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Cusco may not host APEC if decides to strike in July

(LIP-do) -- APEC 2008 High-Level Commission Chairman, Vice-Admiral Luis Giampietri, assured today that it would be a pity that Cusco might not host the upcoming Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting if local unions decide to join the strike organized by General Workers Confederation of Peru (CGTP) on July 9th. "It would be a pity that Cusco looses the opportunity to be an APEC venue for a second time. I hope that this strike doesn’t occur", said Giampietri.

He added that the people of Cusco haven’t been asked about the region’s participation in this strike. "I urge the people of Cusco to defend their privileges and image, specially because no one will understand why Peru’s most famous tourist place is not being used as an APEC venue", he detailed. Giampietri added that many tourists visiting Peru due to APEC meetings ask why we are not using Cusco as one of the venues. "I hope people of Cusco understand this and greet with affection the people who come to our country to invest in it", he said.

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Immigration experts from APEC countries to meet in Lima

(LIP-do) -- Several immigration experts from Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) countries will meet on August 14 - 15 in Lima to share their experiences during a workshop called "Extranjero frecuente y seguridad fronteriza" (Regular foreigner and border security) to be held at the National Museum. The head of Digemin, Juan Alvarez Manrique, said this workshop will be beneficial for attendees to learn from experts with experience in this field, so they can apply these concepts and results to daily work.
       
Alvarez Manrique pointed out that one of the most important issues to be tackled during said meeting will be biometric security which uses measurements of human characteristics to confirm identity. "A biometric security system reads fingerprints or carries out retinal scans. In Peru, we don't have this technology yet, but this workshop will help us to achieve our plans", he said to Andina news agency. Alvarez mentioned that Digemin's initiative to organize this workshop was approved by APEC representatives last year.


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Around 70 APEC delegates to attend academic meeting in Piura

(LIP-do) -- About 70 delegates from universities of the 21 world economies will meet tomorrow Thursday to participate of the “APEC Peru 2008 ASCC Meeting”, event of the Academic Community of the Asia-Pacific Cooperation Forum (APEC), which will take place at the University of Piura.

The meeting that will last until Friday 20, is organized by the Peruvian Network for Asia Pacific Studies (Redap), integrated by a group of prestigious national universities, among them the University of Piura. The professor of the Faculty of Economics and Business and representative of Redap, Guillermo Cangahuala, indicated the working table is important because academics will discuss, among other topics, how APEC member countries can increase the trade, investment and cooperation relations.
         
“The meeting goal is to reflect, with a technical perspective, on topics of international trade among the APEC member economies, besides other topics of world interest and significant for governors, politicians, civil society, and the academic community in general”, he stated. Cangahuala indicated the University of Piura is pleased to host such important international event and said it has been provided with all needed resources to insure the success of the meeting.

Redap, which was created on August 1997, has the purpose of contributing with an independent thinking for the generation and spreading of knowledge, as well as the taking of decisions in the aspects related to the country location in the Asia-Pacific and to its participation in events as APEC.

Think.com to promote education in Peru

(LIP-do) -- As part of the APEC (Asia- Pacific Economic Cooperation) activities, the Ministry of Education, the Oracle Education Foundation and the Association of Entrepreneurs for Education will launch Think.com program in Peru, a protected online community that facilitates learning. Think.com is an online community that facilitates project learning and the use of technology to help students develop vital skills for life and work in the 21st century.

The protected, teacher-mediated environment allows members to: collaborate on learning projects within their own class or with other schools globally; create web pages with text, pictures, multimedia components, and downloadable files; interact in online message boards, brainstorms, and debates; send messages within the protected community; participate in ThinkQuest, an international project learning competition; browse an extensive library of educational resources created by students for students.


Peru and Australia sign agreement to strengthen teacher's training

(LIP-do) -- A cooperation bilateral agreement that will allow improving and strengthening teacher's training was signed today by Peru and Australia ministers of Education in the framework of the 4th APEC Education Ministerial Meeting which ended today in Lima. The document - signed by the Peruvian minister Jose Antonio Chang and his counterpart of Australia, Maxine McKew - will help to strengthen the quality capacities and standards of superior education institutions supporting the training of the teachers, as well as the research and development of resources. To continue reading article, click here.


