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The Chinese Quarter of Havana is more than a group of small and narrow streets situated in the same core of Centro Habana municipality. It is a small city with geographical boundaries in the area around the Aguila and Dragones streets.

The Cuban archipelago, which has a privileged location in the Caribbean Sea, is an ideal destination for those who want to spend their vacations in direct contact with nature and, at the same time, enjoy the country's cultural and historic wealth.

Ricardo Alarcón, president of the Cuban Parliament, attended the meeting in the International Institute of Journalism José Martí, where they pay homage to who represents the perseverance in the exercise of writing about the truth and who was the last reporter murdered in Cuba, victim of the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.

The director of U.S Project Censored, Peter Philips, is in Cuba attending a three-day conference to mark the 50th anniversary of the murder in Havana of Ecuadorian Journalist Carlos Bastidas and Freedom of the Press Day, an event called by UNESCO.

The Cuban Grand Master (GM) Jesús Nogueiras defeated his countryman Lázaro Bruzón, and is included among the leaders of the Elite group of the Capablanca Chess Tournament, underway in Havana.

The University Social Work Brigades (BUTS) of this eastern province of Las Tunas are getting ready to guarantee the organization of the productive tasks this summer.

In an effort to enhance collective actions aimed at increasing food production and thus guaranteeing food sovereignty, the Cuban parliament set up today an Agriculture and Food Commission.

The Caribbean head of State asserted that they tackle in the dialogue issues as natural resources and the world crisis. We analyzed new projects for the regional countries, specifically in relation to the ALBA (Bolivarian Alternative for the People of the Americas), he said.

Outstanding doctors from Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Salvador, Spain, Japan, China and Cuba, have confirmed their participation in the event.

Delegations from Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua, as well as guests from Panama and the Dominican Republic began a technical meeting on their environmental problems in Nicaragua.

An exhibition by renowned Cuban painter, engraver and ceramist Nelson Dominguez is displayed for the first time in Vietnam.

The Latinidad 2008 Prize was given to the important intellectual and movie maker Alfredo Guevara, founder of the Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (Cuban Institute for the Arts and Movie Industry) (ICAIC in Spanish), for his decisive contribution to national culture which has meant his promotion to development and diffusion of Latin American and Caribbean cinema.

Cuba will celebrate the International Day against Homophobia, next Saturday May 17, date when the World Health Organization eliminated the homosexuality from the list of mental illnesses.

The exhibition "Palabra y pincel" -Word and Brush-, opportune dialogue among Literature and Fine arts in the work of 12 of the most prolific painters of the country, will be inaugurated May 16 at National Museum of Fine Arts of Cuba.

The Maraguán Artistic Group from the University of Camaguey, travel to Chile for the first time in its XXI International tour. A symbol of the amateur artists movement from the FEU (Spanish for University Students Federation), the group left after offering a performance at the FITCUBA 2008 Tourism International Festival, in the Morro-Cabaña Park from Havana.