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Anbessa Bus Transport Enterprise, Ethiopia is to send a team of four overseas to study methods of electronic ticketing and global positioning system technology to be utilized for fleet tracking.

The management of the Ethiopian city bus service is yet to decide which country the team will visit although India is the most probable choice according to Bedlu Assefa General Manager of Anbessa.

The Ethiopian Ministry of Trade is to exert effort to reform the trade system in Ethiopia according to Siraj Ali State Minister speaking at a forum organized by the ministry.

The conference was organized by the Ministry of Trade to discuss draft proclamations known as ‘Technical Regulations’ and ‘Mandatory Standards.’

International and local consulting firms have expressed interest in undertaking a topographic survey of Lake Tana, Ethiopia. The topographic survey is expected to contribute to efforts to eliminate the dangers of flooding.

The topographic survey on the flood prone areas of the sub-basin is expected to identify landscape values and the nature of floods for the flood management system being designed by the Ethiopian Ministry of Water and Energy.

It is expected that the survey will show the characteristics of the landscape including natural and manmade features said an expert at the Ministry.

Ethiopia’s Ministry of Education has issued contracts to print high school textbooks to Indian printers. The 5.9 million US dollar contract to reprint textbooks, including teachers’ guides, for five subjects went to Repro Printers and Pitambra Books.

Nineteen international printers had responded to the invitation put out by the Ministry of Education to reprint biology, civic, chemistry, ethics, mathematics and physics.

The bidding international printers passed a technical evaluation which assessed their capacity and ability to supply the books with the proper weight of paper and specified cover page.