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A powerful magnitude-8.2 earthquake struck off northern Chile on Tuesday night, setting off a small tsunami that forced evacuations along the country's entire Pacific coast. Six people were crushed to death or suffered fatal heart attacks, the interior minister said, but Chile apparently escaped major damage or serious casualties. Peru cancels tsunami alert issued after Chile quake |
 The rate of growth of the Peruvian gross domestic product (GDP) is likely to be around at 5 percent in the first quarter of 2014, Peru's private pension fund association (AAFP) said Monday. The first quarter' expansion would be fueled by the increasing country's domestic demand and the economic recovery of United States, Japan and some European nations.
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 Peru's President Ollanta Humala has said his administration plans to invest 3.2 billion soles (US$ 1,06 billion) in key projects of the northern Lambayeque region raging from road infrastructure to school facilities, it was reported Tuesday.
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 Peruvian non-traditional exports increased in February by 11.40 percent from a year earlier, the National Statistics Institute, INEI, said on Monday. According to the government agency, February's growth was driven by increased shipments from core sectors such as agricultural and livestock, textile, fishing as well as from the chemical and metalworking sub-sectors.
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 Southern Copper's mining operations in southern Peru continued normally late on Tuesday after a Magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck off northern Chile, a company spokesman said.
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 Peru is expected to export 200,000 tons of table grapes in the 2014-2015 campaign with revenues worth nearly US$550 million, according to Fernando Cilloniz, president of the consulting firm Inform@cci�n.
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Peru's central government is expected to spend 820.8 million soles (US$292.2 million) for disaster risk reduction, a 16 percent increase from a year earlier, Peruvian Economy and Finance Ministry (MEF) reported Monday.
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A volcano in Peru that has not blown its top in four decades spewed more ash skyward on Tuesday, after authorities evacuated villagers to avoid Ubinas's wrath.
The volcano in southwestern Peru blasted back to life causing about 60 villagers from Querapi, near its base, to be relocated on Saturday, Ubinas town mayor Pascual Coaquira said.
"We are readying a shelter for refugees from the blasts", he added on Tuesday, noting that the whole Moquegua region was on alert.
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Authorities in southern Peru handed out masks and protective glasses on Monday after a pickup in activity at the Ubinas Volcano, near Arequipa. Civil Defense provided the safety equipment to residents in Querapi and Ubinas, in the province of General Sanchez Cerro, to protect them against ash from the volcano, daily El Comercio reported.
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Peru's fishing sector is at risk of being significantly affected by this year's El Nino, fishing expert and oceanic scientist Luis Icochea told Undercurrent News.
The weather phenomenon will particularly hit the anchovy stock and as a result the fishmeal industry, while also affecting giant squid catches for direct human consumption, said Icochea.
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The Peruvian capital Lima is set to host the Legislative Presidents' First Meeting of member countries of the Organization of American States (OAS) to be held later this year, it has been reported.
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Students from the University of South Dakota went on a field trip to the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Chavin de Huantar... And took these stunning photos about the people living there. |
 Foreign tourist arrivals in northern Peru grew by 68.8 percent over last 11 years, thanks to the progress achieved in widening access to a largest range of destinations and the expansion of operational airport infrastructure.
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Jim Ashford has been specializing in Peruvian cuisine for three years at Paternoster's Bistro, mixing culinary-school concepts and family-tree experience in an atmosphere of old-school hospitality.
Over his total of 13 years in the cozy space behind Cravin' Pizza on East Sunshine Street, the bistro has earned a reputation as Springfield's best-kept secret for dining, Ashford said. That's because his loyal following wants to keep it that way, he said.
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US designer Kenneth Cole hits the LIF Week catwalk (PHOTOS) LIF Week's international guest designer, Kenneth Cole closed the opening night of the fashion week's Fall/Winter edition. |
 Peru's long-distance runner Gladys Tejeda has set a new national record during her performance in the women's race at the 2014 World Half-Marathon Championships, in Copenhague, Denmark, it has been reported.
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 According to Publimetro, two architects of different firms have laid down proposals that would convert San Isidro's Golf Club into a centrally located park that would be open to all. The idea was put forth last week by Juan Manuel del Castillo, a Peruvian architect and urban planner with over 30 years of experience. He first wrote about the idea on his blog, Catarqsis Urbana, in a post published on Sunday 25, where he proposed to convert the Golf Club in the open zonal park called "Todas las Sangres," or "All Races."
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