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The Cuban eastern province of Las Tunas has produced some 18 million liters of milk in the current 2007, it surpassed in more than one million 634 thousand what it gathered in same stage last year.

Higinio Velez, head of the Cuban Baseball Federation, announced on Wednesday that everything is ready for the beginning of the 47th edition of the Cuban National Baseball Championship with the game between defending champions Santiago de Cuba and 2007 runner-up Industriales.

Nearly 150 children born with malformations of the heart in the central Cuban province of Sancti Spiritus have undergone surgery after the creation of the cardiology-pediatric system throughout the island over twenty years ago.

The curator of Havana's Wilfredo Lam Art Gallery, Pepe Fernandez, is in Kenya to fulfill cultural accords between that East African nation and Cuba.

The news that some of the best films by Italian filmmaker Mario Monicelli would be screened this week in Havana made headliners on most cultural sections of the Cuban media.

In a letter revealed on Wednesday, the US-Cuba Cultural Exchange Network urged W. Bush to lift the restrictions between both countries.

The "José Antonio Fernández de Castro" Cultural Journalism Award was created by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Cuba in 1999.

The group, that received last October the title Goodwill Ambassador of the UNICEF, will make a tour through the zones affected in eastern Cuba by he rains of the tropical storm Noel.

The space Fe de Vida, conduced by the poet Aitana Alberti at the Dulce Maria Loynaz Cultural Center presented the documentary "Memoria de la fiebre. Vida y Obra de Carilda Oliver Labra" ("Memory of the fever. Life and work of Carilda Oliver Labra").

In the text, spread today at the UNESCO headquarter in Paris and simultaneously in New York and New Delhi, Cuba is ranked 23 out of 129 countries, with Norway the most advanced and Chad the most backward nation.

The First International Symposium on Latin American and Caribbean Masonry will take place in Havana from December 5-8.

Cuba would like to develop relations with the European Union (EU) based on mutual respect and non interference, said Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Eumelio Caballero during the opening session of the 14th International Conference on European Studies that began Tuesday in Havana.

It had to be so, according to the position of both in the world rankings, where the Cuban is in 30th place and the European isnt in the first hundred. Thats why Leinier came out aggressive from the beginning and in 29 moves destroyed the Sicilian defense employed by his opponent.

The conferences and presentations were about different topics, such as the translators of theatre plays, the building of a poetic world through translation, the dilemma of getting the reader closer to the text of other way around and about "Misterio: (Mystery), the first novel translated by Jose Mart.

The need of a bigger attention and preservation of the historic memory of Cuba in the audiovisual media was one of the most repeated criteria by cinema, radio and TV creators.