February 24, 2021
South China Morning Post
A pedestrian escaped serious injuries in Hong Kong on Tuesday (Feb 23) when an elderly woman who had leapt to her death from a public housing block landed on her.
The two women, aged 46 and 72, were residents of Luen Yan House of Kwai Luen Estate in Kwai Chung, which was among six buildings issued with compulsory testing notices on Monday after confirmed cases of Covid-19 were found in the blocks.
The 49-year-old woman, surnamed Cao, had just completed her coronavirus test at a mobile unit at the estate soon after 10.15am, and had reached the outside Luen Yan House when the elderly woman, surnamed Chan, jumped out of the window from an 18th-floor flat and hit her.
February 24, 2021
A 47-year-old man in Phrae province, Thailand was found dead on his bed.
The Nation/Asia News Network
A 47-year-old man in Phrae province was found dead on his bed on Tuesday (Feb 23) evening, and it is believed he killed himself because he could no longer deal with his chronic asthma.
Sung Men district police arrived at 6pm to find the dead man, identified as Thongsian Kukong, lying on his bed under a mosquito net.
The man had shot himself by triggering the gun with his toe. There was no sign of a struggle.
Officials believe Thongsian had been dead for at least four hours. A two-day-old chicken carcass was also found in the man’s kitchen.
Over the nearly 10 years since the Great East Japan Earthquake, the number of suicides thought to be connected with the disaster reached 240, according to data announced by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry and the National Police Agency on Friday (Feb 5) . Fukushima Prefecture accounted for almost half, reporting 118 disaster-related suicides since March 2011. Believing that.
Police called to the pavement in front of Government House on Monday found a distraught man threatening to slash his own throat with a utility knife. The man, named as Praset Adam, 62, told police he had been cheated out of a large sum of money by a friend. Standing by a Government House entrance surrounded by police, guards and.
February 01, 2021
Kim Gyu-bong (right), the former head coach of the triathlon team at semi-pro club Gyeongju City Hall, has been sentenced to seven years in prison.
YTN
A South Korean triathlon coach and an Asian Games silver medallist have been convicted of abusing an athlete, closing a chapter on a high-profile suicide case that exposed the country’s win-at-all-costs sports culture .
The Daegu District Court on Friday (Jan 29) sentenced Kim Gyu-bong, former head coach of the triathlon team at semi-pro club Gyeongju City Hall, to seven years in prison for verbally and physically abusing triathlete Choi Suk-hyeon as well as diverting funds meant for training.