Sany wins 153MW Ethiopian contract

The 102 1.5MW Sany turbines, worth CNY 600 million ($95 million), will be installed in the second phase of the Adama project. A contract was signed between Sany and HydroChina International Engineering, the project developer.
According to Sany Heavy Industry president Xiang Wenbo, it is China's largest single wind turbine export deal.
The Adama wind farm, an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) project constructed built Chinese government preferential loans, is the largest new energy project in eastern Africa. It is expected to go into construction on 8 June, and enter operation in 2014.
Goldwind had been tipped to win the contract. HydroChina recently completed a 51MW plant at Nazret, Ethiopia, with Goldwind turbines.
Xiang said Sany would start to deliver wind turbines in late June. The project will be an important boost for Sany in the light of its recent issues surrounding a series of project in Oregon, US.
In 2012, US President Barack Obama decided to scrap Sany's purchase of four wind-farm projects on national security concerns on the grounds that they were near a US navy facility.
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Korea Association of Ethiopian Studies inaugurated in Seoul

Founding members of Korea Association of Ethiopian Studies pose for a picture at the inauguration meeting in Seoul, on May 19th. Front row, center, Huh Jong, a professor Emeritus at Kyung Hee University, and a chairman of KAES, Second from left, Kim Hyoung Joong, a professor of Korea University

SEOUL, KOREA - This year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Korea and Ethiopia. The ties started during the Korean War in 1951 when the Ethiopian Emperor, Haile Selassie, sent 6,000 troops to fight as part of the American-led UN force supporting South Korea. In December, 1963, the two countries established ties and have continued this positive relationship until today.
In 2011, Korea’s former president, Lee Myung-bak, visited Ethiopia to express his gratitude to the war veterans. Afterwards, the Korea’s government invited 300 children of the veterans to visit Korea and provided them with training for technical skills in the areas of wielding, automobiles, and electronics. 120 more individuals are expected to be invited for training this year and next.
On October 2011, the former professor at Seoul National University, Lee Jang-gyu, was appointed as a president of the Adama Science and Technology University in Ethiopia. The following year, Park Hong-lee, a former professor at Yonsei University joined the university as the dean of the School of Science. The department of Material Engineering was also newly established in collaboration with Pohang University of science and technology.

President Obama at Morehouse: Spotlight on Valedictorian Betsegaw Tadele

New York (TADIAS) – How would you like to be a valedictorian at a graduation ceremony where the keynote speaker is the President of the United States? That’s exactly the opportunity that Ethiopian American Betsegaw Tadele, a computer science major at Morehouse College, received when President Barack Obama delivered the commencement address last Sunday.



“We will remember this day,” Betsegaw told his classmates in his own well-received speech. “We will be among the few graduates 50 years from now who will remember who was their commencement graduation speaker.”
Invoking President Obama’s book The Audacity of Hope Betsegaw added: “There is no impossible. There is no unbelievable. There is no unachievable, if you have the audacity to hope.”
When it was Obama’s turn to take the stage he joked with Betsegawu: “a skinny guy with a funny name.”
On a more serious note to the graduates Obama said: “Whatever success I have achieved, whatever positions of leadership I’ve held, have depended less on Ivy League degrees or SAT scores or GPAs, and have instead been due to that sense of connection and empathy, the special obligation I felt, as a black man like you, to help those who need it most; people who didn’t have the opportunities that I had — because there, but for the grace of God, go I. I might have been in their shoes. I might have been in prison. I might have been unemployed. I might not have been able to support a family. And that motivates me.”

Gigi - Illuminated Audio (Part 2 of 2)

Gigi Illuminated Audio

1. Sew Argen 0:00
2. Nafekeñ 9:15
3. Abet Wubet 17:47
4. Guramayle 24:26
5. Gud Fella 29:36
6. Guramayle (Slight Return) 35:03

 

Gigi - Illuminated Audio (Part 1 of 2)

Gigi Illuminated Audio

1.Abay 0:00
2.Tew Ante Sew 8:42
3.Mengedegna 15:05
4.Kahn 20:39 

 

Vahé Tilbian -- Yené Tizita / የኔ ትዝታ-Ethiopian Music

Ethiopian family in North Texas takes higher education to a new level

by JASON WHEELER

Bio | Email | Follow: @jasonwheelertv

WFAA

Posted on May 19, 2013 at 10:08 PM

Updated yesterday at 11:14 PM

UNIVERSITY PARK — At an SMU commencement ceremony this weekend, Roza Essaw looked and sounded like a typical graduate.
"I just graduated. It’s exciting! It’s a wonderful feeling!" she said.
But her story is pretty remarkable. Essaw picked up bachelor’s degrees in political science, human rights and communications.
Three degrees. That’s impressive on its own. But it’s just half the story, as told by the announcer on the graduation stage.
"Her mother and father are both graduating with MBAs from Amberton University, and her sister is graduating today with a BS in nursing from Midwestern State University."
One family. Six degrees. In one week.
Higher education is clearly a family affair in Essaw's household.