Propping up the retail industry and providing more support for the social welfare sector were among numerous appeals to Chief Executive John Lee as he held a town hall meeting in Mong Kok on Sunday. He was soliciting views for his upcoming Policy Address, as Frank Yung reports:

A community activist group has called on the government to make sure subdivided flat tenants find housing elsewhere if they are evicted because their homes fail to meet minimum living standards. The call comes after a government task force submitted suggestions on minimum living standards to Chief Executive John Lee last week. The deputy director of the Society for Community Organisation, Sze Lai-shan, told Anne Chan that the group welcomed any measures to improve people's livelihoods. But she warned that people in subdivided flats might have to relocate if new rules were brought in:

Financial Secretary Paul Chan says retail sales could improve in the latter part of this year on the back of a weakening Hong Kong dollar. Hailey Yip reports:

A surgeon in Zurich has performed the world’s first remote endoscopy on a pig in Hong Kong. It was done in May as part of a joint study between the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. During the procedure, the surgeon in Switzerland used a device to remotely control an endoscope in the operating theatre in Hong Kong. Dr Shannon Chan from the Chinese University said the endoscope mirrored with precision every movement made by the doctor. She told Elvis Yu that the technology could be a game-changer for remote regions where local expertise is lacking:

A paediatrician says teachers and parents should focus on helping children with special educational needs adapt to social settings, given that the pandemic had a profound impact on their physical and mental health. Dr Patrick Ip, clinical professor at the University of Hong Kong, says research with more than 1,000 children here found many with special needs lacked interaction and support during the pandemic and this affected them after they returned to the classroom. He told Hailey Yip that additional support at school and at home was needed:

The Hospital Authority says its HA Go app has successfully reduced the waiting time at specialist outpatient clinics. The authority says the app has had over three million downloads and more than two million users since its launch in 2019. The chief manager of cluster performance, Larry Lee, told Vanessa Cheng that HA Go had made it more efficient to manage patient numbers at various facilities:

Police are calling on people who want to join the force to enrol in their mentorship programme. Senior Inspector Jaffy Chan, who oversees recruitment, says the data showed that one in five participants eventually went on to become Probationary Inspectors. This success rate surpasses that of non-participants, where only one out of every 27 people succeed. The inspector told Anne Chan that the mentorship initiative will help candidates with their applications to the police force:

One of the participants and an intern at the Police Force, Luce Lo, says she joined the mentorship programme to seek a more challenging and meaningful job. Around 200 students and graduates from local, mainland and overseas post-secondary institutions joined the programme this year, and police will open applications for next year on September 9. Lo told Anne Chan that she took a hiatus from her full-time job as a financial adviser for the mentorship:

A suspect is being held in connection with Friday’s knife attack in the German city of Solingen, which left three dead and eight wounded at a festival marking the city’s 650th anniversary. The news comes after a 26-year-old man turned himself in to authorities, claiming responsibility for the tragedy. Jamie Clarke reports:

A French court has extended the detention of the head of the Telegram messaging platform, Pavel Durov. According to French media, the tech mogul was accused of violating laws by failing to take action against suspected criminals using his messaging platform to commit crimes. Damon Pang reports:

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has endorsed an imminent start to interest rate cuts, saying further cooling in the job market would be unwelcome. In a highly-anticipated speech to the Kansas City Fed's annual economic conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Powell expressed confidence that inflation was within reach of the US central bank's two percent target. He failed to specify the timing and pace of any cuts. But RTHK's US economics correspondent in Washington, Barry Wood, told Samantha Butler that he expected the Fed to remain cautious:

Paralympic table tennis player, Leung Chung-yan, is joining the Games for the first time. Having clinched a bronze in men’s doubles at the Asian Para Games last year, he will be on his own this time, competing in the men's singles intellectual impairment category. Natale Ching reports:

Hong Kong martial arts actor Jackie Chan has been named as one of the torchbearers in the lead-up to the opening ceremony of the Paralympics in Paris. Jamie Clarke reports:

Hit Chinese video game "Black Myth: Wukong" has quickly become one of the most-played single-player games in the world and is already one of the fastest-selling games of all time. Within 24 hours of its release last Tuesday, it had sold 4.5 million copies and in less than a week that figure has surpassed 10 million. Jamie Clarke reports: