By Lara Holmes

At least 16 physical tests for microbiological and chemical energy from agricultural waste, industrial and forestry are performed in the center of Biogas and Environmental Engineering in the central Cuban province.

Preliminary research indicates there are possibilities to replace the annual use of about four thousand tons of oil equivalent, or 30 percent of its energy for this territory.

By Lara Holmes

Venezuela says it plans to boost its oil storage and refining capacity in the Caribbean while increasing energy cooperation between the 19 countries in the region that receive its crude at preferential prices.

President Hugo Chavez has spread political influence with the oil deals, which include the Petrocaribe accord and a separate agreement with socialist ally Cuba.

By Lara Holmes

The Cuban Society of Pharmaceutical Sciences (SCCF) will hold its XI National Congress from May nine to eleven next year, in this capital, to delve into the latest developments in the discipline.

Tania Manzano, president of the organization, said the event will be held at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba and will be sponsored by the Italo-Latin American Society of Ethno-medicine, the Ministry of Public Health, drug marketers, Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Institute of Pharmacy and Food and Finlay.

By Lara Holmes

Chile .- Between 17 and 19 hours of this Sunday, thousands of students who will take the University Selection Test (PSU) will start the admission process to higher education, with the recognition of rooms where the test will be held between Monday and Tuesday, throughout the country.

According to official data, it is expected that slightly more than 250,000 college applicants will take the test scheduled for this December 12 and December 13.

By Lara Holmes

Cuba and China drew on Saturday in Havana their lines of work in biotechnology research in the next five years, 2012-2016, aimed at strengthening the exchange in that discipline.

On the final day of the sixth meeting of the joint group on biotechnology cooperation between the two nations, a final report defined the future projects.

By Lara Holmes

Sir Richard Branson's space tourism venture said it hopes to launch the service in two years time, but even that date is not fixed.

The firm's commercial director, Stephen Attenborough, told the BBC that its customers' safety is paramount.