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$ 15.000 in Awards were Delivered at the Technological Fair Campus Party

This morning concluded the first edition of Campus Party in Quito, Ecuador, where over 2000 young technology enthusiasts visited the exhibitions, exchanged experiences, interacted with technology and received lectures from world-renowned speakers in the Middle of the World...
Posted On 24 Oct 2011
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2011 Panamerican Games: Campozano and Quiroz get Bronze in Doubles

Julio Cesar Campozano and Roberto Quiroz achieved the first silver medal for Ecuador in the 2011 Panamerican Games after losing against the Colombian Robert Farah and Juan Sebastian Cabral, with a score of 6-9, 6-4,after a three-hour match in the Telcel tennis complex. With this...
Posted On 24 Oct 2011
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Argentina Reelected President Cristina Fernandez

On Sunday, President of Argentina Cristina Fernández was reelected with more than 53% of the votes, she was ahead of her competitors all over the country except in the small province of San Luis. In addition, the president got 36 points ahead of Hermes Binner, the runner-up with...
Posted On 24 Oct 2011
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2011 Panamerican Games: Ecuador wins Bronze Medal in Wrestling

The Ecuadorian wrestler, Juan Carlos Valverde won the bronze medal at the 2011 Panamerican Games, in the category of 55 Kilos, after winning by a fall (5-0) in the battle for the 3rd place against the Guatemalan Luis Orantes, with a technique learned from an early age in his...
Posted On 24 Oct 2011
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Disastrous Quake in Turkey

Last Sunday, Turkey was struck by a 7,2 magnitude quake in the Richter scale. This is the most powerful seism that has affected the land in a decade.  The natural phenomena left a death toll of 279 casualties, and a 1,000 more were injured in the Kurdish southeast of Turkey. The...
Posted On 24 Oct 2011
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WikiLeaks Suspends Publications Due to Lack of Funding

WikiLeaks announced this Monday the “temporal suspension” of the confidential documents published due to the lack of funding. The group would focus on gathering funding to guaranty their “future survival.” The website founded by Julian Assange informed this during a press...
Posted On 24 Oct 2011
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Schiess Is the New Miss Americas

Yesterday, Claudia Schiess, Miss Ecuador 2011, was elected as the new Miss American Continent. The event was held at the Simon Bolivar Convention Center and the animation was in charge of Miss American Continent second finalist 2010, Mexican Carla Carrillo and Ecuadorian TV...
Posted On 23 Oct 2011
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Zombies Arrived to Guayaquil

This Saturday afternoon Urdesa neighbourhood (in Guayaquil, Ecuador) was filled with zombies. Carlos Reyes and Arturo Varas were the organizers of the first zombie walk ever in Ecuador held on October 31 of 2009. This is already the third zombie walk for them. The zombie walk...
Posted On 23 Oct 2011
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Bananera Noboa ‘Is not Bankrupt’

Fernando Alarcon, legal director of Bananera Noboa, owned by businessman Alvaro Noboa said yesterday that the company has not declared itself in bankruptcy and continues its regular activities, “the company is not, and will not declared itself in bankruptcy, but it will...
Posted On 22 Oct 2011
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Ecuadorian Cocoa wins Award at Salon du Chocolat

  Ecuadorian cacaowas given a prize as the best one in the world, at the Salon du Chocolat in Paris, France, an event that was held from 19 to 21 October in the third edition of the International Cocoa Awards, chocolate is considered the most important trade fair.  Two...
Posted On 22 Oct 2011
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