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UK/ID Festival returns with highlights on Indonesian diversity

Art & Culture 7 years ago

UK/ID Festival returns with highlights on Indonesian diversity

The British Council’s annual UK/ID Festival returns for its final edition of the three-year UK/ID program.

Asian Para Games: Para athletes recall sport as life changer

Sports 7 years ago

Asian Para Games: Para athletes recall sport as life changer

Now a captain of the Indonesian sitting volleyball team for the Asian Para Games, Nasrullah, 35, did not plan to be an athlete when he first entered the Prof. Soeharso Social Rehabilitation Center for People with Physical Disabilities (BBRSBD) in Surakarta, Central Java, back in 1997.

Asian Para Games: Visually impaired sprinters, guides run as one

Sports 7 years ago

Asian Para Games: Visually impaired sprinters, guides run as one

People unfamiliar with blind running may be surprised to see that the athletes are accompanied by a guide, who runs alongside them.

Asian Para Games: Unified Korea nails bronze in swimming

Sports 7 years ago

Asian Para Games: Unified Korea nails bronze in swimming

“This is one of the most important and historical moments for all of us, that sports unites both Koreans for the first time ever in the Para Games, and [as a team] they won the bronze medal,” Rashed told the media after Wednesday’s medal ceremony.

Asian Para Games: Indonesian favorite Leani getting closer to podium

Sports 7 years ago

Asian Para Games: Indonesian favorite Leani getting closer to podium

The top seed Leani opened her Thursday match with a win against compatriot Khalimatus Sadiyah Sukohandoko in the women’s singles’ semifinal.

Asian Para Games: Iran's 'dream team' inches away from clinching sitting volleyball gold

Sports 7 years ago

Asian Para Games: Iran's 'dream team' inches away from clinching sitting volleyball gold

Back in July, Iran won the men’s Sitting Volleyball World Championships in the Netherlands after beating arch-rival Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Asian Para Games: A fun sport to watch at GBK complex

Sports 7 years ago

Asian Para Games: A fun sport to watch at GBK complex

Sitting volleyball, played by athletes who have a disability that impacts the function of their lower limbs, is being competed at the 2018 Asian Para Games.

Opportunity is key to integrating the disabled

Opinion 7 years ago

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Opportunity is key to integrating the disabled

The 2018 Asian Para Games, which opened last Saturday, testifies to how far we have come in our treatment of people with disabilities.

Equal cash bonuses for medalists of Asian Games, Para Games

Sports 7 years ago

Equal cash bonuses for medalists of Asian Games, Para Games

"The struggles to win gold medals are equally tough for all athletes. It is an extraordinary competition. The government is strongly committed to treating them equally."

Asian Para Games: Volunteers' golden rule: Ask first before providing assistance

Sports 7 years ago

Asian Para Games: Volunteers' golden rule: Ask first before providing assistance

“We have been taught to ask first before offering any assistance. Unnecessary assistance might hurt their feelings."

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