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On the night of October 13, the 18th regional meeting of the International Labour Organization (ILO) was inaugurated. The meeting was held in Lima, Peru, with the participation of 400 visitors and 33 delegations, including the Ecuadorian. Guy Ryder, ILO Director, indicated that...

The president of the Argentine Association of Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, Estela de Carlotto, held on Tuesday a reserved meeting with President Rafael Correa. “The President decided to invite her to come to our country with his grandson (…) and visit the...

President Rafael Correa noted that the Government will double the resources for the Amazon Region by Law 010, provided that all Amazon Mayors sign in favor of responsible mining exploitation. He qualified as double standard that some municipalities are now requesting more...

On Monday afternoon, 200 students of the Normal de Ayotzinapa (School for teachers) and 500 CETEG teachers, staged riots at the headquarters of the Government Palace of Guerrero, burning buildings and damaging the local town hall Congress and seat of the capital of the state, in...

The President of the Generalitat, Artur Mas, confirmed on Tuesday that the consultation of independence on 9 November as planned will not be done and that instead, will attempt to replacing it with a participatory process in which there will be polls. Mas explained in the Palau...

Assemblyman Andrés Páez (CREO) will ask actors Mia Farrow and Danny Glover to testify in the investigation of the hiring of the public relations agency McSquared for $ 6.4 million. Páez seeks that they specify how much they received to come to Ecuador to support the official...

The number of Spanish companies in Ecuador has tripled over the last two years, from about 50 to 152, revealed on October 13 the Ambassador of Spain, Victor Fagilde, who highlighted the recovery of the Spanish economy, in particular in its outside sector. He underlined the...

The Minister of Telecommunications, Augusto Espin, expects that the negotiation on the radio spectrum for the use of the 4G service would be settled on December with Movistar and Claro. “We hope that this year the provision of additional spectrum to operators is...

The police in Hong Kong opened today another route to traffic from the financial area after removing new pro-democracy protesters barricades. Just after 05.30 local time (21.30 GMT Monday), about 250 officers proceeded to open ways to the traffic in the district of Causeway Bay,...

The United States government has asked all hospitals in the country “to be prepared for Ebola.” Each hospital should be able to diagnose Ebola and isolate any suspected case, said the director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Tom Frieden. “We...