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One Month To Go! ASU2025 Junior PanAm Games: Everything You Need To Know
The Asunción Times
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July 9, 2025
Exactly one month from now, the ASU2025 Junior Pan American Games will start in Paraguay’s capital Asunción. From August 9 to 23, 2025, the multi-sport event will feature over 4,000 young athletes from 41 countries across the Americas, competing...
Paraguay Boosts Development With US$690M For Infrastructure, US$500M For Healthcare
The Asunción Times
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July 5, 2025
Paraguay is currently advancing over US$690 million worth of public infrastructure investment across all 17 departments, marking a significant step in the country’s development. These large-scale initiatives include major upgrades in road...
Nostalgia Unleashed: Erreway Returns To Paraguay After 22 Years!
The Asunción Times
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July 6, 2025
After more than twenty years, the iconic Argentine pop-rock group Erreway is making a long-awaited return to Paraguay! With their ‘Juntos Otra Vez’ (Together Again) Tour, the beloved band reunites as a trio, featuring Benjamín Rojas, Camila...
Diego Leon, 18, is the youngest of nine children who grew up playing football with 'a piece of cloth' in rural Paraguay... now the £7m wonderkid is seen as a vital cog in Manchester United's future
Daily Mail
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July 6, 2025
Manchester United's search to bolster their options at left back has taken them to Paraguay and, more specifically, to Cerro Porteno. Highly rated young left-back Diego Leon has signed for Manchester United in a deal worth £7million, making him...
“Paraguayos fetch the same prices as nectarines, as is usually the case”
Fresh Plaza
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July 4, 2025
With production down to 40–50% of its normal potential due to spring frosts, the season for Greek paraguayos is moving forward. According to Mr. Yiannis Georgiou, sales manager at KOMEX: "June ended with the Platifirst and UFO 4 varieties...
Paraguay’s Beef Exports Surge To Over US$1 Billion In Remarkable First Half Of 2025
The Asunción Times
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July 4, 2025
Paraguay’s beef industry is booming! The National Animal Health and Quality Service (SENACSA) reports that over US$1,056,135,495 worth of beef exports were recorded in the first six months of 2025. That is a whopping 37% increase compared to the...
World News | PM Modi Discusses Defence, Agriculture, and Trade with Argentina President
Latestly
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July 6, 2025
Buenos Aires [Argentina], July 6 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Argentine President Javier Milei discussed enhancing collaboration in several key areas, including defence, agriculture, and trade. Addressing a press briefing after the...
PM Modi discusses defence, agriculture, and trade with Argentina President
California Telegraph
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Buenos Aires [Argentina], July 6 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Argentine President Javier Milei discussed enhancing collaboration in several key areas, including defence, agriculture, and trade. Addressing a press briefing after the...
Tariffs cut on 19 on Paraguayan products
Taipei Times
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July 5, 2025
Taiwan yesterday began offering preferential tariffs on 19 products imported from Paraguay in line with a resolution signed in August last year as part of the Economic Cooperation Agreement (ECA) between the two countries, the Ministry of Economic...
Paraguay Air Force Accepts Four Super Tucano Aircraft From Embraer
The Defense Post
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July 3, 2025
Brazilian aerospace firm Embraer has delivered four A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft to the Paraguayan Air Force under a contract signed in 2024. Asunción received the planes during a ceremony at Silvio Pettirossi International Airport in...
How will the Europe-Mercosur deal impact food?
Food Navigator
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A European deal with Mercosur – a bloc which includes Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay – was finally signed this month. However, while the deal may have been European, it was not in fact with the EU. The deal was actually done between...
Taiwan grants preferential tariffs to 19 Paraguayan products
Focus Taiwan
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July 5, 2025
Taipei, July 5 (CNA) Taiwan began offering preferential tariff treatment on 19 products imported from Paraguay on Saturday, under a resolution signed last year as part of the Economic Cooperation Agreement (ECA) between the two countries, the...
Paraguayan Air Force receives four A-29 Super Tucano aircraft
Airforce Technology
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July 2, 2025
The Paraguayan Air Force (FAP) has received the first four A-29 Super Tucano aircraft from Brazilian aerospace company Embraer, which will modernise the service’s operational capabilities. The handover took place at Silvio Pettirossi Air Force...
Uranium Energy (UEC) Boosts Anfield Energy Stake to 32.4%
Yahoo Finance
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July 3, 2025
Uranium Energy Corp. (NYSE:UEC) is one of the top 10 nuclear energy stocks to invest in for the next decade. The company revealed on June 20 that it had acquired an additional 170 million common shares of Anfield Energy. Uranium Energy (UEC)...
What South American Audiences Are Loving Most in 2025
MercoPress
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Wednesday, July 9th 2025 - 03:00 UTC Photo: Sophie Laurent on Unsplash South American entertainment in 2025 offers a unique glimpse into the cultures of some of the most vibrant countries in the world. 2025 has seen South Americans enjoy the...
Paraguay’s Minimum Wage Increased, Lifting Incomes To Gs. 2.9M
The Asunción Times
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July 2, 2025
As of Tuesday, July 1, 2025, Paraguay’s minimum wage has increased to Gs. 2,899,048 (approximately US$365.00) per month. President Santiago Peña officially signed Decree No. 4,122/25, raising the current minimum wage by Gs. 100,739 (around...
Paraguayan President outlines his administration's achievements
MercoPress
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Wednesday, July 2nd 2025 - 10:29 UTC Peña also urged some lawmakers to put the common good at the center of their efforts Paraguayan President Santiago Peña delivered his second management report to Congress, highlighting his administration's...
Argentina and Paraguay Plan Direct Gas Pipeline to Brazil, Bypassing Bolivia
The Rio Times
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July 4, 2025
Argentina and Paraguay are working together on a plan to build a new gas pipeline that would send natural gas from Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale fields directly to Brazil, passing through Paraguay. This project, announced at the Mercosur summit in...
Business : Uruguay Urges Stronger Engagement Between ASEAN, MERCOSUR
Bernama
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July 9, 2025
By Nur Atiq Maisarah Suhaimi KUALA LUMPUR, July 9 (Bernama) -- Uruguay’s Foreign Minister Mario Lubetkin has called for deeper cooperation between ASEAN and the South American economic bloc, MERCOSUR, emphasising the need to move beyond dialogue...
Ñandeva’s Origins: Two Friends, One Vision, And Paraguay’s Essence
The Asunción Times
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July 4, 2025
A casual conversation during lockdown sparked an innovative venture that is transforming how Paraguayans enjoy their beloved tereré drink, whilst honouring ancient Guaraní traditions. The result of that conversation, and the dedicated efforts of...