Asia

Reports "Rameshwar Kuchankar, a young cotton farmer who had consumed poison here Tuesday out of frustration over low price for his crop, died in a hospital Friday taking the suicide toll in Maharashtra's Vidarbha region to 1,152 since June last year." - [Read more]

Reports that "six students being bullied in Japan were so desperate to stop the torment that the only way they could find to end their suffering was to kill themselves." - [Read more]

A 28-year-old man in Madhya Pradesh hanged himself to death leaving behind a note blaming police harassment. - [Read more]

Pakistan news item notes a IASP reports shows that failure in love, unemployment, poverty, inflation and domestic problems are the main causes of suicide in Pakistan while on the other hand, suicide rate among youngsters is said to be the highest. - [Read more]

Reveals that in just one year, 2002, nearly 18,000 suicides of farmers were reported in India. - [Read more]

Reports "a student of Class V committed suicide by swallowing poisonous medicine due to scolding from his teacher and slap from his Uncle over the crime which he did not do." - [Read more]

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Reports that a young teenager hanged herself from the door frame of her class at the Pune Municipal Corporation’s Baburao Sanas Girls’ High School in Mangalwar Peth. - [Read more]

An unemployed miner in China’s southern province of Guangdong blew himself up at local police station after pleading with officers to help him obtain unpaid wages. - [Read more]

Reports "some 100 women have attempted suicide by committing self-immolation or taking poison during the last eight months in the insurgency-hit southern province of Kandahar, an Afghan human rights watchdog said." - [Read more]

Reports "the rate of suicides in South Korea soared to 24.7 per 100,000 people in 2005, according to the latest statistics from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development that rank the country at the top of the list." - [Read more]

Read this Reuters UK news item that reports "uicide has become the number one cause of death among young people aged between 15 and 34 in China, where 250,000 people kill themselves a year." - [Read more]

The Hindu Times offers this news item that reports "many in Chennai seem to have collapsed under stress or failure in exams and succumbed to the urge to take their own lives." - [Read more]

Reports "the Delhi state education board has made it mandatory for students attending 600 government schools to begin their day with a “jaadu ki jhappi”, an embrace, to ward off stress." - [Read more]

Reports that "two middle school students in Japan are believed to have committed suicide in separate incidents after being allegedly bullied in their schools." - [Read more]

Details "depression, poor quality of life and unemployment can be killers -- they are listed among the top ten reasons for suicide in China, according to a research report." - [Read more]

"A WHO study in 14 countries showed that in developing countries, between 76 to 85 percent of serious cases of mental illness did not receive any treatment within the prior year, and data shows a tremendous human resource gap in the developing countries." - [Read more]

Reports "in the wake of a rise in suicides and fratricidal killings in the armed forces, the Indian Air Force (IAF) has started a new drive to provide its staff psychological counseling so that they can adapt to severe working conditions." - [Read more]