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The Port Authority of Guayaquil (APG ) is opposed to charge a levy before the dredging works of Los Goles rock start. In response, the Municipality of Guayaquil has to remove that obstacle in the process. Despite questioning the legality of the process initiated by Mayor Jaime...

The Colombian A. E. R. A., alleged perpetrator of the murder of the elected mayor of Muisne, Walquer Vera Guerrero, arrived yesterday to Esmeraldas under strict norms of security by air. The suspect was arrested last Saturday on the exterior of a shopping center in Guayaquil....

Around 45 tanks with lubricating oil were evacuated this monday from the vessel Galapaface I, stranded since may 9 in front of the San Cristobal island in Galápagos, said the Galápagos National Park Directorate (DPNG for its spanish acronym). The Emergency Operations Committee...

Abdala Bucaram Ortiz wants to return from Panama to Ecuador. His son, Abdalá Bucaram Pulley, went yesterday to the National Court of Justice to request the annulment of the cases against the former president.  The judgments against him are embezzlement, irregularities in the...

In order to demand financial resources to complete the irrigation project Pesillo-Imbabura, in the Cayambe’s canton, thousands of Indigenous came to Quito this morning with the intention of meeting with President Rafael Correa. The meeting point was the  Independece Square, but...

Last Tuesday the president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa accused the U.S. oil company Chevron of deceiving the Ecuadorian courts, by having hired technicians to perform extrajudicial visits on key oil areas within a pollution trial. Correa reported that inspections should be...

China called the U.S. Ambassador after Washington accused five Chinese militaries of spying U.S. companies to steal trade secrets, and warned they could take further action. The U.S. Ambassador to China Max Baucus met with Zeguang Zheng, deputy Foreign Minister of China, shortly...

Umco, Fundireciclar , Win Slim and Indalum are conducting studies to possibly become suppliers of cookware needed for the new electric kitchens, which would replace gas kitchens. The government requirements are three pots with lids and a frying pan for a referential price of $...

The Labour Code draft project was taken to the International Labour Organization (OIT) to obtain technical comments on the text. The Ecuadorian Business Committee (CEE) and four central syndicates of the Labor Ecuadorian Parliament (PLE) came to the OIT to establish methodologies...

The Russian gas consortium Gazprom and the National Petroleum Corporation of China (CNPC) signed an agreement for the exportation of natural gas to the Asian power from Russia. After nearly a decade of negotiations between the two powers, the agreement was signed this Wednesday...