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In March, copper production recovered thanks to a remarkable growth of 9% experienced in the said month, the Ministry of Energy and Mines announced. Gold and zinc output expanded by 10.38% and 23.7% respectively in the same period. |
Non-traditional export sector grew by 1.3% in the period comprised between April 2014 and March 2015 boosted by agro-industry, fishing, metallurgical and wood industries, Peru's Association of Exporters (ADEX) announced.
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The work carried out by Peru's National Customs and Tax Administration (Sunat), which in 2014 led to increase the fiscal pressure despite the difficult international situation the region was going through due to the metal price decline, was highlighted by Inter-American Center for Tax Administration (CIAT) Executive Secretary Marcio Verdi.
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In New York City, Peru's Finance Minister Alonso Segura will hold a series of meetings with top investors and corporation CEOs interested in the business opportunities offered in the South American country, the Finance Ministry announced.
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Peru's Sustainable Management Expo 2015 got underway this morning-showing what is being done right and what still needs to be done to ensure companies work for the public good as well as profit.
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Peru's mineral production expanded in the first quarter of the year, compared to the same period last year, Peru's Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM) reported. |
 SunEdison has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Latin American Power (LAP), a leading hydropower and wind energy producer in Chile and Peru. Through this platform acquisition, SunEdison will expand its presence in the global wind power market and in Latin America. LAP will also become the global hydropower development platform for SunEdison.
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 As Peru rapidly grows its economy, the country's Bolsa de Valores Lima exchange hopes to turn itself into a regional hub for international investors. To that end, the exchange has gone live with a new trading platform, built by the London Stock Exchange's MillenniumIT subsidiary.
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The majestic bird is integral to the culture and history of the Andean peoples but the Andean Condor's numbers are in decline, falling prey to human activity. |
Four Andean enterprises selling value-added products, and advised by Peru's government-run Sierra Exportadora program participate at Sial China 2015 fair.
This fair takes place in Shanghai on May 6-8, the organization attached to the Agriculture and Irrigation Ministry announced.
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 The Commander of the Peruvian Navy (MGP), Admiral Edmundo Deville del Campo, received the first two General Dynamics Land Systems Canada (GDLS-C) LAV-II 8x8 armoured fighting vehicle at the GDLS-C facility in London, Ontario, on 6 May.
Both LAV-IIs will be delivered to Peru in late June and are part of a USD67 million order for 32 vehicles - including armoured personnel carrier and ambulance versions - that was first announced in July 2014. Deliveries are expected to end in mid-2016.
The MGP has named its LAV-IIs the 'Cayman', in honour of a Special Forces group deployed against Shining Path insurgents in the 1980s.
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Players in the hydrocarbons industry were pleased by the Peruvian government's plans to ease river transit through a series of major infrastructure projects. The first phase, the construction of new riparian ports in the cities of Yurimaguas, Pucallpa and Saramiriza, is well in hand, with the port in Yurimaguas already under construction.
The second phase of the government's plan is the $69-million Amazonian Waterways development, which consists of a dredging project aimed at enabling the Mara�on, Ucayali and Huallaga rivers, all tributaries of the Amazon, to be navigable 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
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 Nominations are open for the Equator Prize 2015, aimed at empowering community groups; raising the prospects for indigenous peoples and a sustainable world.
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Peru's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Eduardo Martinetti, informed the proposal to regulate the modernization process of the national diplomatic service will take final shape soon within the framework of the priorities set by Peruvian Chancellor Ana Maria Sanchez. |
Leading historians, archaeologists and conservation specialists from eight neighboring countries have joined their Peruvian counterparts in Cusco this week to draw up a South American heritage action plan 2015-2020. The aim is to to define conservation strategies to be applied in each country and focus on certain priorities that will improve compliance with the World Heritage Convention, signed in 1972.
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In Rudyard Kipling's 1889 book From Sea to Sea - a collection of the author's letters and travel reports - he described Pisco as, "the highest and noblest product of the age," and "composed of cherubs' wings, the glory of tropical dawn, the red clouds of sunset, and fragments of lost masterpieces by dead poets". This white brandy of Peruvian origin is the result of distilling grapes from the arid Andean terrain into a high-proof spirit.
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A visitors' center will be built shortly in the valley close to Inca citadel of Machu Picchu in order to accommodate domestic and international tourists willing to admire this archaeological monument while in this area.
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 Gnarly scenes have been unfolding at Peru's famed La Pampilla beach, where riot police have clashed with surfers fighting to stop a coastal highway project they say will ruin their world-class waves. The beach, a magnet for international surfers that has been the training ground of several world champions, is a narrow stretch of rocky Pacific coast abutted by the Costa Verde highway.
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 According to a 2011 article published in El Comercio, Lima city residents lose an average US$ 1,600 annually due to traffic. Additionally, their health suffers each time black smoke is coming out of the exhaust of a vehicle. When it comes to personal mobilization, why not save time, money and your health by taking a short cut? Imagine, going to the grocery store, to work, to visit friends, or to a cafe in half the time. Busy con Bicis, a three-man company that rents and sells commuter bicycles is trying to make this a reality for those in Lima.
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.jpg?ve=1&tl=1) The lung-searing ascents into the Andean highlands aren't what worry the untold hundreds of young men who hump backpacks loaded with drugs out of the remote, lawless valley that produces about 60 percent of Peru's cocaine. Armed gangs, crooked police and rival backpacker groups regularly rob cocaine's beasts of burden on their three- to five-day journeys over mountain paths carved by their pre-Incan ancestors.
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