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BAYAMO Brandin Cooks Jersey , Cuba, June 13 (Xinhua) -- Luis Chacon and his partners have turned a once languishing state-owned restaurant in the historical center of Bayamo, a city in eastern Cuba, into a thriving business.


Chacon, 36, owes their success to the Cuban economic reforms that have encouraged the development of socialist-style private enterprises.


"We have made progress by leaps and bounds, as they say, in learning as we go about things we were not experts on Ndamukong Suh Jersey , and we are still learning," said Chacon, who has been trying to revive the old restaurant with a seating capacity of 120 over the recent three years.


"We earn what we work for," said Chacon, noting that sales of the restaurant have increased 94 percent since they took over the flagging business. Moreover, the restaurant is now rated among the top 10 restaurants in town, according to travel planning website TripAdvisor.


Chacon and his partners' restaurant is one of just seven non-agricultural cooperatives established in this region, where some 24 Dante Fowler Jr Jersey ,000 Cubans have launched their own business ventures.


For decades, the Cuban state was the country's sole employer. In 2011, the government launched a reform package to slim down the bloated public sector by encouraging such cooperatives.


In Granma province, where Bayamo is located, Cuba's self-employed, as this growing segment is called, contributed nearly 40 million pesos (39.8 million U.S. dollars) to the provincial government in the first four months of the year.


Daniel Silveira, vice president of the local government Austin Blythe Jersey , told Xinhua the cooperatives are a good source of jobs and have benefited as many as 100,000 local residents -- if taking into account not just those employed, but also their families.


"The self-employed worker is defined in the modernization of the country's economic model as a new management form that is going to coexist with the socialist state-owned companies or mixed (public-private) companies," said Silveira.


Heriberto Duran retired after working 30 years in a state-run company. Now he opened his own family business, selling traditional candies made of manioc, also known as cassava or yuca.


The whole family, including his wife, children Rob Havenstein Jersey , grandchildren and even great grandchildren, help make the candies.


The business, the only one of its kind in the province, according to Duran, has helped improve the family's living standards.


"You live a more relaxed life up to a point, because it (making the candies) entails a process that goes from gathering the yuca to peeling it, shredding it, pressing it Tyler Higbee Jersey , drying it and toasting it," said Duran.


Though it hasn't made him rich, selling the candies has boosted the family income, he said. What satisfies him even more is that the business keeps alive a local culinary tradition that has almost died out.


A few meters away from the corner in Bayamo where Duran sells the sweets, retiree Yurenia Llamis sells home-ground coffee served in jicaras, little cups made from the dried gourds of calabash trees, which is an old custom across the Cuban countryside.


"I'm doing really well, and what's more Jared Goff Jersey , I like dealing with people," said Llamis.


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BUJUMBURA, May 22 (Xinhua) -- At least eight people were on Sunday night injured in a grenade explosion at Kamenge in the north of the Burundian capital Bujumbura, the Burundian police spokesman said Monday.


"An unidentified person blasted a grenade around 7:40 p.m. in front of the house of the chief of Kamenge zone, injuring eight people. After blasting the grenade, the attacker ran away," said Pierre Nkurikiye.


He said the victims include a woman Samson Ebukam Jersey , three children and four men.


Witnesses told Xinhua that most victims were seriously injured during the explosion.


Burundi plunged into a crisis in April 2015 when Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza decided to run his controversial third term.


More than 500 people in Burundi have been killed and over 400,000 people fled to neighboring countries, mostly Tanzania, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) and Uganda, since the outbreak of the crisis.


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HANGZHOU, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- China's southeast is bracing for Typhoon Dujuan as authorities order the cancellation of flights and evacuation of residents.


Dujuan John Johnson Jersey , the 21st typhoon of the year, is forecast to land on the coast of Fujian Province between Tuesday morning and noon after reaching Taiwan on Monday night, according to a statement issued by the National Meteorological Center on Monday afternoon.


The center renewed an orange alert for the typhoon on Monday morning.


China has a four-tier color-coded weather warning system, with red representing the most severe weather, followed by orange, yellow and blue


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