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APEC Education Ministers today sign joint declaration

(LIP-do) -- The Education Ministers of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) member economies will sign today a joint declaration which sets out the agreements reached and the contributions of each of the delegations participating in the 4th Education Ministerial Meeting. Yesterday, High-Level Commission Chairman, Vice-Admiral Luis Giampietri, said that the exchange of bilateral experiences between Peru and the other APEC Member Economies in the frame of the 4th APEC Education Ministerial Meeting is very important and opens huge possibilities to improve educational processes in Peru.

In this regard, he reminded that during the current Ministerial Meeting, bilateral meetings with Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and the United States would take place, which would bring as a consequence the signature of agreements related to the education sector. "These meetings and the exchange of experiences will bring a good opportunity for the different Economies to learn form each other", said Vice-Admiral Giampietri.


Chilean students interested in learning gastronomy in Peru

The Chilean students of gastronomy are very interested in learning this main subject in Peru, stated today the Chilean minister of Education, Sally Bendersky Schachner in the framework of an exchange policy of educative experiences among the countries of the region. Bendersky said that one of the purposes of Chile's educative policy is to subscribe agreements which allows Chilean students to study in Peru and vice versa.

"Our students are very interested in learning gastronomy in Peru and we could sing an agreement regarding this topic. We aim to study what we have called the "student mobility" and the exchange of experiences among the countries of the region”, she said. In addition, the Chilean minister stated, at a press conference, that in Chile the priority factor is the access of education for all the community, from the urban area and to themost remote zones, reaching an increase in the number of students with superior education in the last years.


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Vice-President Giampietri opens 4th APEC Education Ministerial Meeting today

(LIP-do) -- Peruvian Vice President Luis Giampietri Rojas will open today the fourth Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation's Education Ministerial Meeting (AEMM) to be held at Lima’s National Museum. During today's opening ceremony, Giampietri will be accompanied by Peru’s Education minister, Jose Antonio Chang, who will give welcoming remarks at this event. Afterwards, Vice Education Minister Idel Vexler will present the forum "Competencias y Aptitudes para todos en el Siglo XXI" (Competencies and Attitudes for everybody in the 21st Century). Then, attendees will participate in plenary sessions focused on the following issues: Mathematics and Science, Technical Education Career, Language Learning and Systematic Reform of education.


Education Minister: Peru has started radical change in educational culture

(LIP-do) -- Peru's Education Minister, José Antonio Chang Escobedo, said today that Peru is undergoing a radical change in its educational culture, with the active participation of every institution interested in helping to improve education in the country. In his speech at the opening ceremony of the 4th APEC Education Ministerial Meeting (AEMM), Chang said that the reform efforts undertaken by the government are enormous and represent a major challenge for the country. To continue reading article, click here.


Educative quality and efficiency should go along with moral and ethic, says Vexler

(LIP-do) -- Educative competitivity and efficiency should go along with ethic, moral and values rather than the importance of the technological gap in the learning, stated today Peru’s vice minister of Pedagogical Management, Idel Vexler in the opening of the Education Pre-Ministerial Meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC). “There can’t be competitiveness if we don’t have a performance linked to the values and moral”, he stated before the 21 member economies which take part of this event. Vexler pointed out that Information and communication technologies will have to interact: "This is not about closing a digital gap in the learning field but closing an educative one, where the technologies are used as a tool for the optimum development of the students of our economies and countries."


News Source: Andina

Minister Chang to meet with APEC ministers to negotiate education agreements

(LIP-do) -- The minister of Education, José Antonio Chang, informed today he will hold bilateral meetings with five APEC ministers to start negotiations for signing technical assistance agreements in education, in the framework of APEC Education Ministerial Meeting (AEMM) which will take place in Lima on June 11th. Chang detailed he will meet with representatives of Education from Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the United States. These countries are member of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC).

Chang recalled that 19 ministers of Education will come to Peru due to APEC Education Ministerial Meeting (AEMM) and said that it will be a unique opportunity for Peruvians to know other educational experiences. Chang also stated that they will show the improvements made by Peru in the educational field. On the other hand, the minister of Education informed that at least 40 thousand teachers have received computers as part of the Program “Maestros Siglo XXI” which is partially financed by the government.


