The incoming Egyptian Parliament President Ali Abdel-Al received on Thursday in Cairo Cuban ambassador Laureano Rodriguez Castro during an activity ratifying friendship ties between both nations.

Cuban Food Industry Minister Maria del Carmen Concepcion is paying an official visit to Namibia till Sunday at the invitation of the local minister for Fisheries and Marine Resources Bernard Essau.

Cuba will once again hold specialized fairs in sectors like hotel services, food, security, packaging and graphic arts aimed at promoting and strengthening trade and investments with the business world.

The province of Santiago de Cuba complied with its prediction in the coffee production which constitutes an important sector to the country's economy.

María del Carmen Concepción, Minister of Food Industry of Cuba, and Victoria de Barros Neto, Angolan Minister of Fisheries, analyzed today in Luanda a action joint plan to strengthen fisheries cooperation.

With the prediction of an increasing number of tourists this year over the 3.5 million received in 2015, the island´s tourism sector improves its infrastructure and services.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Cuban authorities signed two agreements to support technology transfer in the areas of agriculture, food security, nourishment and sustainable management of natural resources in Cuban research and production centers.

US Wine producers who took part at a forum in Havana called First Symposium of California Wine said they are interested in increasing exchange with Cuba, despite the US economic blockade of the island.

Private small companies in the eastern Cuban city of Camaguey has garnered their own space at an ongoing commercial fair.

South Korea considers Cuba among its potential markets aimed at alleviating a setback of its exports, according to the Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy of the Asian nation.

The Brazilian Odebrecht Infrastructure Works Company will increase operations in Cuba after receiving authorization from local authorities to become a user of the Special Development Zone in the western Mariel Bay area, plus another two contracts in the sugar and civil aeronautical sectors.

The governments of Cuba and France signed on Monday several bilateral cooperation instruments in various sectors, in the context of the state visit to that European country of the President of the Cuban councils of State and Ministers, Raul Castro, Prensa Latina reported.

Havana will have 30 new WiFi zones in 2016, two more by municipality, which will facilitate access to the service, Odalys Rodriguez del Toro, director of Havana Division of Cuban Telecommunication Company (ETECSA SA), told ACN.

Copa Airlines will start direct flights to eastern Holguin province by mid 2016, from the Hub in Panama City.