SAR authorities have urged Hong Kong people who plan to visit Japan to be careful after officials there issued the country's first ever "megaquake advisory". Frank Yung reports:

The megaquake alert was issued on Thursday after a 7.1-magnitude quake hit the south of the country. RTHK's Tokyo correspondent Julian Ryall told Annemarie Evans that residents in Japan had been scrambling to gather supplies in supermarkets:

The DAB party has urged the government to set minimum standards for subdivided flats, including a minimum area of seven square metres, and stronger safety measures. Legislator Vincent Cheng told Georgina Lee that subdivided flats which are deemed to be unsafe should be shut down and their tenants given proper housing:

Chief Secretary Eric Chan says the government is considering loosening the eligibility criteria of one of its talent schemes. He was speaking in Hangzhou, where he has joined a youth delegation from the government's Strive and Rise Programme visiting the capital of Zhejiang province. Charlie Chun reports:

The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups has found that three-quarters of the firms it surveyed had never hired young people with special education needs (SEN). That is despite a similar percentage of employers saying they are open to the idea. The group interviewed 102 firms across different sectors in June and July. Miranda Wong, a supervisor with the federation, said they hoped to meet the needs of SEN youth and employers seeking help, amid a manpower shortage. She spoke to Janice Lo:

Hong Kong's top court has unanimously dismissed a final attempt by Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai and six former lawmakers to overturn their convictions in connection with an unauthorised assembly five years ago. Frank Yung reports:

Police say they seized over 200 kilograms of suspected cocaine worth HK$175 million. One man was arrested and will appear in Tuen Mun Magistracy on Tuesday. Anne Chan reports:

A tree expert says a tree-eating pest has been spreading from the New Territories to Hong Kong Island because of the change in weather. As Wendy Wong reports, higher temperatures are making it easier for the insect to breed:

Six people have been killed and 10 others injured when a lightning strike caused a park pavilion to collapse in the city of Changzhou in Jiangsu province. An investigation into the accident is underway. Azam Khan reports:

Greece's worst wildfire this year has spread into the Athens suburbs, forcing hundreds of people to flee as it torched trees, homes and cars and choked busy roads with smoke and ash. The government has called for help from fellow EU members to tackle the fire that was burning out of control for a second day, fanned by gale force winds that pushed it from the wooded hills north of the city. As RTHK's Europe correspondent, Gavin Grey, told Janice Wong, Greece had just experienced its hottest June and July on record:

The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, says the offensive operation in Russia's Kursk region is intended to bring peace closer. Speaking in his evening address, President Zelensky said any attack was justified to force Russia into ending its aggression. But RTHK's Moscow correspondent, Fred Weir, say he does not believe the offensive will change the ongoing war. He spoke to Annemarie Evans:

The global labour market outlook for young people has improved in the last four years, according to a report by a United Nations agency, and the upward trend is expected to continue for two more years. But the report also expressed concern about people aged between 15 and 24 who are not in employment, education or training. Jacqueline Guico reports:

In the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence, companies are rushing to collect data from the internet to train their AI models. Recently, leading AI chip maker Nvidia was accused of scraping videos from websites, such as YouTube and Netflix, without permission to improve its own programs. Data scraping is the automated process of extracting large amounts of information from websites. Why is this practice so controversial when it is commonplace for many companies? Who should decide how the data is used? Elvis Yu and Raj Shroff find out in Tech Tuesday:

A nostalgic Hong Kong mango sago chain is thriving in one of the most unexpected places - Paris. As Hailey Yip reports from the French capital, the successful business shows that sweet treats can transcend boundaries, cultures and languages: