Health Minister: Suicide rate on the rise in Malaysia

The Jakarta Post The rate of suicides is on the rise in Malaysia, with more than 1,000 people having killed themselves over a three-year period.

Health Minister Liow Tiong Lai said the current ratio of suicides for the years 2007 to 2010 was 1.3 to every 100,000 people, but believed it could be higher.

"These are just figures we collected from post-mortems. We think the suicide rates are under-reported," he said at a press conference here Monday.