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According to the figures of World Health Organization, the suicide rate of Hong Kong has been increasing in the recent years. [2] Between 1981 and 2001, the Hong Kong annual suicide rate rose from 9.6 to 15 per 100,000 people. [3] It even reached a high record in 2002 when 16.4 of every 100,000 people chose to commit suicide.
The Samaritans Hong Kong (Chinese: 撒瑪利亞會) is a free 24-hour multilingual suicide prevention hotline in Hong Kong. It is a non-religious charity that provides confidential emotional support to all people, irrespective of race, creed, age or status, who are in emotional distress or suicidal. [ 1 ]
The Hong Kong Samaritan Suicide Prevention Society was established in July 1960. The founder 杜學魁, formerly known as The Suicide Prevention Society, launched with a telephone counselling service at Shanlin Road. In October 1963, it became one of the member of the society and changed the name to The Hong Kong Samaritans. [14]
Suicide rates among young people in the U.S. increased 67% from 2007 to 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2022, suicide rates for young people slightly decreased.
Jumping is the most common method of suicide in Hong Kong, accounting for 52.1% of all reported suicide cases in 2006 and similar rates for the years before that. [6] The Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of the University of Hong Kong believes that it may be due to the abundance of easily accessible high-rise buildings in Hong Kong. [7]
Abdulmalik Husain, 68, formerly known as Louis Walker, was arrested Wednesday and charged with two counts of murder in connection with the deaths of Deroshia Matthews, 26, and her son, Kamal, 7 ...
Eric Sim spent more than 20 years in banking, working in Singapore, London, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. The engineering major says he knew very little about banking when he graduated.
On 30 March 2016, the Educational Bureau set up the Prevention of Student Suicide Committee in response to the spate of students' suicides in the 2015–16 school year. The committee was tasked with studying student suicides in Hong Kong and thereby offering any preemptive solutions to the problem of youth suicide. [162]