Disability

6 Apr 2013

No dreamer is ever too small and no dream is ever too big to achieve - photographer Kevin Cheng Kai-man is living testimony to this popular quote. Despite being physically stunted and confined to...

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Training school aims to get more guide dogs on Hong Kong streets

30 Jan 2013

In five years, thirty visually impaired people could be navigating their way around the city with the help of guide dogs trained at a school to be set up here, a local association says.

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Disability issues put on the agenda

25 Jan 2013

Don't faint. I am going to say something positive about Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying's policy address last week.

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Disability no hurdle to Special Marathon 2013 participants

21 Jan 2013

Thousands of people took part in a special race yesterday aimed at breaking down the barriers for people with mental disabilities.

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Tributes as funeral is held of quadriplegic Tang Siu-pun

30 Dec 2012

A funeral service was held last night for Tang Siu-pun, the quadriplegic who touched Hongkongers' hearts with his plea nearly a decade ago to be allowed to end his life.

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On disability services, a government push could go far

14 Dec 2012

Did you notice all the events taking place in Hong Kong last week to mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities? No? Me neither.

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Opinion

Michael Cox

The last straw for Terry Wong?

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Alex Lo

We need a sober view of sexual violence

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Government urged to subsidise hearing-impaired students

The government should subsidise pupils with severe hearing impairments to ensure they receive a proper education, a concern group says.

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Stargazers' camp puts blindness in a new light

A few weeks ago, I attended the Stargaze Camp for All and the Blind, an annual event organised by the Social Welfare Department in partnership with non-profit bodies and volunteers from the...

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HK Paralympians call for more resources to foster future stars

Amid the triumphant return yesterday of the Hong Kong Paralympics team from the London Games, a sporting official called for more resources to nurture the city's talented disabled athletes.

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COURTS

Six weeks of hospital treatment for retiree who bashed spouse with dumb-bell

A judge yesterday ordered six weeks' psychiatric treatment in hospital for an elderly schizophrenia sufferer who struck his wife on the head with a 2.2kg dumb-bell.

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ASK THE DOCTORS DR ADRIAN WANG

Ask the doctors

Q: My uncle has schizophrenia, and I am worried I may have it. Is schizophrenia a hereditary condition?

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Eye-popping idea wins top prize

King's College claimed the Hong Kong Outstanding IT School Award this year. They beat eight other finalists with an innovative app that aims to help the blind 'read' images and videos.

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