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Peru has jumped up 14 spots on the World Economic Forum's Human Capital Index for 2015 as it placed 61st in the global ranking and 7th in Latin America. |
Peru will be one of the few Latin American countries, which will see its middle class expand thanks to the entrepreneurship displayed by Peruvian citizens belonging to the said socioeconomic sector, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) representative in Peru Fidel Jaramillo affirmed.
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The economic growth registered in our country had a positive effect on labor informality reduction thanks to the creation of employment opportunities in the country, Peru's Finance Minister Alonso Segura affirmed.
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 Peru's Private Investment Promotion Agency (ProInversion) has the task from Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM) to conduct a bidding process to implement projects approved under the 2015-2024 Transmission Plan.
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 n S/.267 million (about US$84 million) investment will lead to implement sanitary landfills in 31 Peruvian cities, Peru's Environment Ministry (Minam) announced.Those said landfills will reduce the solid waste.
Such projects will be executed in cities: Huamanga, Bagua, Tarapoto and San Juan Bautista, confirmed Karla Bola�os, Solid-Waste Management specialist at Mimam.
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 Gold Oil Peru, the Peruvian subsidiary of the UK's Baron Oil, has contracted Houston-headquartered Geo Survey Systems for 180 kilometres of onshore 2D seismic in Peru. Valued at $1.5 million, the contract includes acquisition, processing and interpretation of seismic data. The contract is still pending approval by the Peruvian government. The seismic work will be conducted at block 21, which has a size of more than 3,000 square kilometres. The company said in a press release it had drilled exploration wells in the northern part of the block in 2006 and 2008. These proved dry, but suggested the presence of promising reservoir rocks. The company said the seismic work would concentrate on the in the southern part of the block in the area around the Minchales well, which was drilled and logged in 1954.
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 Peruvian Prime Minister Pedro Cateriano will attend the Congress today to inform of the events occurred in Islay province in Arequipa as part of the protests against mining project Tia Maria.
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 Protests against a copper mining project in southern Peru have left a dozen people injured and spread to other parts of the region. Demonstrators in Cocachacra, at the epicentre of the conflict, threw stones at police, who responded with tear gas.
Twelve people were reported injured, and authorities said protests had erupted in other cities, including the regional capital of Arequipa. More:
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Peruvian photographer, Mario Gomi, has a photography project to challenge the mainstream highlights of the beautiful shorelines that stretches from the border with Ecuador down to Chile.
In "La Vida es Otra" or "Life is something else," Gomi combines his advanced skills of photography and diving to create an underwater gallery of what lies in the Peruvian sea.
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After a year of medical care, Huascar and Atahualpa, two condors found poisoned in Peru, are back to flying in the Lima sky. This is the first time a condor returns to its natural habitat tagged with satellite trackers to study their behavior. |
 The BBC reports that Peru's illegal wildlife trade is thriving, despite official efforts to curb it; putting the health and welfare of both animals and people at risk.
While some wildlife trade is legal, Peruvian and international law forbids the sale of endangered species-a global trade worth about US$ 19 billion a year, according to the World-Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
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Peru`s attorney general was sacked on Wednesday on suspicion of engaging incorruption while employed in an earlier post -- an unprecedented firing of the country`s top law enforcement official.
The decision against Carlos Ramos Heredia, who had been suspended from his job since December while the probe against him proceeded, was announced by a judicial oversight board. The vote in the six member body was 5-1.
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Russia and Peru are holding talks on modernizing T-55 tanks in Peru's military service but the two countries are not planning any new purchase contracts, a deputy director of the Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation told RIA Novosti on Friday.
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ANTONOV Company presents its modern programs at SITDEF 2015, one of the biggest exhibitions of Latin America that was open in Lima, Peru on May 14, 2015.
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The Government of Peru has already sent a diplomatic note to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, in which it clarifies Punto Concordia is the point on the map where the land border with Chile starts, rather than Punto 1, as it was recently affirmed by that country, Peruvian President Ollanta Humala informed. |
The President of ICOM (International Council of Museums), Hans-Martin Hinz, visited Chan Chan citadel located in Peru's La Libertad region and defined the archaeological site architecture as "magnificent" by comparing it to the ancient Roman city of Pompeii (Italy).
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The ambitious Peruvian film "Desaparecer" (Disappear) arrives in movie theaters today.Peruvian films go through a renaissance phase, something impossible to imagine a few years ago. The film was directed by Dorian Fernandez, who was also in charge of movies "Cementerio General" and "Secreto Matusita." "It was an enriching but difficult experience, which demanded the team's courage," the filmmaker told Andina news agency.
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The 28th National Festival of Pisco will be held in Lima on July 17-19.
It aims at boosting the positioning of the aforementioned drink in the domestic market, the Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism, Magali Silva, affirmed.
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The bridge was built during colonial times, where it served the locals to cross the Huancabamba river.
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 Peruvian taekwondist Julissa Diez Canseco triumphed at the 2015WTF World Taekwondo Championships in Chelyabinsk, Russia, after winning 5th placae in the 49kg category.
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