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BCE connects to Claro service for electronic money transactions

This September 25, the Central Bank of Ecuador (BCE for its Spanish acronym) and the Claro telephone service signed a connection agreement to implement the use of electronic money in the country. Mateo Villalba, Manager of the BCE, highlighted the agreement with Claro, because it...
Posted On 26 Sep 2014
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Agreements continue to resolve border problems between Guayas and Manabí

To resolve in a friendly way the settlement of the bordering uncertainties in the communities of Las pavitas (between Pedro Carbo and Paján) and San Pablo de Pueblo Nuevo (border area between Santa Ana and Balzar), was the agreement between the Prefects of Manabi, Mariano...
Posted On 26 Sep 2014
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ENES tests will be taken on Saturday, September 27

In the Insular and Coast regions, students of third year of high school (senior year) of public and private schools will take the National Exam for Higher Education (ENES for its Spanish acronym) on Saturday 27.  Students of the Highlands and the Amazon who did not take the exam...
Posted On 26 Sep 2014
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Ecuador will host Africa-South America Summit

During a press conference in the framework of the 69th General Assembly of the United Nations (UN), the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility, Ricardo Patino, announced that Ecuador will host the South America-Africa Summit (ASA) in 2016. Patino also discussed the...
Posted On 25 Sep 2014
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Ukraine calls on Western countries to maintain sanctions against Russia

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk, this Wednesday urged western countries to not lift the sanctions against Russia while Ukraine does not recover its “entire territory.” During the General Assembly of the UN, Yatseniuk once again denounced “the Russian...
Posted On 25 Sep 2014
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Cameron will offer apologies to Queen Elizabeth after inappropriate comment

British Prime Minister David Cameron will apologize in person to Queen Elizabeth for saying that she “purred” of pleasure, as cats do when he reported her on the outcome of the referendum in Scotland. Cameron made this revelation to the former mayor of New York,...
Posted On 25 Sep 2014
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Draft Labour Code will not be “urgent economic,” according to Cayambe

After a conversation with the Minister of Labour Relations, Carlos Marx Carrasco, Fausto Cayambe (AP), a member of the Commission on the Rights of Workers of the Assembly and Coordinator of the ruling party bloc, assured that the draft Labour Code will not enter in th...
Posted On 25 Sep 2014
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Venezuelan opposition choose the new MUD’s leader

The Bureau of Democratic Unity (MUD for its Spanish acronym), formed by the Venezuelan opposition this Wednesday named officially as head of the Executive Secretariat of the MUD, the journalist Jesús Torrealba. Torrealba, replaces in the position to Ramon Guillermo Aveledo, who...
Posted On 25 Sep 2014
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Biess destinates $ 40 million for alimony loans

The Bank of the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security (Biess) earmarked $ 40 million for parents facing alimony lawsuits in Ecuador. They will receive Government loans to cover this obligation with their children and avoid going to prison, according to an initiative launched by...
Posted On 25 Sep 2014
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New draft Land Law includes “rural territories”

The latest draft Land Law, called “draft No. 1”, dated September 18 and delivered to the members of the Commission on Food Sovereignty on this Tuesday 23 September, the  titled the project as ‘Organic Law on Rural Land’ and includes the...
Posted On 25 Sep 2014
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