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Police officers to support transit viability during APEC in Chiclayo

(LIP-do) -- A police officers cordon will be located in the main routes of the Chiclayo City, in Lambayeque, to make easier transit during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (APEC) which will be held in August, in the Peru’s northern department. The head of the II Police Region of Lambayeque, Jorge Gonzáles, indicated the operative plan to be implemented in this city during the international summit will be presented officially next week. This event will congregate authorities and advisers of the 21 member economies of the Asia Pacific region. To read the rest of the article, click here.


Puno, Peru to promote business opportunities during APEC meetings

(LIP-do) -- In an attempt to promote investment opportunities in the southern Andean city of Puno, the Municipality of Puno is preparing informational materials about potential business opportunities in this city which will be handed out to foreign delegates attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings to be held in Puno in October. Katherine Harvey, coordinator of APEC meetings in Puno, explained that this document will show Puno's tourist and export offer. Five thousand brochures and 10 thousand CDs will be available for attendees. In terms of tourist activity, she said this material will show many of Puno's attractions such as cultural, homestay and esoteric tourism, as well as eco-tourism.

"In addition, the quality of exportable products such as quinoa, fiber and alpaca meat, trout, coffee, milk products and charqui", she added. Also, it will display the various economic activities which take place in the department as mining, gold and silver jewelry and products made from leather."We can not miss this important opportunity to show the world what Puno has to offer," he said.


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Arequipa received 2 million dollars during meetings last month; cameras installed for November's meetings

(LIP-do) -- Luis Giampietri Rojas, President of the APEC 2008 High Level Extraordinary Commission (CEAN), informed the public that the APEC meetings held last month during the Businessoman's meeting in Arequipa generated 2 million dollars thanks to the investments in tourism, food consumption and lodging of the delegates. He mentioned that the same could be said thanks to the APEC Senior Officials Meeting II (SOM II), also held in Arequipa last month. These investments brought more business and jobs for Peruvians in the region, he stated.

Giampietri Rojas also stated that a Center of Operations is to be implemented for the November APEC meetings. This center would count with 50 security cameras which would monitor the hotels, routes of transport and respective venues for the APEC reunions.


Local authorities give details of APEC Education Ministerial Meeting

(LIP-do) -- Peruvian vice-minister of Institutional Management, Víctor Raúl Díaz Chávez and the organizing commission of the IV APEC Education Ministerial Meeting (AEMM) will today give details concerning this APEC ministerial meeting to be held in Lima form June 10 to 12. The goal of the APEC Education Ministerial Meeting is to better achieve 21st Century Competencies for All Students through benchmarking policies and practices among APEC members and providing research-based practices and online instructional tools. The venue for the 4th APEC Education Ministerial Meeting will be the Museo de la Nación (Peruvian National Museum).


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Peru, China to speed up FTA talks

(LIP-do) -- China and Peru will speed up talks on reaching a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between both countries, assured the Minister of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China, Chen Deming. “We will step up the pace of FTA negotiations because we aim to get this deal signed as soon as possible”, he told Andina news agency. Minister Chen Deming said he is satisfied with the progress of bilateral negotiations because the technical teams of both nations work hard to achieve this goal. To keep reading article, click here.


APEC to strengthen integration to reach free trade area

(LIP-do) -- APEC's 21 member economies are committed to join forces to strengthen their integration so as to have a free trade area in the long term, reported today the minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism, Mercedes Aráoz "We will make a huge effort to strengthen our integration capacity in the region", she said during closing ceremony of the APEC Meeting of Ministers Responsible for Trade (MRT), held in Arequipa. She stated Peru has contributed to this purpose working on documents and base studies to find model chapters to help APEC integration. In this sense, she explained that the MRT approved three model chapters which include measures about non-linking issues for APEC economies, such as competence policies, environment and temporal migration of business leaders.


Peru beefs up security in Lambayeque for APEC Meetings

Peruvian Minister of the Interior, Luis Alva Castro, said today that the Peruvian government will enhance security measures in Lambayeque by sending 50 additional patrol vehicles to this northern region of Peru which is to host a series of APEC meetings in August this year. Minister Alva Castro made these statements during the first extraordinary session of the Regional Committee on Public Safety of Lambayeque which aims at reviewing and discussing the necessary measures to ensure security in this region. To continue reading article, click here.


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