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| Experts: Depressed may copy suicide scenes - http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/7/7/nation/14766015&sec=nation 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] |
| Catholic News - Convent life drives Kerala nun to suicide - http://www.cathnews.com/news/607/79.php 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] |
| BBC News - Indian farmer suicide toll rises - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5179540.stm Up to 35 poverty-stricken farmers have committed suicide in India's Maharashtra state despite a government relief package, officials say. - [Read more] |
| 301 farmers committed suicide after PM's visit to Vidarbha - http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=324802&sid=REG 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] |
| BBC News - Suicide of 'bullied' Japan pupils - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6142816.stm Reports that "two Japanese children killed themselves over the weekend because they were being bullied at school, say police." - [Read more] |
| Ahmedabad - 35-yr-old kills wife, commits suicide - http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=192902 A man killed his wife and later committed suicide by coming under a train in Rajkot, India. - [Read more] |
| Gov't waives loans of farmers who committed suicide in Kerala - http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=312790&sid=REG Browse to find this news item published by Zee News. - [Read more] |
| Be responsible while covering suicides, media told - http://www.hindu.com/2006/09/10/stories/2006091016960200.htm 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] |
| Suicides on the rise in the city, say activists - http://www.hindu.com/2006/09/08/stories/2006090819700300.htm 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] |
| UPI - Bullying victims in Japan commit suicide - http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20061114-125304-7493r 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] |
| dongA.com - Suicide Prevention Education in Schools - http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=040000&biid=2007021571858 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] |
| China Post, The - Suicide rate climbing as economy falters - http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/detail.asp?ID=86001&GRP=B 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] |
| Pune Newsline - Depressed, girl commits suicide in classroom - http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=192669 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] |
| Chinaview.can - Free counselling offered on Suicide Prevention Day - http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-09/11/content_5074583.htm 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] |
| Blogs could help docs in suicide prevention - http://english.eastday.com/eastday/englishedition/metro/userobject1ai2311788.html 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] |
| onlinenews.com.pk - World Suicide Prevention Day today - http://www.onlinenews.com.pk/details.php?id=102095 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] |
| Person contemplating suicide shows signs - http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IET20060911000917&Page=T&Title=Southern+News+-+Tamil+Nadu&Topic=0 Browse to read this news item from newindpress.com. - [Read more] |
| Suicide top cause of death among Chinese youth - http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-09-12T115635Z_01_PEK166453_RTRUKOC_0_UK-CHINA-SUICIDE.xml&archived=False 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] |
| Gulf Times - Action on mental health to cut suicide rate urged - http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=112926&version=1&template_id=36&parent_id=16 Reports that a panel discussion was held in Qatar to mark World Mental Health Day (October 10). Browse for details. - [Read more] |
| China Daily - Phone sex bill drives 14-year old boy to suicide - http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-12/02/content_748975.htm 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] |
| India to probe fratricide, suicide in armed forces - http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C12%5C07%5Cstory_7-12-2006_pg4_17 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] |
| India's Hindu holy men threaten a mass suicide over polluted Ganges - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/30/wganges30.xml 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] |
| IndianMuslim.info - Student commits suicide after alleged harassment by teacher - http://www.indianmuslims.info/news/2007/february/10/india_news/student_commits_suicide_after_alleged_harassment_by_teacher.html 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] |
| Radio Free Asia - Miner Commits Suicide - http://www.rfa.org/english/news/2006/07/14/china_miner/ 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] |
| MRC News - Harassed by police, Madhya Pradesh man commits suicide - http://news.monstersandcritics.com/india/article_1180652.php/Harassed_by_police_Madhya_Pradesh_man_commits_suicide A 28-year-old man in Madhya Pradesh hanged himself to death leaving behind a note blaming police harassment. - [Read more] |
| China Post - Su, Ma mark Suicide Prevention Day - http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/detail.asp?ID=90110&GRP=B 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] |
| Chennai Online - Suicide prone districts to get aid - http://www.chennaionline.com/colnews/newsitem.asp?NEWSID=%7B5B3F9BD4-7B66-4BA1-9F38-2FBFD50C0833%7D&CATEGORYNAME=Tamil+Nadu 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] |
| IndiaTimes - BJP to fire up winter session with farmers’ suicide issue - http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/644824.cms 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] |
| english.chosun.com - One in 10 Koreans Mull Suicide for Economic Reasons - http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200612/200612050005.html Reports that "one out of every 10 Koreans has considered suicide over economic difficulties, a survey suggests." Read for details. - [Read more] |
| DNA India - Farmers’ suicide linked to climate - http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1069198 Reports on a study that "has found a very high degree of correlation between farmers' suicide and climate change." - [Read more] |