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...called filicide-suicides are not a new phenomenon in East Asia, but Hong Kong's relatively high number - there have been at least 15 since the start of 2008 - has raised alarm. "Three in one month is a critical warning sign," says Paul Yip, director of the Centre for Suicide Research & Prevention in Hong Kong. In the U.S., murder-suicides predominantly involve spouses killing partners before taking their own lives. But in Hong Kong, Yip says, at least 50% of cases involve the death of a child. (See "Hong Kong Roundtable: Ten Years, Five Views...
...isolation unite these cases. Researchers agree that in instances of filicide-suicide, parents feel there is no friend or relative able or trustworthy enough to care for the children. "In Hong Kong, it's common not to know neighbors who have been beside you for 10 years," says researcher Yip. While social and mental-health workers have been asked to pay close attention to depressed parents of small children, professional help remains thin on the ground in Hong Kong and is no substitute for a strong personal-support network. "It is packed here," says Yip of a city whose population...
...succumbed to the same mania, piling up butterflies and beetles, bats, gnats and bandicoots, corals and sea lilies, cuscuses and birds of paradise (William John led and paid for the colony's first scientific expedition to New Guinea), and a skull long thought to belong to a (mythical) bun-yip; it was actually a deformed foal...
...recent years, my house's windows oversee smog rather than the nearby outlying islands of Hong Kong. In September, my 4-year-old son suffered from respiratory infection twice and was prevented from going to school. The poor air condition in Hong Kong has reached an alarming level. Fredrick Yip Chi Wing Hong Kong...
...while the alcohol-free event attracted about 25 students at its peak, during a screening of “Sex and the City,” it soon fizzled. Ten students remained for the House-subsidized midnight trip to the International House of Pancakes in Allston. Jeff H. Yip, ’06-’07, who attended the sleepover briefly to watch “Sex and the City,” said the party was well-intentioned but needed “a stripper, or catered food, or even sushi served on naked models?...