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- Daughter of Cuban leader Raul Castro to visit U.S.
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban President Raul Castro's daughter is scheduled to visit California next week to speak at a conference of experts on Latin America during a rare U.S. trip by a member of Cuba's ruling family. Sexologist Mariela Castro, 50, will discuss Cuba's policies on sexual issues on May 24 at a Latin American Studies Association (LASA) conference in San Francisco, an association spokesman said on Wednesday. Mariela Castro heads the communist island nation's National Center for Sex Education and is an outspoken advocate for gay rights. ...
- Cuba drags feet on foreign investment
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's reform plans to attract more overseas investment are off to a slow start as the government focuses more on regulating existing foreign joint ventures than encouraging new ones, businessmen and diplomats say. In fact, Cuba has closed more joint ventures than it has opened since the ruling Communist Party adopted wide-ranging economic reforms a year ago, and remains far off highs reached in the 1990s, according to official reports. ...
- Charles Barkley takes shot at San Antonio River on TNT
Charles Barkley may have regained the title of Most Despised NBA Personality in San Antonio from Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.
It was Barkley, you may recall, who a couple of years ago used his soap box on TNT’s “Inside the NBA” to characterize the women of San Antonio as, well, large.
That earned the former round mound of rebound a special place in the hearts of San Antonians.
Fortunately for Barkley, Cuban, who has taken plenty of jabs at the Alamo City over the years, became enemy...
- PrimBio, CropLord newest Science Center tenants
Two life sciences companies with ties to the Asian marketplace have set up shop at the University City Science Center in Philadelphia.
PrimBio Research Institute, a biotech company developing products for cancer research and diagnostics targeting hospitals in the United States and China, and CropLord LLC, a biotechnology and consulting firm dedicated to sustainable agriculture and specialty chemicals in the Asian market, have both taken space at the Science Center’s Port Business Incubator.
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