Havana, April 10 (ACN-RHC) -- Raul Castro, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party and President of the councils of State and Ministers, presented the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Nguyen Phu Trong, with the José Martí Order.

Havana, April 10 (ACN-RHC) -- Cuba and the Chinese province of Shandong signed new agreements for economic cooperation in the areas of biotechnology and information technologies on Monday.

Havana, April 10 (ACN-RHC) -- Irene Campos, President of the Pan-American Union of Engineering Associations (UPADI), asserted on Monday in this capital that Cuba occupies a privileged place in her organization, which brings together two million professionals of the American continent.

Havana, April 10 (ACN-RHC) -- Abadula Gemeda Dago, Speaker of the House of Peoples’ Representatives of Ethiopia, spoke on Monday with relatives of the five Cuban heroes condemned in the United States for fighting terrorism.

Havana, April 10 (ACN-RHC) -- The book ‘Fidel: Time Warrior’ —on the life of the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro—, is scheduled to be launched this Tuesday in the Ecuadorean city of Guayaquil, and also on Wednesday at late painter Oswaldo Guayasamin’s Chapel of Man in Quito.

Havana, April 10 (RHC) -- The President of the National Assembly of the Popular Power of Cuba, Ricardo Alarcon, assured that the display of virtues of the people represents the best way of recalling Jose Antonio Aponte, who was at the head of the first conspiracy against the colonial Spanish government in the Caribbean nation. In an act held in Havana, on purpose of the bicentenary of the murder of the notable patriot, Alarcon recalled once again that Aponte was hung as a lesson for his proposals to achieve the independence of Cuba.

Havana, April 10, (ACN-RHC), --  Abadula Gemeda Dago, Speaker of the House of Peoples’ Representatives of Ethiopia, spoke on Monday with relatives of the five Cubans jailed in the United States for fighting terrorism.

Quito, April 10, (RHC-ACN), -- The book “Fidel: Guerrilla of Time”, on the life of the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro—, will be presented Tuesday in the Ecuadorean city of Guayaquil, and also on Wednesday at late painter Oswaldo Guayasamin’s Chapel of Man in Quito.

Havana, April 10, (RHC), -- Nguyen Phu Trong, Secretary General of the Communist Party of Vietnam was decorated with the José Martí Order, the highest distinction granted the Cuban Council of State.

Havana, April 9 (RHC)—Cuban President Raul Castro, first secretary of Cuba´s Communist Party Central Committee received the General Secretary of Vietnam´s Communist Party, Nguyen Phu Trong, who is paying an official and friendly visit to the island.