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Tungurahua Volcano seismic activity was registered this morning again. At about 05:00 am (local time) there were moderate sized explosions causing a roar of about 5 minutes duration. It also reports slight drop below and fall of gravel grain size of rice in Baños city. At the...

Yesterday, Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa together with the Ministry of Sport gave $6 million for the physical training to the 86 athletes who will represent Ecuador at the Olympic Games next July 27. As part of the High Performance 2012 Plan, the Ecuadorian representatives...

Ecuador Times was present at the delivery of donations and microcredit that the Crusade for a New Humanity Foundation makes every month. With the hope of equipped her family business, Mrs. Rosa Chacha received a microcredit from the Crusade which will be used to purchase a...

Niñosaurios, Héctor Napolitano, Droz Band, Alleguez Son, Danilo Rosero, Guayaquil City Band and a special guest will perform at the musical event to be held on Saturday on “La Noche Amarilla”, a tribute to classic Ecuadorian soccer team Barcelona.Two Bands and a soloist, who will...

This morning, Margarita Neira, Prosecutor for Crimes against Life, asked to call Patricia Parrales, Director of Children’s Hospital Francisco Ycaza Bustamante and Ricardo Alcívar, Head of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for intentional murder in Neonatal case. The...

The National Council of Telecommunications, CONATEL informed that since February 2nd, mobile airtime will not have a date of expiration.  Telecommunications Minister, Jaime Guerrero, stated in an interview: “Air time should last until the user decides to use all his/her...

Today, Ecuadorian journalists Héctor Hernán Higuera and Antonio Eduardo Narvaez received the King of Spain International Prize for Journalism in the category of TV for the live broadcast during the police uprising in 2010 (30S). Higuera and Narvaez obtained the award thanks to...

U.S. magazine International Living ranked Ecuador in first place as the best location in the world for retirement, for the third consecutive year; followed by Mexico, Panama, Spain and New Zealand. Around 23 countries were investigated and based on eight categories such as: cost...

The tradition of ‘años viejos’ in Ecuador has grown in acceptance, detail and size in the street Portete, in the city of Guayaquil. Some years ago the giant dolls became one of the most entertaining events in the nights of New Years Eve. However, unlike the small and medium...

Ecuador’s environmental plan, which plans to prevent the exploitation of 846 million barrels of oil in the Yasuní Amazonian park, will extend over 2 years, according to the government’s chief negotiator, Ivonne Baki. The goal for the next two years (2012 – 2013)...