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100th anniversary is a remarkable milestone for RI that grew from its small-town roots in the American Midwest in 1922 to an internationally prominent organization in the past century. Generations of successors of RI members have been making...
A total of 1,450 blind and visually impaired people took part in a mass walking event in Myanmar's Yangon to mark the 28th International White Cane Day, according to the Yangon City Development Committee (YCDC) on Wednesday. With 531 helpers, the blind people from 31...
Roberto Punzo, an Italian solder who attended the archery competition sitting on a wheelchair in 7th Military World Games, received the best of applauses and respect from the local spectators all through his contest. Punzo, who had taken part in two Para Badminton...
Youth from China and the United States displayed their innovative projects at the 2019 China-U.S. Young Maker Competition and called for further exchanges and cooperation in innovation. Organized by the Ministry of Education, the competition's final award ceremony was...
At the age of 12, Wang Taifan, a blind boy, first heard a symphony on the campus of Nan'an District in Chongqing. Then he acquired a trumpet, which granted him a dream for the first time. Since 2014, the trumpet accompanied Wang from the school's small rehearsal hall...
Li Huitong is a painter, he draws on the inside surface of snuff bottles usually about half the size of his palm. What Li makes is called inside painting, or inner painting, which was born after snuffing tobacco was introduced into China during the Ming and Qing...
A stem cell transplant reversed a debilitating neurological disease that causes half of the patients to go blind and lose the ability to walk five years after diagnosis, according to a news release posted on the website of Northwestern University on Monday. The...
More than 15 million persons with disabilities in China received help from assistive devices, according to the China Assistive Devices and Technology Center for Persons with Disabilities Friday. Over 3,000 assistive devices service organizations affiliated to disabled...
Nearly 90,000 wheelchairs and car safety seats have been donated to disabled children in China during the past 10 years through a charity project, the China Foundation for Disabled Persons said Saturday. Over 95 percent of the donated items are wheelchairs and the...
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