails, scores of letters and a clamor of phone calls of appreciation, suggestions and ideas which will all contribute for a better Entrepreneur Profile strengthened by your continued participation.

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Ethiopian schoolboy's campaign for return of historical artefacts

 

The Return of looted antiquities to their country of origin is a matter that is of great concern to students of Ethiopian history and to this ancient nation in general.
Following several decades of unsuccessful attempts by a procession of regimes and unkept promises by the ‘custodian’ nation, the looted Aksum obelisk was finally returned to Ethiopia in April 2005.

 

 
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Social mobilization against sanctioned violence against girls and women

“Democracy and the Social Question“: The sixth lecture in this academic year was given by Bogalech Gebre, Director of Kembata Women’s Self-Help Centre, an NGO working in the south of Ethiopia. The lecture took place on Tuesday, 27 March, in Goethe-Institute Gebrekristos Desta Centre.

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