Transport officials say they plan to require taxi drivers to install surveillance cameras inside their vehicles by the end of 2026. And they'll need to provide electronic payment methods by the end of next year. Damon Pang has more.

Lawmaker Frankie Yick welcomed the proposals. Yick, who represents the transport sector, says the use of CCTV cameras inside taxis is something he's called for for many years. He also brushed aside privacy concerns some may have. The Liberal Party councillor spoke to Damon Pang.

The Privacy Commissioner has warned that swindlers could be harvesting the personal data of job-seekers to commit fraud. The watchdog says it's found privacy breaches involving online job adverts. JobsDB said it has now required all companies to disclose their name and contact information in their advertisements "for the benefit of applicants". Natale Ching reports.

The Electrical and Mechanical Services Department was also served an enforcement notice by the privacy watchdog, which directed it to take remedial measures. It comes after the personal data of thousands of people ordered to undergo Covid tests in 2022 were leaked online. In response to the watchdog's findings, the EMSD says it conducted an enquiry with the contractor about the operational details of the server platform to ensure the complete removal of the relevant data. Elvis Yu with that story.

The city's sports sector lawmaker has called for more flexibility in the funding system for sports, looking beyond achievements in Olympic and Asian Games when determining the city's three-tiered support mechanism. Currently sports are separated into three tiers, with those in the top tier considered as ones where athletes have the potential to excel at the Olympics. Those in the second tier are sports with athletes competing in previous and future Olympic or Asian Games. But cue sports such as snooker are at risk of being demoted to the bottom tier, after failing to meet the criteria of being included in enough Asian and Olympic Games. Lawmaker Kenneth Fok told Frank Yung more should be taken into account when funding different sports in the SAR.

Former lawmaker Chim Pui-chung and his son have been found guilty of conspiracy to defraud more than 42 million dollars in transactions linked to a listed company. They'll be sentenced next month. Kelly Yu reports.

The organiser of the Hong Kong Streetathon has admitted that instructions could have been clearer for Sunday's event, after some half-marathon runners went miles out of their way. He told RTHK that staff could have taken more initiative to point runners in the right direction. Kelly Yu reports.

President Xi Jinping and other senior officials say the country would implement a more proactive fiscal policy and a looser monetary policy next year. They also stressed the need to maintain stability in the stock and property markets. The announcement came after a Politburo meeting to analyse and study the economic work of 2025. Altis Wong has more.

BYD is set to exceed its global annual sales goal and overtake Ford and Honda. China's top electric vehicle maker gained market share as the world's largest auto market recorded its fastest-growing month this year. Here's Jacqueline Guico.

Syrians have awoken to an uncertain future, after rebels seized the capital, Damascus and President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia. It ends a 13-year civil war and more than 50 years of his family's rule. Assad's fall wipes out a bastion from which Iran and Russia exercised influence across the Arab world. International governments have welcomed the end of the Assads' autocratic government, as they start to take stock of a new-look Middle East. Paul Rogers, Professor of Peace Studies at Bradford University, told Raymond Yeung that a number of factors led to the rapid collapse of the Assad regime.

Huge crowds have gathered outside an infamous prison in Syria, following allegations that some inmates are being detained in underground cells. The prison just north of the country’s capital of Damascus is known as the “human slaughterhouse”. It had been used by former President Bashar Assad to detain political prisoners and many of the tens of thousands of people who have disappeared since the beginning of the civil war conflict in 2011. Thousands spilled out of Assad's detention system after he was toppled on Sunday, sometimes to tearful reunions with relatives who believed they had been executed years earlier. Jamie Clarke reports.

New York officials say the man suspected of killing a health insurance company executive in a brazen shooting outside a midtown Manhattan hotel last week has been arrested. Sean Kennedy with the details.

A volcano in the central Philippines has erupted for a second time this year. The eruption prompted emergency evacuations, while there have so far been no reports of casualties. Jamie Clarke reports.

Weather forecasters in Europe say the year 2024 will rank as the world's warmest since records began. As Natale Ching reports, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service, or C-3-S, says that the current extraordinary high temperatures are expected to persist into at least the first few months of 2025.

A ninety-two-year-old survivor of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 says the current situation around nuclear weapons is regressing. He was speaking on the eve of his Japanese survivors' group receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway. Terumi Tanaka said that he’s hopeful this year’s award will lead to improvements on the global powers’ attitudes towards nuclear weapons, as Jamie Clarke reports.

Sports now and the Hong Kong, China men's football team have been drawn with Singapore, India and Bangladesh in the final qualifying round of the 2027 AFC Asian Cup. The first Group C game for the SAR will be an away match against Singapore in March next year. Our Asia football correspondent, Chris KL Lau reports.