The health minister has called on Hong Kong's two medical schools to step-up their training for doctors. Lo Chung-mau's remarks came after two blunders involving the incorrect placements of feeding tubes in patients at public hospitals. Anne Chan reports:

Financial Secretary Paul Chan has hailed recent amendments to the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement, or CEPA, as a significant enhancement to Hong Kong’s competitiveness. As Elvis Yu reports, Chan said he expected many more foreign professionals and companies to use the SAR as a base for entering the mainland market:

Chief Executive John Lee will be unveiling his new policy blueprint for the coming year on Wednesday. He has promised that measures to boost economic growth will be the focus of his latest policy address, but many people are also anticipating that he will give new details on how his administration will tackle Hong Kong’s subdivided flats problem. In the first of a series of features looking ahead to Wednesday’s speech, Natale Ching examines the needs and problems faced by some tenants of subdivided flats:

An anti-alcohol group says it hopes the government does not reduce liquor taxes in the upcoming Policy Address, saying this would pose a significant public health risk. The head of the Hong Kong Alliance for Advocacy Against Alcohol says alcohol is linked to over 200 diseases and injuries. In Hong Kong, liquor with an alcohol content of more than 30 percent has a 100 percent tax - one of the highest in the world. Wine duties were abolished in 2008. Elvis Yu reports:

A survey has found that local school children are slightly happier in general this year compared to last. Lingnan University is among four institutions that polled some three and a half thousand primary and secondary school students earlier this year. On a scale 1 to 10, their happiness index narrowly rose from 6.62 a year ago, to 6.75. The survey found that students in general felt less academic pressure but it found they faced challenges in interpersonal relationships and overall well-being. The poll said the older the student, the less happy they were. Ho Lok-sang, an adjunct professor from the university's STEAM Education and Research Centre, told Raymond Yeung more about the survey:

The Prince of Wales hospital has introduced an advanced imaging technology which could speed up the diagnostic and treatment time for acute stroke patients to just 20 minutes. Compared with traditional CT scans, the new MRI exam has a higher certainty in identifying early symptoms in the brain, as well as the onset time of stroke. 20 patients who took part in the clinical trial showed promising results. Dr Ma Sze-ho, an associate consultant at the hospital's department of medicine and therapeutics, explained to Kimmy Lau what the one-stop acute stroke management model was about:

Experts are warning people about thyroid eye disease, saying it is not exclusive to those with thyroid disorders, with around seven percent of patients in Hong Kong having a normal functioning thyroid gland. The College of Ophthalmologists and the Ophthalmology Society say the eye disease may cause permanent damage to patient's eyesight and physical appearance and urged people to seek professional help immediately if they develop symptoms, such as double vision, bulging eyes, and eyelid retraction. Dr Kelvin Chong from the College of Ophthalmologists told Charlie Chun more about the disease, and the potential causes for it:

Former top judge Sam Hou-fai has been named Macau’s new leader following an uncontested election. As Damon Pang reports, he received almost 99 percent of votes from a 400-strong election committee:

Israel says a drone strike by Hezbollah has wounded more than 60 people in one of the most serious attacks in the year-long war. It comes after Hezbollah said it had fired attack drones on an Israeli infantry training camp on a town north of Tel Aviv. Jamie Clarke reports:

A shocking number of pregnant women in Lebanon are experiencing fetal deaths, with more and more giving birth prematurely amid the ongoing conflict between Hezbollah and Israel. That is according to an obstetrician living in Lebanon. As Jamie Clarke reports, the problem for pregnant women could worsen with high levels of displacement among the Lebanese population as well as inadequate nutrition and sanitation:

State media say China's consumer prices steadied in September amid a sustained recovery of domestic demand. Meanwhile, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed the producer price index, measuring the cost of goods at the factory gate, went down 2.8 percent year-on-year in September. Sean Kennedy reports:

Last week's inflation data from the US looks to have provided more evidence that the Federal Reserve is nearing its two percent objective. Consumer and producer price indexes for September both came in around expectations. Debate has been intensifying over whether the Fed might have a smaller rate cut, or none at all, at its November meeting, following a strong September jobs report. But RTHK's US economics correspondent in Washington, Barry Wood, told Janice Wong that the US economy was slowing at a modest pace and he expected a 25 basis point reduction in interest rates next month:

SpaceX has pulled off the boldest test flight yet of its Starship rocket, by catching the rocket’s returning booster back at the launch pad with mechanical arms. A jubilant Elon Musk, SpaceX’s founder and CEO, called it “science fiction without the fiction part.” Jamie Clarke reports: