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Samaritans Worldwide) visited the Samaritans Hong Kong after a Samaritans biennial conference held in Sri Lanka in the summer of 1994. With effect from 1994, its 20th anniversary, the organisation was renamed as The Samaritans, multi-lingual suicide prevention hotline.
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