Havana, April 18 (RHC) -- Cubans today are mourning the death of Nobel-winning Colombian author, Gabriel García Márquez, a great friend of this Caribbean nation and its leader Fidel Castro. García Marquez passed away on Thursday at the age of 87 in Mexico City.... More


Buenos Aires, April 18 (RHC) – An academic event on the life and work of the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, will take place next week in the Argentinean capital, Buenos Aires, local media reported.... More


Islamabad, April 18 (RHC) – Cuba has invited the Pakistani business community to explore trade opportunities in an upcoming international expo being held in Havana. The Pakistani business community has a chance to build bridges with participants from the seventy countries that are taking part in this mega event, said Ambassador of Cuba to Pakistan, Jesús Zenen Buergo Concepción.... More


Tokyo, April 18 (RHC) – Representatives of Japan and Cuba debated in Tokyo possibilities for mutual cooperation favoring business people of the two countries, Prensa Latina news agency reported on Thursday.... More


Havana, April 17 (RHC) – Cuba on Wednesday published the full text of a newly approved foreign investment law that seeks to make it more attractive for foreign investors to do business in the country.... More


Havana, April 17 (RHC) -- Workers and executives of Radio Havana Cuba commemorated on Wednesday the announcement by Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro of the creation of this shortwave radio station on April 16, 1961.... More


Havana, April 17 (RHC) – Cuba has declared Good Friday an official national holiday, according to the new Labor Code, passed by the National Assembly of People's Power in December.... More


Havana, April 17 (RHC) -- Cuba's health ministry is urging vulnerable citizens to undergo HIV tests more often, revealing that 2,156 new cases of HIV/AIDS were registered last year, according to a report by the weekly newspaper Trabajadores.... More


Hanoi, April 17 (RHC) -- Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Hoan Trung Hai on Wednesday paid a visit to the Cuban exhibition stand at the Expo Vietnam International Fair underway in the capital Hanoi.... More


Havana, April 16 (RHC) -. On this April 16 the Cuban people are commemorating the proclamation of the socialist character of the Revolution in 1961, on the eve of the mercenary invasion of Playa Girón, in Bay of Pigs.... More


Havana, April 16 (RHC) – Cuba produces five percent of its energy from renewable sources, and 90 percent of that amount comes from the sugar industry, said the vice president of the CUBASOLAR agency, Julio Torres. ... More


Havana, April 16 (RHC) – A second stage of the 53rd National Polio Campaign, which includes over one and a half million Cuban children, will begin Friday, April 25th throughout the island, according to the Ministry of Health.... More


Havana, April 16 (RHC) – In Havana on Tuesday, Venezuelan communicator Walter Martinez, creator of the successful program Dossier broadcast by the Telesur television network, received the Felix Elmuza Medal, the top award given by the Association of Cuban Journalists (UPEC) to national and foreign professionals in this field. ... More


Brasilia, April 16 (RHC) – Cuban writer Abel Prieto, advisor to Cuban President Raul Castro, arrived on Tuesday in Brasilia to participate in the Second Book and Reading Biennial, which will end on April 21st in Brazil. ... More


Havana, April 16 (RHC) – Documentaries and research works on African-American culture and tradition in the world are presented in the 13th International Conference on African and African-American Culture, under way in Santiago de Cuba until Wednesday. ... More


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