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On a global level of conventions, Peru is 39th and the city of Lima is 35th according to the ICCA. 

Economy & Trade

The Asian markets offer better opportunities for the high-quality Peruvian products when it comes to profit.

The potential Asian buyers could pay up to 40% higher prices in comparison with what is paid in other destinations for the same product, the President of government-run Sierra Exportadora program Alfonso Velasquez said.

China is diversifying its presence in South America to Peru and other countries with less socialist-leaning governments, The Financial Times reported, citing academics' analyses. Concerns have grown about about China's model of lending secured against commodities, according to Li Renfang, Latin American analyst at Southwest University of Science and Technology in Sichuan. 
 


Mining & Energy


The Constancia mine started up commercial production of copper in Peru last April, the Canadian mining company HudBay Minerals announced. 



Peru's energy and mines minister said on Monday that she has halted talks with Southern Copper Corp over its stalled $1.4 billion Tia Maria project until the miner explains its role in possible "wrongdoing."

The government has also summoned German Larrea, the chief executive of Southern Copper's parent company, Grupo Mexico , to the capital Lima to clarify the matter.


 

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Peru Govt. ensures Tia Maria mining project not to affect Arequipa agricultural sector 



Contract workers at Peruvian Buenaventura's silver mine Uchucchacua went on strike to press for better working conditions, the company said on Monday in a filing with the country's market regulator.

The mine produced 12 million ounces of silver in 2014 and the company had forecast a 25 percent increase in 2015.


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Development


 

The President of the National Center for Strategic Planning (Ceplan) Victor Vargas emphasized the need to learn from Peru's neighboring countries experiences, in order to strengthen team work required to fully join the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD).
 

Conservation



Peru's National Forest and Wildlife Service is drawing up a National Action Plan toward the preservation of the Andean bear and various workshops to boost the monitoring of this species, which is currently in a vulnerable situation. 

Education


Peru's Center Macro Region's 1,567 education sector's project portfolio are "viable" since June 1, 2012.
Those require an investment worth S/.3.878 billion (around US$1.232 million) and could be executed through the mechanism known as "Works for Taxes," the National Chamber of Trade, Production and Services (Peruc�maras) announced today.

Politics




Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao met with visiting President of the Peruvian Nationalist Party Nadine Heredia Alarcon in Beijing on Tuesday.

Li said the smooth development of China-Peru relations since the two countries forged diplomatic ties in November 1971 highlighted leaders' consensus on establishing an all-round strategic partnership.

The Communist Party of China has placed great importance on developing ties with the Peruvian Nationalist Party and would like to share more experience on state governance, Li said.

Diplomacy



The current Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, Li Keqiang, will pay an official visit to Peru on May 22-24. 



Malaysia is a beautiful country, and Peru this Week was lucky enough to speak with the official representative!
We met with Ambassador Datuk Ayauf Bachi of Malaysia in his beautiful office compound in San Isidro. The Ambassador, a diplomat serving in South America for his first time, gave us many reasons as to why his country was attractive for people near the age of retirement.
 




Literature



Mario Vargas Llosa, perhaps the greatest living writer, has trained his pen on the dark alleys and dimly lit streets of Lima.

Possibly because so many critics are quick to refer to Mario Vargas Llosa as "Our greatest living man of letters," they are slow to acknowledge that he is also our greatest living novelist. His writing career spans more than five decades (his first novel, The Time of the Hero, was published in 1963). Over that time, Vargas Llosa is the only current writer I can think of-V.S. Naipaul not excepted-who is entirely worthy of the Nobel Prize for either nonfiction or fiction.  He has been so prolific and so versatile that it would be difficult to get a handle on his work outside of a college course devoted entirely to him.

Gastronomy



We at the El Reg post-pub nosh team are taking a break from the kitchen this week, and bringing instead a report from deepest Peru on classic cuy chactado (deep-fried guinea pig), courtesy of my old pal Gavin Wright.

Tourism



In the Manu National Park we can find more than one species of birds. To visit this place and take part in birdwatching is a wonderful experience. Among all, the macaws are the most visited and popular. Offering a spectacle of color and sound in the middle of the rainforest, they are hard to miss.
 

Sports



Peruvian gymnast Mariana Chiarella obtained the bronze medal at the World Challenge Cup 2015 that took place in Varna, Bulgaria on May 07 - 09.

The silver medal was taken by the Panamanian Isabella Amado. The golden one was won by Swiss Ilaria Kaeslin.
The sports event was held at the Palace of Culture and Sports of Varna and gathered some 140 gymnasts from all over the world.


Ricardo Gareca's initial Copa America squad is heavily influenced by Peru-based players, with just one-third playing overseas.

Cesar Vallejo has five representatives in Peru's extended Copa America squad, which will be cut from 30 to 23 players.

Miscellaneous


Peruvian theologian Gustavo Guti�rrez, 86, will address the General Assembly of the Roman Catholic humanitarian charity Caritas in Rome this week. Guti�rrez spent many years under a cloud of suspicion as a priest and theologian because of his development of 'Liberation Theology', regarded by conservatives with considerable hostility. He was never formally censured for his views and this will not be the first time he has met Pope Francis since he took over from Benedict XVI, but it marks a further step in his road to respectability.


High street fashion retailer H&M has opened its first store in Peru.

More than 2,000 H&M fans queued for the launch in the country's Jockey Plaza mall. Spanning three floors, the store is one of the brand's biggest in the world and sells both fashion and homewares.



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