Challenges facing China's disabled as Paralympics loom ...full story at BBC News
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| 06 Sep 08 |
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Paralympics 2008 Man falls out of wheelchair!! »
YouTube video the birds nest has completely been carpeted throughout and alot of people have had trouble getting their wheelchairs over the carpets! but while china parade through the birds nest stadium one man falls out of his wheelchair completely!
they should of... |
| 28 Aug 08 |
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FACTBOX: Chinese efforts to assist the diabled » People's Daily The torch was lit on Thursday for the nine-day relay for the Beijing Paralympics. The relay begins on Friday; the Paralympics runs from Sept. 6-17. Here is some key information about China's disabled population. All data from the China Disabled... |
| 04 Sep 08 |
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China highlights disabled people's welfare as Paralympics draws near » People's Daily Chinese awareness of the welfare of its 83 million disabled population is rising as its capital prepares to host the Paralympics, which starts in two days. During its seven years of preparation for the Olympics and Paralympics, Beijing took... |
| 24 Apr 08 |
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China's top legislature adopts amended law on protection of disabled » People's Daily China's top legislature on Thursday adopted the amendment to the Law on Protection of the Disabled, which is expected to better protect the rights and interests of the disabled in the run-up to the Beijing 2008 Paralympics in September. ... |
| 07 Sep 08 |
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Today's Links: Paralympics, Disneyland and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization » Shanghaiist Paralympics - changing attitudes in China [Radio Netherlands] "It's money well spent, but China's own 83 million disabled people no doubt find it more important not to be discriminated against any more by the rest of society, or to be stared at as if they... |
| 13 Nov 08 |
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China's disabled people federation elects new chairperson » People's Daily Wheelchair-bound woman writer Zhang Haidi on Thursday was elected as new chairperson of the China Disabled Persons Federation (CDPF) at the organization's fifth national congress. She replaced Deng Pufang, who has in the past decade led the... |