Dr. Stephanie Kumaria, director of the suicide prevention hotline The Samaritans, says a fifth of the 60 or so calls the group receives each day in Hong Kong are from people despondent about financial reversals.

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Jacqui Kennedy, senior assistant director of Birmingham City Council's regulatory services, told the BBC that an anonymous hotline had given victims the courage to call and make complaints.

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