Singapore firms encourage startup community to signify mental wellbeing
Singapore firms encourage startup community to signify mental wellbeing 15 July 2021 | Analysis ACE Partners with Safe Space to launch first of its kind Whitepaper Report on the mental health of startup founders in Singapore
Photo Credit: ACE, Singapore
Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE), the national advocate for Singapore’s startup ecosystem, partnered with digital mental healthcare provider Safe Space™ to virtually launch their whitepaper report on the Mental Health of Startup Founders in Singapore.
Analyzing findings from over 70 pieces of expert insights and answers from clinical therapists, and over 150 founders from entrepreneur networks - The whitepaper report focuses on the perception of mental health among startup founders and improvements that can be made in the industry going forward.
The Straits Times
Hazlin Hassan Malaysia Correspondent In Kuala Lumpur
PublishedJul 13, 2021, 5:00 am SGT
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July 09, 2021
A man applies finishing touches to graffiti representing a vaccine, amidst the spread of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in Kolkata, India, on Jan 2, 2021.
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“I was pregnant when he passed away in late April. My children still think their father is in the hospital,” the 31-year-old said.
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This increase was observed in all age groups, with a 7 per cent increase in number of suicides for youths aged 10 to 29 years old and middle-aged adults aged 30 to 59 years old.
The number of elderly, age 60 and above, who took their own lives was the highest since 1991.
The 154 deaths was a 26 per cent increase from 2019.
While there were a higher number of suicides, there was a small drop in the number of calls made by the elderly to the SOS 24-hour Hotline from 4,816 in 2019 to 4,455 in 2020.
Among those who revealed their age, calls made by the elderly in 2020 dropped from 20 per cent to 17 per cent.
July 04, 2021
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The surreal scenes, reminiscent of similar protests that swept the South American nations of Guatemala and El Salvador last year, emerged from a grass-roots social media campaign centred on the #benderaputih (white flag) hashtag that began trending on Monday.
Community organisers told This Week in Asia the campaign was the clearest sign yet of the economic despair that hundreds of thousands of Malaysia s lower-income families have experienced amid the haphazard approach of Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin s government to the public health crisis.