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Board reject Agency’s plan to sell houses
 

Starbucks, gov’t talks still fluid


Chief economic advisor to the PM Neway Gebereab with Yanni Georgalis of Moplaco Trading and organizer of Eastern African Fine Coffee Exporters Association Convention at the Sheraton Addis on Thursday February 15, 2007

By Tedla Yeneakal

Company officials of Starbucks Corporation announced on Friday, February 16 at the Sheraton Addis that they have not yet agreed to recognize Ethiopia’s ownership of coffee trademarks . This follows a government official’s announcement that Starbucks executives had reached an agreement after conferring with Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.
Dub Hay, Starbucks' senior vice president of coffee procurement told journalists at a press conference that they have not signed any agreement pertaining to the government’s claims of coffee trademark recognition.

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ETC assets under study

By Groum Abate

Assets of the Ethiopian Telecommun- ications Corporation (ETC) are being collated to gauge the value of the corporation, a move which is said will pave the way for privatization.
ETC’s net assets were estimated at 303 million dollars as of 30, June 2001. Since then the company has concluded major projects and acquisitions, which have substantially increased its market evaluation. Experts in the communication sector speculate that the corporation could be worth a couple of billion dollars at present.

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Board appointments decentralized to ministries

By Groum Abate

The Prime Minister’s office has decentralized appointments of board chair persons and ordinary members to their respective control bodies.
Sources told Capital that the office used to appoint and relieve board chair persons and ordinary members for governmental institutions and organizations.

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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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Introducing Addis Ababa University’s Oldest Building
 

Professor Richard Pankhurst is the son of Miss Sylvia Pankhurst, the great British suffragette and advocate of Ethiopia during and after Fascist Italy's occupation of Ethiopia. Professor Pankhurst taught for many years at Addis Ababa University and has written widely on Ethiopian history and culture. He is also the founder of Addis Ababa University's Institute of Ethiopian Studies and a founding member of the Axum Obelisk Return Committee and the Association for the Return of the MaqdalaEthiopian Treasures (AFROMET)

 
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Art & Culture


Unique exhibition unveiled


Animated is alive !
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Soul imprints for the next generation

The New Ethiopian Millennium Festival is expected to be Africa 's first continental celebration and a milestone event in Ethiopian and African history.

Organizationally, the year long celebrations kicking off on September 12, 2007 are a mammoth task which deserve and is getting growing support both at home and internationally.

The Ethiopian Millennium Festival National Secretariat is the body entrusted with making a success of the historic occasion. It seems like the secretariat is in the very capable hands of Ato Seyoum Bereded, its Director-General.

Ato Seyoum believes that this millennium should be celebrated in a manner that would leave its imprints for the coming generation. “The celebration of this millennium will be a documented fact, so we have to leave our imprints for coming generations,”

Seyoum took time out of his busy schedule to talk to Tesfu Telahoun and Eskinder Michael of Capital on the significance of the mellennium... that it is much more than a festive occasion but rather, a time for Ethiopia and Africa to take stock.

 

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SOME PENDING ISSUES OF DEMOCRACY IN ETHIOPIA
Root Causes of Under-development in Ethiopia ?

The series of lectures in the academic year of 2006/7 has a bread and will continue on 23 January 2007 with a talk of H.E. Ato Arkebe Oqubay, States-Minister for Works and and Urban Development on "The Role of Cities as Centers for Economic Growth“.

In the meanwhile CAPITAL, media partner of the series, will come back on contributions of the first series. On 27 th June Dr. Negaso Gidada, former President of FDRE, spoke about “the root-causes of underdevelopment.”

 

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