Hong Kong suicides up 50% under Chinese rule

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Hong Kong - More than 1100 people killed themselves in Hong Kong in 2002, 50 percent more than in the days when the island was still a British colony.

It is now ruled by China.

The 2002 suicide rate was 16.4 out of every 100 000 people compared to 11.3 in 1996, the year before Hong Kong was returned to Chinese sovereignty by Britain.

Four out of every 10 people who kill themselves in the territory of 6.8-million people are aged 30 to 49, 66 percent are men and one in three is jobless, according to the South China Morning Post.

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