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The NDA government has decided to start negotiations for a free-trade agreement (FTA) with Peru to not only boost bilateral relations but also make that country a gateway to expand India's trade and investment ties, especially in the defence sector with the Latin American region.
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Peru's Superintendency of Banking, Insurance and Private Pension Funds (SBS) took up the chairmanship of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI), at the organization's Annual General Meeting, starting the 2014 Global Policy Forum (GPF) in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. |
As she wrings out children's clothing in the rare winter sun, Hayde Zela is doing painstaking work in scarce water.
"One bucket is for draining, another for rinsing," says the mother of five, pointing at seven tubs in the arid shantytown of Vizcachera. "Another is for separating the clothing, then we use what's left for the toilet, before it all flows down the street."
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The Environment Minister, Javier Pulgar-Vidal, said he expects to see countries deliver a draft to draft an international treaty to tackle climate change in Paris by the time they leave Peru after the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP).
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 Peru's Environment Minister, Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, stressed that world leaders attending this month's United Nations (UN) secretary-general's climate summit meeting will help propel the debate around a new global agreement to be signed in 2015.
Despite the number of key world leaders from India, China, Australia and Germany expected to be absent from above-mentioned meeting on cutting greenhouse gases, Mr. Pulgar-Vidal, who is also the incoming president of the next round of global warming negotiations, predicted success.
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Peru's Minister of Environment Manuel Pulgar-Vidal opened today the seventh Ibero-American Congress on Environmental Education taking place in the Peruvian capital through September 12.
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As news broke yesterday of themurder of four Ashaninka leaders who were defending their land against loggers in the eastern region of Ucayali, in Lima the president of Congress, Ana Maria Solorzano, was honoring another Ashaninka leader, Ruth Buendia, for her world-recognized activism in defending the environment.
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The Peruvian government said on Tuesday it is investigating the deaths of four indigenous leaders who were fighting illegal logging in their Amazonian home and were apparently murdered near Peru's border with Brazil.
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Peruvian police investigators and a deputy minister met Tuesday with widows of four slain indigenous leaders who had resisted a steady onslaught by illegal loggers in their remote Amazon jungle homeland.
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A recently published research from Business Monitor International states that information technology is forecast to account for 1.1 percent of Peru's GDP growth by 2018.
This projection is based on the rising incomes and supportive government policy seen in the Andean country.
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President Ollanta Humala expressed, on behalf of Peru, his solidarity with Chile in the wake of Monday's terror attack which left wounded at least 14 citizens, the Andean nation's Foreign Ministry (MRE) announced Tuesday.
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Chinese ambassador in Lima, Huang Minhui, stressed the excellent relations between Peru and China and said her country is willing to assist the South American nation to improve its production and implement reforms to achieve such a goal.
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A team of paleontologists have found fossils of three dolphins in the Pisco-Ica desert. The study, published in the Journal Vertebrate Paleontology, notes that after thorough analysis of the well-preserved skeletons, the fossils not only belong to a new species but are related to endangered "river dolphins living in the Indus and Ganges rivers in India today".
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It's an educational as well as a tasty experience. Click on the picture!
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As the international food festival grows larger and more high-profile, the alcoholic offerings onsite continue to expand.
Andina news agency reported that the Mundo de los Bares was a popular area with visitors on the first day of the fair. In Bar World, fairgoers can enjoy unique drinks prepared by well-known Lima bars and restaurants including Huaringas Bar, Mayta Restaurante, Museo del Pisco, Ayahuasca, Entre Copas, Picas, Capit�n Mel�ndez, and Wallqa.
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The Peruvian government will spend more than US$10 million on the strengthening of four advertising campaigns aimed at promoting the Andean country's destinations in the international market, announced the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism (Mincetur)
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 Keep a first aid kit wherever you go, in case of health emergencies on your trip.
In addition to clothing and documents, a kit that is equipped with medicine and medical materials useful for cuts, scraps falls, altitude sickness, and more is essential.
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They have been making music in Peru since 1973, and just now Arcoiris de Cusco may be getting the chance to be heard by a greater audience. Thanks to director Kenneth O'Brien Llontop, born and raised in Cusco, the documentary aims to unveil "Arcoiris de Cusco in a way that rescues those important life events that molded them as human beings, as musicians, and as a group," ultimately influencing their music.
Before the film can be showcased, the production team has launched a campaign using the international crowdfunding site, Indiegogo. On this website, donations can be made, many of which will be met with a complementary prize such as a t-shirt to the movie�s soundtrack. Those feeling especially generous can even earn themselves tickets to Cusco and entrance to the film�s screening.
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 Peruvian forensic investigators displayed on Tuesday the clothing that 53 people were wearing when they were killed in the 1980s at an army base in Ayacucho. The prosecutor investigating the killings, Juan Borjas, said the Los Cabitos base was Peru's biggest detention center during the political violence of the fanatical Shining Path insurgency and a backlash of abuses by the military.
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 From the plush surroundings of Dublin's five-star Shelbourne Hotel to the dank cells of a Peruvian jail, RTE's summer schedule offers up an eclectic mix of programming. 'Michaella, Peru and the Drugs Run' is predicted to generate a lot of attention this summer. The one-off documentary, produced by 'Below the Radar', will trace Michaella McCollum's journey from the island of Ibiza to a cell in Ancon Dos prison.
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