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International Fair Analyzes Innovations for Work Designs in Cuba

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A new day of business exchanges and exhibitions will characterize today the International Construction Fair in Cuba, FECONS 2018, where, among other issues, innovative design solutions will be addressed. The biannual meeting involves 26 countries, including Spain, Italy and Cuba, as most represented countries and others such as Hungary, Brazil, Panama, Mexico, which will interact with the 124 companies attending the PABEXPO exhibition site until April 6.

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The first requirement: To make the most of the land

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It is necessary to sow more, but also to harvest more; there are crops on which it is necessary to continue working to achieve greater or superior results. In the case of tobacco, for example, today an average of just over one ton per hectare is obtained, and it is necessary to reach two tons.

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China and its challenge, looking to the future

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In China, they say Mao Zedong made the country free, Deng Xiaoping made it “rich,” and Xi Jinping made it a superpower.

The current Chinese head of state, and his vision of how the giant country’s productive forces can be unleashed, has had a great impact among citizens, and his leadership consolidated, at the head of the government and the Communist Party of China (CPC).

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Minister Assures a New Era in Vietnam-Cuba Trade After Trong’s Visit

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The visit to Cuba of the Secretary General of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Nguyen Phu Trong, opens a new chapter in our trade and cooperation relations, assured today here the Minister of Industry and Trade, Tran Tuan Anh. One of the most important results was reaching a consensus between this portfolio and that of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment of Cuba.

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Cuba Takes First Steps in Online Trade

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Cuban trade is currently undergoing a reformulation that includes online transactions, which will place the island in better positions for consumption indicators. A report issued on Monday in Cubadebate news website highlights that from next summer Cubans may buy online in Cuban pesos (CUP).

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Key Santa María, Host of FITCuba 2018

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The 38th International Tourism Fair of Cuba (FITCuba 2018) will have at the beginning of May a very particular scenario claimed today by travelers worldwide for their vacations: Key Santa Maria. Located in Cuba’s north-central coastline, it is one of the most attractive proposals of Cuban tourism, understandably in fashion, due to its beauties and infrastructure.

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Let nothing affect the sweet taste of honey

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Its consolidation as an exportable item has determined increasing efforts in Cuba to improve knowledge and training among beekeepers, in pursuit of more efficient handling of this product. In this sense, the Cuban Apiculture Company has drawn up strategies that are based, above all, on direct contact with producers.

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Cuba Ready for International Tourism Fair FITCUBA

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Cuban authorities are arranging the preparations for the International Tourism Fair, FitCuba 2018, to be held from May 2 to 6 in the northern keys of Villa Clara province. The organizing committee of the event, the major fair of the national tourism industry, ‘holds a follow-up meeting of the event,’ the Cuban Ministry of Tourism (MINTUR) posts on its Facebook account today.

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The 60 Years of Tryp Habana Libre Hotel

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With the most central location in Cuba, the Tryp Habana Libre hotel turns 60 years old today, apart from exhibiting a very special value, cosmopolitanism. Managed in its beginnings by the U.S. chain Hilton, it is now under the tutelage of the Spanish Sol Meliá, and always since 1959 as Cuban property.

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Malnutrition threatens the world

Diagrama de Malnutrición

According to the 2017 Global Nutrition Report, two billion people lack key micronutrients like iron and vitamin A; 52 million children are wasted (low weight-for-height usually the result of acute significant food shortage and/or disease); 88% of countries face a serious burden of either two or three forms of malnutrition (childhood stunting, anemia in women of reproductive age and/or overweight in adult women); and “the world is off track to meet all global nutrition targets.”