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Cuba's Arts Institute and Film Industry (ICAIC) will celebrate on March 24, 2009 its 50th birthday with new projects, said its President Omar Gonzalez.

Cuba is developing a strategy to increase phone and data management services, the introduction of terrestrial digital television and raising the stability and invulnerability of telecommunications.

Cuban results on the introduction of macrobiotic diets were presented by Dr. Carmen Porrata, head of the Carlos J. Finlay Institute project in this matter, at the First Macrobiotic Diets Congress, underway in Equatorial Guinea.

The yorubá or lucumí religion which is also known as Santeria or Regla de Osha is the most expanded religion of African origin in Cuba.

With the purpose of highlighting the Cuban culture’s deepest roots and strengthen unity between the island and other nations that share similar cultural backgrounds, the Fifth International Yoruba Conference will be held from July 17 to 20 in Havana.

Cuba’s First Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura met on Thursday with a visiting delegation from the Workers’ Party of Brazil (PT) that is led by its president, Ricardo Berzoini.

Cuba’s achievements in the field of genomic medicine will be showed during the 3rd International Congress on Hereditary Ataxia that will take place in the eastern province of Holguin from October 1-3 later this year.

As part of the celebrations for the 10th anniversary of Astana, the Cuban dancers Joel Carreño and Yolanda Correa were invited, among many other famous figures of the international ballet, to take part in the Cultural Ceremony held at the Peace Palace of the new Kazakhstan capital city.

Convinced that Cuba is an ideal destination for cultural tourism, the organization Canada-Cuba Sports & Cultural Festivals celebrated in Havana two decades of joint efforts in the sector.