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■Taiwan's army chief orders a counselling overhaul as self-harm cases among soldiers mount ■Japan raises pay for every rank of its Self-Defense Forces as recruiting shortfalls bite ■US research monitor counts 69 Chinese coast guard incursions around Taiwan this year, 43 at Kinmen ■Malaysia says a BrahMos buy for its Su-30MKM fighters is still only being explored ■Indian Army lines up Pokhran trials for 540 jet-powered kamikaze drones as 11 Indian firms compete ■South Korea seeks to widen its navy's anti-piracy zone toward Hormuz as Iran warns Seoul off ■Taiwan's army chief orders a counselling overhaul as self-harm cases among soldiers mount ■Japan raises pay for every rank of its Self-Defense Forces as recruiting shortfalls bite ■US research monitor counts 69 Chinese coast guard incursions around Taiwan this year, 43 at Kinmen ■Malaysia says a BrahMos buy for its Su-30MKM fighters is still only being explored ■Indian Army lines up Pokhran trials for 540 jet-powered kamikaze drones as 11 Indian firms compete ■South Korea seeks to widen its navy's anti-piracy zone toward Hormuz as Iran warns Seoul off

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Uniformed Taiwanese army officers and civilian officials seated at desks with microphones in a briefing hall decorated with bunting

Taiwan's army chief orders a counselling overhaul as self-harm cases among soldiers mount

Army commander Lu Kun-hsiu told officers on 13 November that every self-harm case is a lost comrade, not a statistic, as the army weighs adding resident counsellors.

TaiwanDefence · 27m ago · 3 min read