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Feb262021 by adminNo Comments

Trading tax hike won’t harm competitiveness of Hong Kong’s stock market, says financial secretary

Finance

Signage for the Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd. (HKEx) in Hong KongJustin Chin | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesHong Kong's plan to increase the stamp duty on stock trading will not harm the competitiveness of the city's financial markets, Financial Secretary Paul Chan told CNBC on Friday.Chan said in his budget speech on Wednesday that the government will raise the stamp duty paid on listed stock trades from 0.1% to 0.13%. The announcement sparked a sell-off in shares of the operator of the city's stock exchange, and the broader Hong Kong market. "The Hong Kong market has been doing very well, very active, the volume has gone up quite a bit," Chan told CNBC's Emily Tan."So, perhaps this is the time for us to increase a little bit on the stamp duty which will not harm our comp...

Jan22021 by adminNo Comments

Bird charity warns of harm from new wind farm

Science

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Oct202020 by adminNo Comments

Peer-based anti-bullying initiatives may harm victims more, researcher says

Health

Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Encouraging classmates to defend bullied pupils may do more harm than good, according to a review of existing research published Tuesday by Child Development Perspectives. Unlike programs that include parental training, firm discipline or enhanced playground supervision, interventions that involve working with the peers of bullied students tend to lead to increases in the behavior, the author wrote. Advertisement So-called "bystander interventions," in which peers are trained to come to the defense of the bullying victims, may actually increase feelings of victimization and distress by "disempowering" them, reinforcing or provoking bullying or eroding broader support for them, the review suggests. "Many school bullying prevention programs encourage and train peer bystande...

Jan172020 by adminNo Comments

Social media data needed for ‘harm’ research, say doctors

Health

Leading UK psychiatrists say they will never understand the risks and benefits of social media use on children's mental health unless companies hand over their data to researchers.Tech companies must be made to share data and pay a tax to fund important research, they say in a report.There is growing evidence internet use can harm mental health but research is still lacking, it adds.But a civil rights group said children should not be treated "like lab rats".An independent regulator for online safety is planned by the government.The report, by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, calls on the regulator to require social-media companies to share data on how children and young people are using the likes of Instagram, Facebook and Tw...

Oct182019 by adminNo Comments

Banning out-of-hours email ‘could harm employee wellbeing’

Technology

Banning staff from accessing their work emails outside office hours could do more harm than good to employee wellbeing, a study suggests.University of Sussex researchers found while a ban could help some staff switch off, it could also stop people achieving work goals, causing stress.Companies are increasingly curbing email use to tackle burnout. France has even legislated on the issue.But human resources body CIPD said it agreed with the university's findings. According to the research, strict policies on email use could be harmful to employees with "high levels of anxiety and neuroticism". How do you tackle stress in the workplace? 'I lost my job because of my depression' That was because such employees needed to feel free to respond to a "growing accu...