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Peruvian economy will expand between 3% - 4% this year, the President of the National Confederation of Private Business Institutions (CONFIEP) Martin Perez estimated. |
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The President of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru (BCR), Julio Velarde, affirmed the Peruvian economy will continue dynamizing gradually (from March) thanks to the recovery of primary sectors and a higher investment in infrastructure.
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Peru's Government has issued regulations, which will enable to conduct investment projects worth over S/.1.00 billion (around US$326 million).
Those will help to mitigate the decrease of public investment executed by regional governments, affirmed Peru's Finance Minister, Alonso Segura.
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The Central Reserve Bank of Peru (BCR) has launched today the 20th coin that is part of the "Wealth and Pride of Peru" Numismatic Series. This time it is allusive to the Pusharo Petroglyphs that are located in Madre de Dios.
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Peru wants to cancel state-run energy firm Petroperu's 25 percent stake in two oil blocks that it had planned to develop with conglomerate Grana y Montero, a union leader and industry insider said Wednesday.
A reversal would mark a shift in President Ollanta Humala's ambitions for Petroperu to take part in oil production for the first time in more than two decades.
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Carlos Monges Reyes, president and general manager of Gran Tierra Energy Peru, speaks to TOGY about the impact of low global oil prices on local companies and the outlook of Peru's oil and gas industry, as well as the country's new environmental regulations. Gran Tierra Energy Peru is the local subsidiary of the Calgary-based exploration and production company Gran Tierra Energy.
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Between 2000 and 2014 Peruvian agro-exports registered an average annual growth of 20%. The trend could remain throughout 2015, if the climatic conditions and the traditional products prices, such as coffee's remain "favorable," the Peruvian Association of Exporters (ADEX) affirmed. |
Peru's Finance Minister, Alonso Segura, affirmed this will be a good year for the fishing sector, even despite the 'El Ni�o' climatic phenomenon, which would only mitigate the performance of a spectacular year. |
 After 346 years of its founding, the southern Peruvian region of Puno is opening its first digital school, N� 71001 Almirante Miguel Grau. The Regional Government of Puno (GRP) inaugurated its first digital school yesterday that will provide 18 classrooms for the benefit of 1,200 students in Puno.
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The international fair, set for mid April, focuses upon exchange opportunities for those interested in language learning.
Now, as the company celebrates its 50 year anniversary, EF Education First comes to Peru to present the International EF Fair Lima. Held in the Miraflores district, at the Belmond Hotel, the fair focuses upon language learning by offering a wide variety of opportunities for language training, educational travel, academic degree programs and cultural exchange.
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The European Parliament approved the elimination of the Schengen Visa for Peruvians and Colombians, after a formal vote of the political verbal agreement of February. The European Parliament voted for the approval of the disposal of the Schengen Visa with 523 votes in favor and 41 against, confirmed the Ambassador of Colombia to the European Union (EU), Belgium, and Luxembourg, Rodrigo Rivera told Per�21. |
 Prime Minister, Ana Jara, and Foreign Affairs Minister, Gonzalo Gutierrez Reinel, held a private audience with the spouses and daughter of Venezuela's incarcerated opposition leaders, Leopoldo Lopez and Antonio Ledezma.The meeting was called on behalf of Peru's President Ollanta Humala.
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A day before Asia's 50 Best 2015 awards ceremony earlier this month, chef Mitsuharu Tsumura (affectionately known as Micha) was up and about making ceviche, a cured seafood dish, at a Peruvian ceviche master class. The Peru-born Japanese chef was in Singapore with members of the Tiger's Milk Gang from Peru - chefs Virgilio Martinez of Central (No. 1 on Latin America's 50 Best), Gaston Acurio of Astrid y Gaston (No. 2 on Latin America's 50 Best) and Rafael Piqueras of Maras. |
 Peruvian gourmands will be able to add kangaroo meat to their shopping list, with the launching this month of sales of kangaroo sirloin, striploin and rump at some Wong supermarkets in Lima.
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Built in the shadows of the Andes, Cusco's golden temple was the centrepiece of an empire that revolutionised city planning in South America
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 Some 25,000 domestic and international tourists will arrive in La Libertad as part of the observance of Holy Week, regional manager of La Libertad's Foreign Trade and Tourism department Eduardo Azabache Alvarado informed.
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The Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa carries the mixed blessing of a 2010 Nobel citation that praises him "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt and defeat". Never mind that the same words broadly describe every episode of Fawlty Towers, they also summon up the cod liver oil view of literature: books are good for you, and their value positively correlates with their indigestibility. |
Peru's table tennis players, Diego Rodriguez and Johan Chavez, will officially be competing in the 2015 Toronto Pan American Games, according to Andina news agency. |
The Government of Peru enacted today, in the official gazette El Peruano, the law to prevent and punish sexual harassment in public places, previously passed by the Congress of the Republic to defend people's rights, particularly those of women.
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