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Peru to register a 4% economic growth in 2015, projected the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The projection means Peru will become Latin America's highest expanding country among the main assessed economies by IMF. |
Based on the latest International Monetary Fund (IMF) projections, Peru's Finance Minister Alonso Segura said the Peruvian economy will expand by 4% this year, thus taking the lead in the region again.
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The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism (Mincetur) organized the workshop on National Biocommerce Strategy until 2021 with the aim of turning Peru into a successful business model of goods and services derived from native biodiversity by the said year.
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 RioSol and Compania Minera Rio Sol last month announced a significant rare earth element and poly-metallic claim discovery in Peru, with reports indicating the 10-kilometer Capacscaya and adjacent claims as having the highest rare earth ranges in Peru containing both light rare earth elements (LREEs) and heavy rare earth elements and metals (HREEs).
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 Picture this: A rickety barge about the size of a garden shed is floating on the Madre de Dios river in eastern Peru. A stream of tan sludge pours off a conveyor belt on one side of the platform. Smoke from a generator belches from the other. The sound of a massive pump thuds across the water. And dangling over the side of the barge is a thick tube to suck sediment up from the riverbed.
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Municipal authorities from provinces in Amazonas region and government officials from Peru's Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion (Midis) agreed to a series of joined actions to empower people living in poverty and extreme poverty.
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 The Head of the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion (Midis), Paola Bustamante, committed to extend the scope of social programs and interventions of the Ministry in the Uchuraccay district located in the Huanta province (Ayacucho).
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 The Antidrug Prosecutor's office of Ayacucho has seized 420 kilos (925 pounds) of cocaine base and has arrested 4 presumed drug traffickers, who operated in the Valley of Apurimac, Ene and Mantaro (VRAEM) rivers.
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 The head of the Judiciary of Peru, Victor Ticona, and the British Ambassador to Peru, Anwar Choudhury, have agreed on a strategic alliance in order to combat illicit drug trafficking and money laundering.
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 Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women around the world. It kills over a quarter of a million women each year - especially in countries where screening and treatment are not easily available. Now doctors in Peru are testing a portable device that can treat women at risk of cancer before the cancer develops. Watch the BBC's video!
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South Korea plans to sign memorandums of understanding (MOUs) to promote financial cooperation with Peru, the finance ministry said Thursday.
The pacts, to be reached during Vice Finance Minister Bang Moon-kyu's visit to the Latin American countries, call for comprehensive cooperation aimed at sharing financial data and fiscal policy know-how.
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 The Chairwoman of Peruvian Congress, Ana Maria Solorzano, was awarded the highest medal by the Chamber of Deputies of the Republic of Chile during an official visit to the Southern nation.
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 Malaysia's former ambassador to Peru, Datuk Ahmad Mokhtar Selat, has died, his son Rizal Afandy said Thursday.
Ahmad Mokhtar was 66. He had been Malaysia's ambassador to Peru for three years up to 1999, and was one of the hostages when guerrillas of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement seized the residence of Japan's ambassador in Lima in December 1996.
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According to Soledad Marroqu�n, an expert of pisco, the most convincing theory about its origin states that it was brought by Italian immigrants. They used to have a drink called buon giorno(good morning), which was made of grappa (brandy made from grapes) and ginger ale. |
Cusco and Lima rate among the "first Top tourism destinations" in South America, as confirmed by the latest TripAdvisor list. |
This year Cajamarca's Carnaval is expected to welcome more than 7,000 visitors from different regions across the country and abroad, who get together to enjoy this traditional Andean celebration. |
Peruvian Nobel Literature Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, 78, today confessed he would rather stay active and take risks than think about retirement.
"The human beings I have admired the most are those holding out until the end and those for whom death is a like an accident that surprises them in action. I would like to die while I am still alive," he was quoted as saying by Spanish journal El Pais.
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 A new exhibit in the Peruvian capital features some of the most striking images captured by Agencia EFE photojournalists over the Spanish news organization's 75-year history while documenting 25 years of infrastructure modernization in Latin America.
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The Peruvian Olympic Committee technical commission informed that a total of 98 athletes have managed to qualify for the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games, as is the case of the women's national volleyball team, whose qualification was recently confirmed.
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 The Peruvian soccer team will face Venezuela in a friendly game in Miami on March 31.
The match is part of the preparation on the way to Copa America 2015, informed the Peruvian Soccer Federation (FPF).
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The Magic Water Circuit located at the Parque de Reserva (Reserve Park) facilities reached a historic visit record by welcoming more than 20,000 visitors on January 18, the day it was reopened after remodeling works concluded.
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