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Cuba and Surinam have laid the bases to continue working together with the recent signing of the 'Agreed Minutes,' that covers several cooperation projects.

Cuban scientists from nine institutions met this week to analyze the possibilities to produce ethanol from sugarcane byproducts and other alternative sources without sacrificing food.

Camagüey was added to the list of provinces that offers Refractive Surgery services in Cuba, which main object is to treat sight conditions such as: myopia, hipermetropia, and astigmatism.

The mountainous Cuban municipality of Guama will be the first in the country to be fully supplied with electricity produced by 17 hydro-electric generators.

Using 1400 centistokes of national crude oil at the "Lidio Ramón Pérez" Thermoelectric Plant (CTE, in Spanish), has saved the country nearly 20 million US dollars in Felton, Mayarí, Holguin in 2007.

Cuban Deputy Minister of Foreign Investment and Economic Cooperation ''MINVEC'', Orlando Requejo Gual, arrived on Thursday in Paramaribo.

The Fifth International Symposium on Sustainable Management of Forest Resources will take place in the westernmost province of Pinar del Rio on April 23-26 with the participation of researches and specialists from nearly 20 countries.

Three Chinese TV channels are being broadcast in 45,400 hotel rooms in Cuba.

Though the facts are not widely reported around the world, Cuba supplies aid to a number of countries and one of the biggest aid schemes is in Bolivia.

Cuba will only jump on the ethanol bandwagon if it can produce the biofuel from sugar cane as a by-product that does not affect its sugar output, local experts said.

Cuba will reduce this year the importation of ground gypsum used in the production of cement while it makes efforts to completely eliminate the purchase of this mineral abroad.