Peru

Peru court restores state oversight over China’s Cosco mega-port in win for US

The new Chinese-funded Chancay megaport in Peru exemplifies China's strategic infrastructure approach in Latin America.

US-China rivalry in Latin America: a race for influence

China is Peru’s top trading partner and the main buyer of its No 1 export, copper, while Peruvians buy all sorts of Chinese goods, from textiles to electronics to cars.

Shipping giants race to speed up China-Peru trade with new route

The call for projects operationalises an implementation agreement signed by the two nations on Apr 1. 

Singapore, Peru open applications for projects to generate carbon credits

It is now extinct, but its teeth once spanned up to 8.9 cm in length, while adults could grow to nearly seven metres in length – the size of a small boat.

Great white shark’s nine-million-year-old ancestor found in Peru

Peruvian President Dina Boluarte and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend an inauguration event for the Chancay mega-port at the Government Palace in Lima.

Xi inaugurates South America's first Chinese-funded port in Peru

Cosco Shipping Ports owns and will operate the port with a 60 per cent stake, with the remaining 40 per cent held by Peruvian miner Volcan, which is controlled by Glencore.

Peru’s Chinese-built mega port to soft launch in late November with Shanghai route

Fujimori’s health deteriorated rapidly after completing treatment for tongue cancer in August.
OBITUARY

Peru’s ex-president Alberto Fujimori dies at 86

The mummies’ skulls still had hair on them. The remains were found alongside ceramics.

Peru archaeologists unearth 1,000-year-old mummies of children in Lima