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Peru's government is finishing work on a national strategy aimed at leading the recovering in the country's exports and taking advantage of improved economic prospects of the major global markets, it was announced Wednesday.
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 Peru's gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 4.81 percent in November over the same month a year earlier, led by stronger mineral and energy production, the government has announced.
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A Chinese consortium is the front-runner to buy Glencore Xstrata PLC's Las Bambas copper mine in Peru for $5 billion or more, according to people familiar with the matter, setting up a takeover that would be one of the largest foreign acquisitions ever by a Chinese company.
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Alterra Power Corp. completed a joint venture with Philippines-based Energy Development Corp. (EDC) that covers the rest of Alterra's geothermal assets in Peru.
As part of the agreement, EDC will get a 70 percent interest in the development asset portfolio and will fund all of the next $6 million of development costs. The next activities under these concessions include advanced exploration activities designed to identify the best locations for power plant development and construction.
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The coastal region of Piura in northern Peru would be planting cotton on more than 4,000 hectares of land during the upcoming cotton campaign, especially in the Lower Piura territory of the region.
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World-famous chef Gast�n Acurio has conquered the cooking scene, and now he's set to take the film world by storm.
According to Andina news agency, the documentary film "Buscando a Gast�n" (titled "Finding Gast�n" in English), directed by Patricia P�rez, will be released on March 20, 2014.
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 More than 30,000 domestic and foreign tourists are expected to visit this year's edition of the Virgen de la Candelaria festival, which is celebrated in Peru's southeastern region of Puno for 15 days in February.
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 The tour of La Belle Epoque in Arequipa is a new travel product that some are hoping will turn into an alternative for visitors who want to get to know the historical center of the White City.
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 Peru plans to cut its coca crop, the world's largest, in half as police increase eradication of the plant that forms the base ingredient of cocaine, the government's drugs czar said. Eradication will reduce the crop to 32,000 hectares (79,000 acres) by 2016, the lowest in at least a decade, curbing exports of cocaine to countries such as Brazil and Spain, Carmen Masias told reporters in Lima today.
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 Peru said it is gradually reducing the area of illegally grown coca leaf, the raw material for cocaine, as the government tries to cut down on exports of the drug. The overall area under cultivation for coca leaf in the country fell by about 10% last year to 54,360 hectares, Carmen Masias, the head of government antidrug agency Devida, said Wednesday during a meeting with the foreign press.
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 American acoustic rocker Jack Johnson has just announced a concert in Lima. According to El Comercio, the uber-chill artist from Hawaii will appear in the Parque de la Exposicion in the center of Lima on March 3.
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 Irrigation workers in Peru have discovered at least 35 ancient tombs that are believed to be up to 1,000 years old while working to lay down piping in the coastal region of Lambayeque.
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 Anti-gay marriage activists are using Facebook and billboards to communicate their distaste for same-sex marriage. Anti-same sex marriage activists are rejecting recent gay rights initiatives and pushing back with a media campaign of their own.
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 Broadcasters in Belgium, Turkey and Peru and a Russian prodco have acquired Armoza Formats' primetime show I Can Do That! for local remakes. Belgium's VMMa and Turkey's Star TV have commissioned local formats, while Peru's Frecuencia Latina has gone a step further and ordered two seasons. The Peruvian deal marks the first time Israel-based Armoza has sold a format into the South American territory.
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 The Football Association have confirmed England will play friendlies against Peru, Ecuador and Honduras ahead of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Peru will provide the opposition at Wembley on May 30 before England head to Miami's Sunlife Stadium for the games against Ecuador and Honduras.
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 A journalist at a regional Sunday title evaded prison guards to secure an exclusive interview with one of the British women jailed in Peru for drug smuggling. Reporter Patricia Devlin, of the Sunday Lifein Belfast, managed to gain entry to the jail where the so-called Peru 2 are being held, despite journalists being banned from visiting them. She then conducted a three-hour interview with Michaella McCollum, beating the nationals to a story which has since been followed up across the UK and Irish media.
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