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Non-traditional agricultural exports from Peru totaled US$ 3.1 billion between January and November 2013, a 6.9% increase over the same period a year ago, the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (Minagri) has said.
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 A total of 109,300 new jobs were created in Metropolitan Lima during 2013, national statistics agency INEI said on Wednesday. In the fourth quarter of 2013, the employed population in Lima rose 2 percent from the year-earlier period to more than 4.65 million, accumulating 51 consecutive months of growth.
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 Investment in infrastructure through the Peruvian government's tax stimulus program for private companies is expected to top 1.3 billion soles (US$ 464.2 million) by 2014, said on Thursday Peru's private investment promotion agency (ProInversion).
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 Colombia's Grupo Energia de Bogota said Thursday that it has entered into a $650 million deal to acquire a stake in a consortium that operates a major Peruvian gas pipeline. Grupo Energia de Bogota said its subsidiary, Transportadora de Gas Internacional SA, signed a deal with Tecpetrol International SA to acquire its 23.61% stake in the consortium, known as Transportadora de Gas del Peru.
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 Proposals from Pontificia Universidad Cat�lica del Per� and Universidad Nacional de Trujillo were chosen from projects submitted by universities from around the world. Wind energy projects from two Peruvian universities will receive U.S. funding after being chosen from proposals submitted by 10 universities from across the globe.
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 Protesters in northern Peru abducted a contract security worker at Newmont Mining Corp's Conga project on Thursday and held him until the early hours of Friday morning, a spokesman for the U.S. miner's Peruvian joint venture said on Friday.
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 Minera Yanacocha, a mining company run by U.S.-based Newmont MiningCorp. , said that about 750 protesters entered land owned by the company Thursday, destroying a telephone tower and kidnapping a security guard.
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Tuna supply giant, Tri Marine, has agreed to acquire 100% of the shares of Conservera de las Americas from Austral. Conservera de las Americas owns and operates the tuna and pelagics processing plant in Paita, Peru.
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President Ollanta Humala is inviting former Presidents Alan Garcia and Alejandro Toledo to a meeting early next week, to discuss the upcoming ruling by The Hague on a maritime border dispute with Chile, daily El Comercio reported.
The meeting is expected to be held Monday at the government palace, and both President Garcia, who is Humala's immediate predecessor, and President Toledo, who is currently in the U.S., have reportedly confirmed that they will attend the meeting.
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Peruvian President Ollanta Humala has called for a meeting with the Andean country's main political leaders to discuss the scenario following an upcoming verdict in the long-standing maritime dispute with Chile.
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Londoners "going Peruvian" for an evening now have award-winning Andean quality to choose from. After Lima won a Michelin star, and with a new Shoreditch restaurant and a new West End club just opened, we list our chosen Inca trail.
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 On Saturday, Jan. 18, Lima will turn 479 years old. Lima was founded by the conquistador Francisco Pizarro in 1535. In order to celebrate the city's upcoming anniversary, events are taking place across the Lima. Lima was founded by the conquistador Francisco Pizarro in 1535. In order to celebrate the city's upcoming anniversary, events are taking place across the Lima.
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 The Peruvian government is set to record a 9,000-km asphalt paving program of country roads aimed at both broadening the range of tourist destinations currently on offer and attracting more travelers.
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 Archaeologists in Peru's northern Lambayeque region have discovered an ancient cemetery with 35 tombs believed to be up to 1,000 years old. The tombs -containing skeletal remains, ceramics, textiles and gold-plated copper pieces- are thought to be of a pre-hispanic Sican descent.
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 A new species of toad was discovered hiding in the leaf litter of the Peruvian Yungas. The word is used widely by the locals to describe ecoregion of montane rainforests, and translates as "warm valley" in English. The new species Rhinella yunga was baptized after its habitat preference. The study was published in the open access journal ZooKeys.
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 Peruvian bel canto star Juan Diego Florez will be given the prestigious Crystal Award at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
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 England will meet Peru in their 2014 World Cup send-off game at Wembley Stadium on Friday, May 30. Looking through the history books, the English Football Association (FA) found that the Three Lions have only played Peru twice before. Both matches were friendlies in the Peruvian capital of Lima and both took place more than 50 years ago, the FA said on Friday.
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 Recent heavy downpours in Peru's southern Andes have affected some 15,000 families in Andahuaylas Province of Apurimac Region, local authorities said Thursday. At a press conference, Oscar Rojas, president of Apurimac's Civil Defense Office, said that according to initial damage assessments of the deluge, 120 houses were destroyed, 500 hectares of crops damaged and 80 km of highways blocked by landslides.
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 A human rights official in Brazil's Acre state has proposed temporarily closing a border crossing from Peru in order to devise a system to more efficiently handle the "caravans" of Haitian immigrants that have overwhelmed the region in the four years since a massive quake crippled the Caribbean nation.
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