Asia

Zeenews.com reports that "a total of 301 bankrupt farmers allegedly committed suicide in Maharashtra's Vidarbha region even after the Prime Minister visited the area in June and announced a special aid package for them." - [Read more]

A man killed his wife and later committed suicide by coming under a train in Rajkot, India. - [Read more]

Up to 35 poverty-stricken farmers have committed suicide in India's Maharashtra state despite a government relief package, officials say. - [Read more]

Reports that "two Japanese children killed themselves over the weekend because they were being bullied at school, say police." - [Read more]

The Hindu reports "media is a risk factor as well as a protective factor when it comes to suicide. So the media's portrayal of suicide is important for its prevention, said Lakshmi Vijayakumar, founder trustee of Sneha." - [Read more]

Item in Wang Yanlin / Shanghai Daily News reports that psychologists should pay more attention to the Internet as a way to spread information about suicide prevention, and reach out to those who are thinking about taking their own lives. - [Read more]

A 34-year-old Clarist Sister is the latest of 15 cases of suicide over the past 12 years among religious sisters in Kerala, India, highlighting underlying problems in convent life for women. - [Read more]

Reports that "a relief package for 33 'suicide prone' farming districts in Andhra Pradesh, Maharastra, Kerala and Karnataka would be announced by the Prime Minister at the earliest to bail out the farmers in the affected regions." - [Read more]

Reports a "14-year old Chinese boy killed himself after running up a bill of 1,800 yuan ($230) calling phone sex numbers, the official Xinhua news agency said." Read for details. - [Read more]

Reports "an estimated 46,400 in Taiwan have considered, planned or attempted suicide in the past year, according to the results of a community survey released." - [Read more]

Reports "Legislator Hung Chi-chang of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) called for politicians across the spectrum Tuesday to stop bickering endlessly and instead focus on the problem of rising suicide rates." - [Read more]

Article reports that, in Taiwan, over the past 10 years, there has been an average of 14 suicide deaths every Monday, higher than any other day of the week, according to statistics compiled by the Cabinet-level Department of Health (DOH)." - [Read more]

Read this Sep. 11, 2006, news item that reports "Premier Su Tseng-chang and Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou attended an event yesterday sponsored by the Buddhist Dharma Drum Mountain (DDM) Foundation to mark World Suicide Prevention Day." - [Read more]

Taiwan's crude death rate from suicide hit an all-time high of 18.8 per 100,000 people last year, the National Suicide Prevention Center (NSPC) under the Department of Health (DOH) reported. - [Read more]

Notes a free information day on mental illness and suicide was held at Beijing's Ditan Park to mark the fourth World Suicide Day on Sept 10, 2006. - [Read more]

Reports "poverty and economic hardship are the chief causes of the increasing number of suicide cases in Pakistan as 222 people committed suicide in 2006 compared to 167 in 2005, according to official figures." - [Read more]

Reports "over 200 people tried to jump off China’s Nanjing Yangtze bridge last year, making it the preferred spot for Chinese to attempt suicide, and about 2,800,000 Chinese commit suicide every year, according to official estimates." - [Read more]

Reports on a study that "has found a very high degree of correlation between farmers' suicide and climate change." - [Read more]

Reports "Caritas India, a largest national non-governmental organization of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India, has devised an integrated program Save Farmers-Save India to curtail farmer suicides in the country." - [Read more]

Seoul "education authorities have decided to educate students in order to prevent copycat suicides after a number of recent celebrity suicides. This is the first time that schools have taken part in a national suicide prevention education initiative." - [Read more]

Reports that "one out of every 10 Koreans has considered suicide over economic difficulties, a survey suggests." Read for details. - [Read more]

Suicide scenes in movies can influence those facing serious depression to take similar action, according to experts. Read more of this article found in the Malaysian The Star Online. - [Read more]

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Reports that a panel discussion was held in Qatar to mark World Mental Health Day (October 10). Browse for details. - [Read more]

Reports that "psychiatrists have decided to once again stress a long-articulated demand — decriminalising attempt to suicide and evolving a more sensitive media." - [Read more]

Reports "India has constituted a high-level committee to probe the rising trend of fratricide and suicide in its armed forces." Read for details. - [Read more]

Telegraph.co.uk reports "hundreds of India's most revered Hindu holy men are threatening a mass suicide in protest at the pollution of the Ganges." - [Read more]

Reports "a 12-year-old Indore boy committed suicide allegedly because his teacher harassed him for not paying the school fees for two months, the police said." - [Read more]

Reports "ahead of the winter session of the state legislature beginning on December 4 in Nagpur, the BJP has taken up the cudgels on behalf of the farmers of Vidarbha." - [Read more]

An 8-year-old girl died Saturday after falling from a bridge over a highway in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, in an apparent murder-suicide attempt by her mother. - [Read more]