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The Minister of Environment Lorena Tapia requested a meeting with the Mayor of Guayaquil Jaime Nebot to know the actions of the Municipality in the Estero Salado (Salty Estuary by its Spanish name). The encounter was to clarify official information received by the Municipality of...

Ukrainian troops have withdrawn from the international airport of Lugansk, in eastern Ukraine, after keeping fierce fighting with pro-Russian separatists by the enclosure in the last hours. “The Ukrainian military in front of Lugansk it were ordered and retreated from the...

Today, September 1 at midday, national transport unions will meet with President Rafael Correa to discuss the increase on bus fares by 25%. However, Abel Gómez, President of the National Federation of Cooperatives of Public Passengers Transport (Fenacotip for its Spanish...

September is the deadline for that Education careers of Ecuadorian universities deliver their list of degrees that will be redesigned, once the Rules of Degrees Nomenclature were issued weeks ago. Francisco Cadena, President of the Council of Evaluation, Accreditation and Quality...

The preliminary works for the construction of the Pacific Refinery, which would come into operation from 2017, continues despite the credit is still under negotiation with China. The Ministry indicated it would have other options for financing an agreement if the one with China...

The brands Ecasa and Indurama indicated that the presales of the induction cookers recorded 40 000 and 2 000 units respectively, during the last two weeks of August. They indicated this at the Swissotel in Quito during the exhibition of electric induction cookers, in which eight...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, once again urged Kiev to sit with the separatists to negotiate the peace and agree to give to eastern Ukrainian an autonomy that takes into consideration the interests of its inhabitants. “It is urgent to begin substantive negotiations, not...

The president of the National Finance Corporation (CFN for its Spanish acronym), Maria Soledad Barrera, in an interview with the El Universo newspaper, said the company plans to spend this year $ 250 million in loans to companies that provide investments to replace imports and to...

The new proposed amendments to another three articles of the Constitution announced by President Rafael Correa in his weekly address of August 30 will join a second ‘package’ that would be sent by the Alianza PAIS Assembly members (AP) to the Constitutional Court (CC)...

The German government agreed to send anti-tank missiles and machine guns to the Kurds fighting against the jihadist group of the slamic State (IS) in northern Iraq. The decision was taken at a meeting yesterday presided by Chancellor Angela Merkel with her ministers of defense,...