President Xi Jinping has opened the fifth plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, or CPC. At the session in Beijing he delivered a work report and explained efforts to strengthen party self-governance. Raymond Yeung with details.

Two workers were left hanging mid-air outside Jardine House in Central for about two hours yesterday evening, after their gondola suddenly dropped, almost hitting the ground. Elvis Yu reports.

Chief Executive John Lee says Hong Kong can help enhance connections among Belt and Road economies, and combine their strengths, to advance the development of green technologies and sustainable businesses. Wallis Wang reports.

Lawmaker Kenneth Fok has urged the government to enhance cooperation with the Greater Bay Area, to further boost Hong Kong's status as an international aviation hub. The call was among recommendations proposed by the G-19 bloc of Legislative Council members. Wallis Wang reports.

A man is undergoing treatment in hospital after being bitten by a dog in Yuen Long yesterday morning. Elvis Yu reports.

The Securities and Futures Commission has approved the world's first secondary trading of tokenised public funds on its licensed virtual asset trading platform, or VATP. Around-the-clock trading of two tokenised money market funds began on Monday as Wallis Wang reports.

Dermatology specialist Dr Kingsley Chan says "cadaver skin injections" -- which some claim have anti-ageing effects -- lack scientific research and carry significant health risks. Speaking on RTHK's Backchat programme, he also offered advice on how consumers can protect their rights and safety.

Legislators have welcomed arrangements that allow employees to transfer not only their own mandatory provident fund contributions, but also their employer’s, to any scheme they choose once every calendar year. Lawmaker Lam Chun-sing says full MPF portability from December 21 will give employees greater freedom to transfer to other MPF funds. But, speaking on RTHK's Backchat programme, he said the MPF is designed to achieve stable growth, and warned that changing schemes frequently may incur high administrative costs, and affect returns.

Hong Kong, China’s top-performing athletes at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games have been commended by Chief Executive John Lee for their historic performances. Elvis Yu with the details.

AI giant Anthropic has just publicly filed its S-1 investor prospectus with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, paving the way for its initial public offering to happen in November. It is expected to be one of the biggest IPO’s in history. The offering could raise as much as US$100 billion, and that could value Anthropic at between US$1.5 trillion and US$2 trillion - that's according to the Wall Street Journal. Our Silicon Valley correspondent Mark Niu told Todd Harding that the listing may not be as big as SpaceX's but valuation-wise, it is huge.

Meta Platforms says it plans to raise up to US$95 billion in its largest-ever equity fundraising. As Aaron Tam reports, the social media giant is spending aggressively on its costly AI infrastructure expansion.

Brazilian markets have taken a battering following the re-election of leftist President Lula. That reverses a market rally that’d been fuelled by hopes of a victory of his right-wing rival – who has vowed to challenge the election result. Jamie Clarke reports.

Senior officials from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan held talks with Iran on Monday in an attempt to stop the Middle East war from reigniting, with Tehran saying the discussions were "very good". Officials from the three Mecca pact countries flew to Iran as part of efforts to "de-escalate between the parties to the current crisis", a Saudi foreign ministry statement said. Nazvi Careem reports.

Serbia’s student-led movement is targeting a clear parliamentary majority, after the country’s right-wing populist leader conceded defeat in historic elections. The win for the Student List marks a profound political shift in the country of some six million people, but big questions remain, as Jamie Clarke reports.

Anthropic, one of the world's leading artificial intelligence companies, has made public its plans to sell shares on the stock market. The expected US$100-billion listing could raise the value of the company to as much as US$2 trillion, exceeding that of SpaceX, which went public in the summer. Jamie Clarke again.