Living With Disability

The last three months have been very trying for visually disabled waiter Marcos Joel. “Since our restaurant is not operational, there is no salary but just an allowance of RM600 monthly which my employer says will be paid to us until November this year, ’’ said Marcos, who has a degree in broadcasting and journalism.

More than 300,000 disabled persons and single mothers will receive a one-off financial assistance worth RM300 to lighten their burden, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said.

NBA star Stephen Curry said on Thursday that he wants to locate the one-armed Chinese boy whose dazzling basketball skills have gone viral online.

Iyad Hallak, a 32-year-old Palestinian man with autism, passed Israeli police every day to reach his special needs school in Jerusalem’s Old City.

While social distancing has become the new norm for Malaysians during the Covid-19 pandemic, a community whose livelihood depends on the sense of touch is greatly affected by this change. The visually impaired are facing a great challenge as the abrupt loss of income and the movement control order (MCO), even under the conditional regulations, have made it hard for them to go about their daily lives.

Doctors said it was unlikely for James Low Hong Ping to live beyond the age of two when he was first diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). However, Low not only survived beyond that age, he defied all odds to become an exemplary constitutional law scholar and disability rights activist.

About 360 homeless people around the city who were rescued during the Movement Control Order (MCO) will undergo training and motivational courses before starting work after Aidilfitri.

The government has agreed to exempt the disabled placed under mandatory quarantine, from paying hotel accommodation charges. Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said this was decided at the daily ministerial meeting with the National Security Council today.

Melaka Umno Liaison Committee deputy chairman Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Mohamad and television personality Ras Adiba Radzi were sworn in as senators at Dewan Negara here today before the Senate President Tan Sri SA Vigneswaran. Both of them were appointed for the first time for a period of three years.