INVITATION TO THE RADIO AND TV CONVENTION CUBA 2017
Dear colleagues,
The Cuban Institute of Radio andTelevision invites executives, producers and experts in general, to participate in the Radio & Television Convention Cuba 2017, an International Expo-Fairwhich will be held from September 10 until the 15th that the Palace of Conventions in Havana, Cuba, in order to promote the exchange of ideas, cooperation and commercialization of technology, products and services.
Cuba and Austria Will Sign Accord for Economic Collaboration
Havana, Nov 16 (Prensa Latina) The Austrian vice-minister of Science, Research and Economy, Bernadette Marianne Gierlinger, is beginning a visit to Cuba today, with the purpose of signing a memorandum of understanding on international economic collaboration.
According to a press release published on the website of the Cuban Foreign Ministry, the Austrian official was invited by the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Trade and Investment.
Laying the foundations for Cuba’s pharma industry
Today, Cuba has a relatively strong domestic pharmaceutical and biotechnological industry, which responds to the needs of the population and to export opportunities, but things were very different in the late 1970s.
At that time, Cuba had to rely on expensive imports of vaccines and drugs, a dependence all the more difficult in the context of the United States embargo which restricted the sale of medicines from the US to Cuba.