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  Click here for Last Week's Issue Updated July 2, 2007


Tsegaye Abebe, EHPEA chairperson, Addisu Legesse, Deputy P.M., Dr Aberra Deressa, State Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development and Tewodros Adhanom, Minister of Health, at launch ceremony of a code of conduct for sustainable flower production, at the Hilton Addis, June 29,2007.

China-Africa relationship alarms former US Ambassador“ …what’s the alternative?” Business community

By Andualem Sisay

Former United States Ambassador to Ethiopia (1996-1999), David Shinn, discussed with the business community on the China-Africa relationship on Thursday, June 28, 2007 at the Addis Ababa Chamber of Commerce and Sectoral Associations (AACCSA).
The former ambassador, who is now a scholar at George Washington University, is visiting Ethiopia as part of his program of collecting facts on the China-Africa relationship from seven African countries, for a book he is preparing with a colleague.


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Facility to enhance private sector competitiveness

By Andualem Sisay

The Ethiopian government is to introduce a new instrument, the Ethiopian Competitiveness Facility, to better address the needs of the private sector in their effort to become internationally competitive.
The facility will have different windows to address the development of comprehensive export capabilities both at firm and industry levels, including the development of clusters and institutions that support market linkages.

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City auctions apartments for 7,000 br/sqm
To draw winners for 2nd round condominium allocation

By Groum Abate

The Addis Ababa Caretaker Administration has auctioned over 50 G+1 shared apartments near the CMC area.
The auction where many interested parties participated on and which took place at the City Hall on Thursday, June 28, recorded a price of 7,000 birr per square meter as the highest bid.

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Daughters of the Sun

Zema Lasta's piorneer tunes sing out!


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“Raw resources alone will not change conditions in Africa”
Dr. Osama O. Awadelkarim

As technology advances, it is all about making components ever smaller units until they can only be seen by the msot powerful microscopes. Nanotechnology is the science of tomorrow, here, today. It is the delicate art that manufactures machines and computers that are smaller than the head of a pin.
Osama O. Awadelkarim is a Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics and Associate Director for the Center of Nanotechnology Education and Utilization at the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Awadelkarim has authored/coauthored close to 200 articles in journals, books, chapters in books, and conference proceedings. Born in 1954 he is currently a Jefferson Science Fellow and a Senior Science Advisor in the African Affairs Bureau and the Oceans and International Environment and Scientific Affairs Bureau at the U. S. Department of State. Married to his Professor wife, Dr. Awadelkarim is a father of three children. From his hectic schedule of academic tours in Africa, which included a meeting with Ethiopia’s business community at Hilton Addis on June 26th, he did manage to give the following interview to Capital’s, Tedla Desta.


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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

 

In a remarkable endeavor for a pre teen child, Gabriel Berhanu Kassayie shows that the torch of Ethiopia still shines bright in far off England. Professor Pankhurst brings to us the story of a boy who is deeply aware of his identity and has taken practical steps to repossess his heritage.

 

 
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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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