Month: April 2012

Beijing, 9 APR (EFE).-China has founded the “National Association of rare land” to monitor the production of these elements and improve the communication of the parties involved in the exploitation and sale of the same, today the newspaper “New Beijing”. According to the newspaper, the association – formed by 155 companies – also has the mission to investigate the rare earths sector, provide guidance on production, offer intermediation services, alert on trade disputes and defending the companies involved. Thirteen of the most important companies in the rare earths sector initiated the formation of the Association, include the China Aluminum corporations, China MinMetals and the Nonferrous Metal groups and Baotou Steel Rare-Earth Hi-Tech co., the largest producer of these raw materials of China. The Chinese expert in analysis of rare earths, Yu Zequan, told the newspaper that these elements “have not yet received the positioning suitable as strategic metals in the market” and estimated that the exploitation of rare earths is something that “is must handle with care”. Yu added that it should “improve production in the sector”, for the formation of this Association, whose formation has been debated for five years, and will influence important issues such as the appointment of these metals prices and the share of exports of these what consider to be optimal. Its foundation occurs after weeks of us – backed by the European Union...

Havana, 8 APR ( EFE)-Cuban President, the general Raúl Castro, welcomed at dawn on Sunday, his Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chavez, who returned to Havana to receive the third stage of the treatment of radiotherapy following cancer, local media reported today. Chavez and Castro had “a lively exchange” at the Havana International Airport “José Martí”, highlights on its cover the official journal “Juventud Rebelde”. Also points out that the representative of Venezuela “before leaving Venezuela he met with his Cabinet”, and cited statements by Chavez to the State channel Venezolana de Televisión, which said it was returning to Cuba “to continue the battle for the health and life”. This is the third trip of the Venezuelan President to Cuba, after the last surgery which underwent a 40 days ago in the island to remove a new tumor, recurrence of cancer for which he underwent in June of last year. Own Chávez pointed out last week that are five sessions of radiotherapy which must receive before operated it on 26 February for the third time. Before returning this weekend to Cuba, Chavez made a speech, in which he was in good spirits and said that you between Wednesday and next Thursday would be back in Venezuela to participate in the activities in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the coup that deviated it from the Government for 45 hours. Recalling that...

(www.neomundo.com.ar) when the aim is to lose weight, one of the keys may be in the mind. The motivation to follow a diet could make an important contribution to lose those extra pounds. To those conclusions came an investigation conducted by the University of Kentucky and the University of North Carolina (United States). Specialists ensure that nutritionists should implement programmes of motivation after the eighth week of diet, when the will start to test. Obesity and overweight are serious problems at the global level. In Argentina, the last national nutrition and health survey found that 50% of people are overweight and 30% obesity. The picture is also very serious in Mexico, which ranks second in the ranking of the countries most affected by obesity. Motivation for success to find out how to achieve greater success in diets to lose weight, the researchers studied two types of motivation: the autonomous, that is that each person brings, and the controlled, that responds to external stimuli. Each volunteer answered a questionnaire designed to analyze what kind of motivation so guided in the 16 weeks of diet. At the beginning of the regime all the volunteers felt an increase in their autonomous- and controlled motivation, but at the fourth week of diet the issue changed. Participants who managed to lose 5% of their weight continued feeling motivated, but which did not reach this...

la Paz, 8 APR (EFE).-Bolivian doctors broke the dialogue with the Government of Evo Morales and decided to resume this Tuesday its indefinite strike, after insisting the authorities in six to eight hours to increase their workday, confirmed today the Vice-President of the Medical College of Bolivia, Bernardino Fuertes. Sector agreed Wednesday to a truce of 30 days in the strike begun on March 28 while discussing the decree which increases their workday, but the next day the Ministry of Health issued a statement affirming the validity of the rule, said strong EfE. Added that doctors and nurses took such action as “a mockery” of the Minister of health, Juan Carlos Calvimontes, so they decided to “continue the indefinite strike from this Tuesday” in a national meeting yesterday in the central city of Cochabamba. “There has been no seriousness of the Minister, there was no responsibility (…)” “The Minister has signed the agreement, however the next day broke it out this note that says that it follows the Decree,” lamented forts. The doctors reject the rule because they claim that threatens a social conquest of 1970 and consider that upload their working hours does not solve the problems of the State system of health, which are lack of infrastructure, equipment and jobs. Calvimontes said on Wednesday that the truce would talk with doctors since morning, but on how to...