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The foreign ministers of the twelve countries that integrate the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR for its spanish acronym) will meet today in the Galapagos islands, Ecuador to know the situation of Venezuela and other issues, as reported yesterday by the Ecuadorian Foreign...

Representatives of factories that produce gas-cookers reduced their production in Ecuador between a 50% and more than a 60%. This measure is due to the announcement of the government Efficient Cooking Plan, which plans to distribute 3.5 million electric induction cookers from...

31 dead and over 90 injured was the balance left by an explosion in a market of the Xinjiang region capital in northwest China, according to Chinese state media. The official news agency, Xinhua, reported that the attack occurred when two all-terrain vehicles crashed into a...

Raúl Carrión , former Minister of Sports, was sentenced yesterday to three months in prison for the crime of attenuated embezzlement, based on the subdivision of public service contracts for the construction of the sports complexes of Carpuela, Tito Navarrete and Sucúa. Carrión...

The Russian gas consortium Gazprom and the National Petroleum Corporation of China (CNPC) signed an agreement for the exportation of natural gas to the Asian power from Russia. After nearly a decade of negotiations between the two powers, the agreement was signed this Wednesday...

The Labour Code draft project was taken to the International Labour Organization (OIT) to obtain technical comments on the text. The Ecuadorian Business Committee (CEE) and four central syndicates of the Labor Ecuadorian Parliament (PLE) came to the OIT to establish methodologies...

China called the U.S. Ambassador after Washington accused five Chinese militaries of spying U.S. companies to steal trade secrets, and warned they could take further action. The U.S. Ambassador to China Max Baucus met with Zeguang Zheng, deputy Foreign Minister of China, shortly...

Last Tuesday the president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa accused the U.S. oil company Chevron of deceiving the Ecuadorian courts, by having hired technicians to perform extrajudicial visits on key oil areas within a pollution trial. Correa reported that inspections should be...

In order to demand financial resources to complete the irrigation project Pesillo-Imbabura, in the Cayambe’s canton, thousands of Indigenous came to Quito this morning with the intention of meeting with President Rafael Correa. The meeting point was the  Independece Square, but...

Abdala Bucaram Ortiz wants to return from Panama to Ecuador. His son, Abdalá Bucaram Pulley, went yesterday to the National Court of Justice to request the annulment of the cases against the former president.  The judgments against him are embezzlement, irregularities in the...