Hong Kong secondary school students congratulate each other after collecting their exam results. School pressure isn’t the most cited reason for student suicides, according to one study. Photo: Dickson Lee
Hong Kong secondary school students congratulate each other after collecting their exam results. School pressure isn’t the most cited reason for student suicides, according to one study. Photo: Dickson Lee
Suicides in Hong Kong
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Don’t be too quick to blame school pressure for Hong Kong’s youth suicides

Paul Stapleton says while saddening, the recent spike in cases involving Hong Kong youth may in fact be a statistically random event, rather than part of any meaningful pattern

Paul Stapleton
Paul Stapleton

Updated: 8:48am, 28 Sep, 2016

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Hong Kong secondary school students congratulate each other after collecting their exam results. School pressure isn’t the most cited reason for student suicides, according to one study. Photo: Dickson Lee
Hong Kong secondary school students congratulate each other after collecting their exam results. School pressure isn’t the most cited reason for student suicides, according to one study. Photo: Dickson Lee
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