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From yesterday, the members of the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security (IESS for its Spanish acronym,) may obtain their own passwords electronically. In a statement, the IESS explained that each user must have an email before undertaking a series of steps and thus access...

Since nine out the fifteen days of the second legislative recess of the 2013 term were not taken, the National Assembly will have its recess in February, on the eve of the Sectional Elections of Sunday 23rd of that month. The ruling party member Rosana Alvarado, Senior Vice...

After three days into the new year, all the national holidays, which go up to 9, are already established and organized. The Schedule can be viewed at the Ministry of Tourism’s website, the same states the following: New Year , Wednesday January 1, holiday with mandatory rest....

35 new species were found in the Amazon and in the Ecuadorian Andes. Fungi, reptiles, birds, amphibians, mammals with different DNA part of the biodiversity of the country and now such investigations are published in 40 journals internationally. Studies were made from 2008 until...

The ‘rushers’, as the followers of the american ‘boy band’, Big Time Rush, call themselves, can enjoy their idols, who will give a concert on Wednesday, February 19, the Agora of the House of culture in Ecuador, according to a statement from Team...

Last January 1st, national holiday, endless lines of people formed at the outskirts of Guayaquil’s Municipality, who did not hesitate in sleeping outdoors just to get that precious first seats for the first day of property tax income, thus taking advantage from the discounts by...

Ecuador expressed on Tuesday, December 31 its solidarity with Brazil for the strong storm which has affected  the southeast of that country for  two weeks, reported the Foreign Ministry in Quito. “The Ecuadorian Government expresses its deepest regret for the loss of human...

The former Director of the Police Hospital, Col. Cesar Carrion, who was declared not guilty of of attempting against the life of President Rafael Correa on September 30, 2010, could be processed again though for other criminal offenses. That possibility is being analysed by the...

After spending more than a week trapped in the ice of Antarctica, thirty of the 52 passengers on the Russian ship Akademik Shokalskiy were rescued and taken to an Australian icebreaker. Local media reported that the helicopter of the Chinese icebreaker Xue Long, carried...

Juan Pablo Grijalva, Manager of the Association of farmers of the Sierra and the Amazon (AGSO), highlights that the dairy sector grew 6% both in production and sales in 2013, compared with the  5% of 2012. This year it estimates that the expansion of the sector will be 10%....