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Ahmet Uzumcu, Director-General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), has received today Fernando Gonzalez Bermudez, Cuban Deputy Minister of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA), who is visiting this city.

The 11th Cuban Congress on Anesthesiology, Revival and Pain entitled “Cubaestesia 2017” to be held in Havana with discussions on the implication of anesthesia techniques in senior citizens, obese and critical patients when they require surgery with certain complications.

The balance of resources, hydrocarbon reserves, and the comprehensive exploration in land sectors of the Strip of Heavy Crude Oils in Northern Cuba, is today one of the study guidelines of CEINPET.

As part of its intention to taking Internet services to Cuban homes, the Cuban Telecommunications Company (Etecsa), as of September 29, will continue to commercialize the Nauta Hogar service, incorporating it gradually, and until the month of December, to all the provinces of the country.

Havana, Cuba.-More than 630 Internet halls throughout the country, 370 public sites to access Wi-FI and four million users with access to social networks are some of the main achievements in Cuba toward computerization of its society. We are making progress regarding the creation of capacities for Internet access by the population, with a view […]

Havana, Cuba.-Cuba closed the first six months of 2017 with an infant mortality rate of 4.1 deaths per one thousand live births, an indicator only comparable to some countries of the so-called First World, Granma newspaper reported. Roberto Álvarez Fumero, head of the Cuban Mother-children program of the Ministry of Public Health, told the Cuban […]

Havana, Cuba.-The 1st Symposium of Thermal waters and Spa Therapy is being held today in the sphere of the II International Congress of Aesthetics, Cosmetology and Aesthetic Medicine, which is being held in this capital with attendees from about 10 countries. According to the agenda, in the symposium is scheduled a Masterly Conference by the […]

Havana, cuba.-gro-ecology as a method of obtaining healthy products will be promoted by the 5th Congress of the Cuban Association of Agricultural and Forestry Technicians (Actaf), which will be held this month, its organizers reported Wednesday. Cooperartive members thank the laudable vision of the directions and trainings of the Actaf, linking the production of various […]

Havana, Cuba.-Over 11 international cooperation projects for an amount of about $11 million USD have been developed in recent years by the Cuban Association of Agricultural and Forest Technicians (ACTAF). These programs are closely related to the strengthening of scientific and technical capacity, agro-ecological articulation, sustainable agriculture design, start-up of mini-industries, among other issues, according […]

Havana, cuba.-Protected areas are natural solutions to the global challenges related to climate change, the director of National Natural Parks in Colombia, Julia Miranda, said today. Such preservation of natural spaces will help face problems as soil degradation, food security, access to water, health and welfare, asserted Miranda during the opening conference to the 11th […]

Moscow, Russia.-First Cuban specialists graduate as masters in geology, oil drilling and exploitation at Gubkin University as part of the cooperation program between Cubapetroleo and Russian Rosneft. Cuban ambassador in Russia, Emilio Lozada Garcia thanked the university and the oil company Rosneft for preparing these specialists as part of the collaboration program with his country. […]

Havana, Cuba.-The expenditure in Cuba in Scientific and Technological Activities (ACT), in the year 2016, reached 781.8 million pesos, reported today the official from the Cuban Ministry of Sciences, Technology and Environment (CITMA), Armando Rodriguez. In a press conference, the director for science and technology from that ministry explained that 84 percent of that total […]

Beijing, China.-Cuban People’s Power National Assembly President (ANPP), Esteban Lazo Hernandez, has reviewed here today the progress and exchanges in biotechnology with the Chinese side, a relevant pillar in the ties between both countries. During a visit carried out today to the Cuban-Chinese joint venture Biotech Pharmaceuticals Co.LTD, located in the Special Development Zone of […]

San Jose, Costa Rica.-Jose Antonio Aragon, member of Costa Rica”s Board of Directors on Planning and Power Development of Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE), presented in Cuba how his country is fostering the use of renewable energy. Aragon delivered the lecture ‘Costa Rica: a Renewable Electricity Country’ at a two-day international conference on the subject […]

Vienna, Austria.- Cuba and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have signed today a technical cooperation agreement for the coming years with priorities in specific areas of greatest benefit to the island. The document, entitled National Programme Framework with IAEA for technical cooperation with Cuba’, was signed by Daniel Lopez, president of the Agency of […]

Havana, Cuba.-The role of renewable energy in the economic and sustainable development of Cuba was highlighted by participants in a world conference on this field, opened today and attended by some 200 delegates from more than 20 countries. Joel Morales, President of the Organizing Committee of the 9th International Conference on Renewable Energy, Energy Saving […]

Havana, Cuba.-Experts from some 20 countries are participating here from today to June 2nd at the Ninth International Conference on Renewable Energy, Energy Saving and Energy Education, CIER 2017, in which the main progress in the field will be present. Important speakers, ministers of energy and mines and agriculture, presidential advisor to Nicaragua Rappaccioli Baltodano, […]