<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, July 30 (Reuters) - A Chinese-built drilling rig is expected to arrive in Cuban waters in early 2011, likely opening the open the way for full-scale exploration of the island's untapped offshore fields. Read More
<p style="text-align: justify;">Oriente is the steamy, jungle-dense, tourism-free side of Cuba – it is also where Fidel Castro grew up. Lydia Bell visits his family's finca. Read More
The Cuban government is raising safety requirements for offshore drilling, Basic Industry Minister Yadira García told the national assembly Thursday. Read More
The health ministry is setting up a nationwide network of medical labs to regularly test the health of large swaths of the population, the director of the Havana-based Centro de Inmunoensayo told the healthcare commission of the national parliament. Read More
Yang Jiechi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, will arrive this afternoon to Cuba, to complete a formal invitation. Read More
<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuba has registered a significant number of social achievements in the female sector, which will be recognized in the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). Read More
<p style="text-align: justify;">The United States urged Cuba on Friday to free a U.S. contractor held in Havana for nearly eight months on suspicion of espionage and subversion, saying he was unwell and had still not been formally charged. Read More
HAVANA, Cuba, Jul 30 (acn) American documentary maker Michael Moore awarded the Keys to the City to filmmaker Ian Padron and actress Mirtha Ibarra, both from Cuba, during the opening night of the Sixth Traverse City Film Festival. Read More