Equal rights


  • Opinion
  • Thursday, 23 Aug 2007

WITH our 50th National Day celebrations just around the corner, I took the opportunity recently to speak to two advocates for disability issues. I quizzed them about their Merdeka wishes, especially in relation to the disabled community.

Chong Tuck Meng, who hails from Bentong in Pahang, became permanently paralysed from his neck down after falling off his friend’s motorcycle as they were travelling along the Karak Highway.

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