A new vision research center opening in India today becomes the latest in a handful of facilities dedicated to exploring the potential of adult eye stem cells to repair vision damage. The Champalimaud Center for Translation Eye Research (C-TRACER), part of the LV Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad, India, will continue research begun by LV Prasad scientists, who use eye stem cells from living adults to grow new cells that are then implanted into damaged

Score Foundation’s radio programme Eyeway - Yeh Hai Roshni Ka Karwan has been adjudged the best radio programme in the category “Best Social Responsibility Initiative” at the inaugural Radio Duniya Award 2008 held on February 12, 2008, at Intercontinental - The Grand, New Delhi.

A Welsh/English Braille dictionary to help users translate, learnWelsh and support the use of Welsh among Braille users, has beenlaunched.

The 22 volume work is believed to be the first of its kind.

The book, which has been produced by the Royal National Institute ofBlind People (RNIB) Cymru, was put together by volunteers andspecialist staff.

A teacher for the visually impaired said the dictionary would have a "huge impact" on learning for pupils.

The Welsh Language Board provided 70% of the funds needed to produce the dictionary, launched on Tuesday.

A group of blind Egyptian female musicians has wowed audiences in Canberra, proving it is possible to achieve dreams despite having a disability.

The Al Nour Wal Amal Chamber Orchestra performed in Canberra last night as part of the National Multicultural Festival.

It is the only orchestra in the world made up entirely of blind women and is their first visit to Australia.

Conductors have developed special techniques to enable the girls to perform as an orchestra without the need to read the notes during a performance and without the conductor's baton.

The centuries of Muhammad Akram and Shariq Yaseen helped Lahore to win the final One-day match by 6 wickets.

In the morning at LCCA Cricket Ground, in the last one-day cricket match,
Nepal won the toss against Lahore Cricket Association of the Blind and
elected to bat first.

Twentythree visually impaired girls studying in Coimbatore and Maduraireceived scholarships to continue their studies at a function organisedby UDIS Forum, a network that assists people with disabilities, at theBishop Appasamy College of Education.

Weeks after losing their long-time patron Sir Edmund Hillary, the Fred Hollows Foundation has launched its annual fundraising appeal with an All Black great stepping up to front it.

This year, Michael Jones fronts the campaign to raise money to fight blindness in the Pacific.

Jones presented the inaugural Sir Edmund Hillary Pacific Eye Scholarship in a ceremony in Auckland today as part of the official launch.

TwoQatari scientists have achieved a milestone by inventing a uniquelanguage tool for teaching blind people in Qatar and other parts of theworld.  

Qatar'sAl Noor Institute for the Blind (NIB) unveiled 'the Braille Teacher', asimple learning tool for families to use for teaching blind person howto read and write Braille, at a ceremony held at Sharq Spa and Villagethis week.  

A special dinner held to celebrate the life and achievements of England and Yorkshire cricketer Fred Trueman has raised £3,000 for disabled cricket to help fund the England Blind team's bid to win the upcoming Ashes series for cricketers with visual impairment.

ECB National Disability Cricket Manager Ian Martin received the £3,000 cheque from Geoff Hastings, chief organiser of the dinner held in the Nursery Pavilion at Lord's in November where raffle prizes included a round of golf with Sir Richard Hadlee.