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March 16: The Paralympian, who won gold yesterday, said he became a stronger skier since losing his central vision at age 18 and being offered top-level coaching as a visually impaired athlete trying to make Canada’s Para-Nordic team.
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March 14: Singer-turned-actress Yoon Eun Hye is undoubtedly one of the most popular idols in Korea. Yes, her music career with girl group Baby V.O.X. kicked it off, and a little scandalous phase with Kim Jong Kook and her acting resume definitely proved t...
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JEDDAH, March 12: A number of disabled women have started selling makeup and other beauty products from their homes as part of an initiative from a major cosmetics company.
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The mistakes in Qatar’s implementation of the UN convention on the rights of people with special needs are minor and easy to correct, in the light of a strong government commitment towards people with disabilities, a senior UN official said yesterday.
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March 12: People with disabilities in Australia live on a lower socio-economic rung than most. People with a disability have poorer educational qualifications, have a higher rate of unemployment
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SINGAPORE, March 12: The request has been rejected repeatedly, but Members of Parliament are still trying to get the Government to change its hands-off approach in extending concessions to disabled and elderly people.
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March 11: Canada has ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on the eve of the Paralympic Games in Vancouver.
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March 11:DAKAR — A polio vaccination campaign in the violence-wracked central Nigerian city of Jos has been delayed until 13 March due to the violence and an on-going health worker strike, aid workers said.
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March 11: Televised coverage of the 2010 Paralympics will be a far cry from the thousands of hours international broadcasters devoted to the recently completed Olympic Games.
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March 11: The Family Court has granted a Queensland couple permission to have a hysterectomy performed on their 11-year-old disabled daughter.
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Vietnam, March 11: HCMC will open an independent living center for persons with disabilities following the success of such a center in Hanoi, said Vo Thi Hoang Yen, director of the city's Disability Resource and Development program.
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March 10: Disabled Nigerians are demanding to be included in the electoral system of Nigeria which gives them the right to contest for any political offices also requested to be given equal opportunity on employments, education and access to public places...
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March 09: Ah, video and search. Frank Sinatra said it best: Try, try, try to separate them – it’s an illusion. Here’s proof of that: Speech Technology. This week, Google sealed the deal on video search capabilities for its YouTube portal, saying it ...
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March 09: As people and institutions move away from print and toward electronic books, publishers are making more and more books available in electronic formats, using devices like Amazon's Kindle and Sony's Reader, digitization services like Google's, an...
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March 09: Zimbabwe joined the rest of the world on Monday in observing International Women’s Day one day after a short documentary about a disabled Zimbabwean woman received an Academy Award under the category of Best Documentary Short Subject.
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BEIJING, March 08: Sitting in a wheelchair, 33-year-old Li Nan beamed with pride as she read through a copy of this year's government work report.
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SAN BRUNO, Calif. - YouTube is opening its online video storage banks to millions of new viewers by supplying captioning and subtitles for the benefit of deaf and hearing-disabled users -- and people who simply speak a different language from the one use...
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March 06: Tens of millions of disabled people in developing countries who need wheelchairs don’t have them, and many of those with wheelchairs own models that aren’t versatile enough to use both indoors and on rugged terrain. Amos G. Winter’s new cr...
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March 06: A special concert dedicated to hearing impaired children, has been held at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing. It marks China's 10th National Ear Care Day.
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March 06: The news this week was upbeat: Australians are increasingly embracing the arts, with fewer people regarding them as elitist compared with a decade ago, and about 17 million people engaging with forms from music and theatre to literature.
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