Month: July 2018

Ministry of Education report indicates health concerns for school children

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ECNS 31st July 2018 Ministry of Education report indicates health concerns for school children China’s Ministry of Education (MOE) has released a report on the quality of the country’s compulsory education, indicating a relatively high prevalence of myopia, obesity, and sleep deprivation among primary and junior high school students. Despite the students’ good performance in… Continue Reading Ministry of Education report indicates health concerns for school children

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Eye drops to stop blindness?

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Daily Mail 19th July 2018 Eye drops to stop blindness? Drops to stop blindness? Millions of patients battling the most common cause of sight loss may soon be spared the pain of eye injections Millions of patients battling the most common cause of blindness could soon be spared the pain of eye injections. For scientists… Continue Reading Eye drops to stop blindness?

2.1 million families benefit from barrier-free homes

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China Daily 26th July 2018 2.1 million families benefit from barrier-free homes More than 2.1 million people in China with disabilities have benefited from a nationwide program that aims to eradicate barriers in people’s homes in the most recent five-year period, an official of the China Disabled Persons’ Federation said on Wednesday. The program –… Continue Reading 2.1 million families benefit from barrier-free homes

6 Amazing examples of game-changing technology for the blind community

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KPLC7 27th July 2018 6 Amazing examples of game-changing technology for the blind community By Luke Dormehl In the United States there are roughly 8.4 million people with some form of visual impairment. In the entire world, that figure increases to 253 million, a population size greater than that of Brazil. Can technology help them?… Continue Reading 6 Amazing examples of game-changing technology for the blind community

Hearing the world via the cloud

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Microsoft Asia News Center 28th February 2017 Hearing the world via the cloud Li Yiran is a twelve-year-old Chinese boy who enjoys reading. Some of his favorite genres are fables and science fiction, but his all-time favorite book is the 100 Thousand Whys book, as it tells him more about the world around him—the world he… Continue Reading Hearing the world via the cloud

How a Taipei school for the visually impaired is helping make Microsoft Windows even more accessible

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Microsoft Asia News Center 19Th January 2018 How a Taipei school for the visually impaired is helping make Microsoft Windows even more accessible By Microsoft Asia News Center Shen Yan-lin can mix music by computer. His fingers whip across the panel of a smartphone from app to app, changing settings at the same high speed.… Continue Reading How a Taipei school for the visually impaired is helping make Microsoft Windows even more accessible

AI for Good’: Empowering China’s nonprofits with world-leading technologies

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Microsoft Asia Centre News 27th April 2018 AI for Good’: Empowering China’s nonprofits with world-leading technologies “In front of you is Barack Obama, looking straight towards you.” At the prompt, the volunteer takes off the Seeing AI glasses she was trying on. In front of her was simply a large photograph of Barack Obama that… Continue Reading AI for Good’: Empowering China’s nonprofits with world-leading technologies

China’s UN envoy urges global efforts for disability care

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People’s Daily 15th June 2018 China’s UN envoy urges global efforts for disability care By Yin Miao (People’s Daily)    09:21, June 15, 2018 New York – At a side event during the United Nations’10th session for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), China’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ma Zhaoxu said during his… Continue Reading China’s UN envoy urges global efforts for disability care

How a turmeric compound could treat glaucoma

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Medical News Today 25th July 2018 How a turmeric compound could treat glaucoma By Maria Cohut  In glaucoma, the optic nerve — or the nerve that links the eye and the brain — becomes damaged due to fluid buildup in the eye, which puts too much pressure on the nerve. One way of managing this… Continue Reading How a turmeric compound could treat glaucoma

75,000 disabled escape poverty in Gansu since 2014

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Xinhua 20th July 2018 75,000 disabled escape poverty in Gansu since 2014 A total of 75,000 disabled people have been lifted out of poverty in northwest China’s Gansu Province since 2014, local authorities said Friday. The provincial disabled person’s federation said that 183,000 people in the province had been registered in a database of the… Continue Reading 75,000 disabled escape poverty in Gansu since 2014