I REFER to the letter “Lower salary for worker with disability” (The Star, March 13). The writer is indeed right in requesting that he/she should be paid the same salary as the employee who does the same kind of work but is not suffering from a disability. Once an employer has made the decision to employ a candidate for a vacancy that exists in the company, the new employee is entitled to the full salary allotted for the position.

The festive season continues to chug along and everyone gets to share the joy, including the Society of the Disabled Persons, Penang (SDPP). The group held their own Chinese New Year dinner for about 200 people.

Special children enjoyed a fun-filled day of activities and interaction at the annual Service Civil International (SCI) Penang Chapter’s Family Day.

Malaysians bade farewell to the late Stephen Hawking, considered to be one of the greatest theoretical physicists ever, paying tribute to his tenacity in overcoming adversity and for sparking their imagination.

Stephen Hawking, who has died aged 76, was Britain’s most famous modern day scientist, a genius who dedicated his life to unlocking the secrets of the Universe.

Police have arrested two 18-year-olds for allegedly bullying a mentally disabled man at a community centre here. The 20-year-old victim was at the playground in Taman Sri Kluang when the teenagers approached him and one of them used a tree branch to intimidate the victim.

Renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking, whose mental genius and physical disability made him a household name and inspiration across the globe, has died at age 76, a family spokesman said Wednesday.

I REFER to the report “Move to introduce Bill to address gender inequality” (The Star, Feb 27). The Persons with Disabilities Act 2008 (Act 685) was supposed to protect people with disabilities in employment, as stated in Section 29(1): Persons with disabilities shall have the right to access to employment on equal basis with persons without disabilities; and (2) The employer shall protect the rights of persons with disabilities, on equal basis with persons without disabilities, to just and favourable conditions of work, including equal opportunities and equal remuneration for work of equal value…”

An explosion tore through Nilofar Bayat’s leg when she was just two years old, but as she spins her wheelchair across a basketball court in Bangkok, the Afghan athlete is determined to turn her story from tragedy to trium­ph.

A disabled student, Ervina Tang Sze Cheen, did her school proud when she received recognition as the 2017 STPM spastic candidate with the best results from the Education Ministry.