The National Statistics Institute (INEI) today announced that Peru's economy grew 1.24 percent in August, and the growth led the Andean nation to 61 months of consecutive expansion.
 

Efforts are being made to advance other regions around the country to bring equality and to decentralize growth and modernity to more than just Peru�s capital city, Lima. According to a recent study by Catholic Centrum, six regions around the country have demonstrated improvements however there is much work to be done. Leading the pack are the Cusco and Moquegua regions, which have developed both private and publicly funded projects.

According to the National Statistics Institute (INEI), Cusco�s GDPgrew by 17.5%, thanks in large part to expansion in both gas and mining.

China's MMG Ltd said it will spend about $3 billion completing the huge Las Bambas copper mine in Peru, more than previously expected, and will slightly delay the start of production to the first quarter of 2016.

MMG led a Chinese consortium that bought Las Bambas, set to become the world's third-largest copper mine, for $7 billion from Glencore Plc in August.

Peru is lauded for its diverse landscape, but the country's snowy peaks are at risk of disappearing. According to a recent study performed by the National Water Authority (ANA) "19 mountain range glaciers in Peru have lost more than 40% of their surface in the last 40 years" (El Comercio).
 

Lobo de r�o, or river wolf, is the very evocative Spanish name for one of the Amazon's most spectacular mammals: the giant river otter (Pteronura brasiliensis). This highly intelligent, deeply social, and simply charming freshwater predator almost vanished entirely due to a relentless fur trade in the 20th Century. But decades after the trade in giant river otter pelts was outlawed, the species is making a comeback-at least in well-managed protected areas.
 

The Minister of Health, Midori de Habich, said that a drill will be carried out this Friday concerning the Ebola virus. As the virus has already taken the lives of over 4,000 West Africans, risk of Ebola spreading has induced fear on a global scale. Peru�s Ministry of Health (Minsa) aims to lessen such preoccupation by keeping the public informed.
 

Our results show that around 50% of children in Peru who were stunted in 2002, when they were around a year old, were not stunted in 2009. The same figure was around 45% for India.

School feeding programmes may help undernourished children to recover from stunting. Young Livesfindings show that in Peru, national feeding programmes, such as Qali Warma and Vaso de Leche may have helped children who became stunted as a result of the food crisis to recover.
 

A group of 25 Latin American and Caribbean countries announced the launch of a regional initiative to boost efforts to combat child labour, and achieve the goal of total eradication by 2020 at the 18th ILO American Regional Meeting held in Lima, Peru.
 

According to INEI, some 3,503,540 women are identified as living in rural areas of Peru. In other words, women account for 47.7% of the population in non-urban areas.
 

With an expected investment of $1.2 billion over the next five years, Entel, which bought Nextel Peru in 2013, has begun its new operations in Peru, seeking to stimulate competition in the telecommunications market. The carrier's investment will focus on network deployment, technology and growth in customer services.
 

Military-run telecom operator Viettel has officially launched a third-generation (3G) mobile phone network in Peru under trademark Bitel.

Bitel now is the first mobile operator in Peru that solely provides 3G-only services.

Peru's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gonzalo Guti�rrez, on Tuesday handed over the pro tempore presidency of the Andean Community (CAN) to his Bolivian counterpart, David Choquehuanca, for the period 2014-2015.