According to statistics, about 2% of children suffer from depression. The rate is from 5% to 8% for adolescents. The rate is higher among children after puberty.

A 12-year-old boy in Hanoi fell to his death from an apartment building, sparking concerns over children’s mental wellbeing and parents’ negligence on the matter, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Ministry of National Defence is investigating the death of a young military serviceman who is suspected to have committed suicide in northern Thai Nguyen Province.

The 34-year-old was found dead in his Mumbai home, in what police believe to be a case of suicide.

A woman and her three small children have been found dead in a stream in the northern province of Hoa Binh in a suspected suicide case.

Last week, many people, especially parents, were shocked to hear the news that a 13-year-old girl in HCM City had tried to commit suicide by jumping from the 8th floor of an apartment building.

Vietnamese teenagers were at risk of social exclusion in later life because of the threat of video game addiction, a doctor has warned.

The Binh Duong Province police have arrested a suspect in the murder of three members of a family who were found dead at home in Thai Hoa Ward in Tan Uyen Town on Wednesday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Some people have a job, others have a calling. Nguyen Van Chuc has a calling.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A court in the southernmost province of Ca Mau has sentenced Huu Be, 57, from Thoi Binh District to seven years in prison and fined VND13 million (US$600) on Monday for child sex abuse.

 Japanese police have arrested a man after finding parts of nine bodies in his apartment in Zama, near Tokyo.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A young man has committed suicide when he detonated a home-made grenade in Buon Ma Thuot City, in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A couple and their two sons were found dead in the northern Thanh Hoa City in Sunday evening, Nov 1.

 Two people are dead after one of them set himself on fire on board a Japanese Shinkansen bullet train, public broadcaster NHK reports.

 More than 50 people were killed and at least 100 injured in a suicide bombing close to Pakistan's only border crossing with India.

 A grandfather shot dead his daughter and her six children before taking his own life at a home in Bell, Florida, police have said.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Facing sadness and deadlock in life, nearly 350 people sought to commit suicide in the first half of the year in the southern province of An Giang.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The police of Thu Duc District, HCM City, are conducting investigations into the cause of death of an Italian man, who lived in an apartment at the Sunview building in Tam Phu Ward.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Receiving wrong HIV test results from a public hospital, Ms. Le Thi Oanh in Thanh Hoa City was unbearable with the shocking news and committed suicide after giving birth.