Our editors will be looking ahead today to these developing stories ...
Press get chance to ask Cardinal Zen about gifts
Joseph Zen Ze-kiun will host a press conference today, two days after confidential documents leaked on the internet claimed he had received donations amounting to at least HK$20 million from media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying. The Hong Kong Catholic Diocese's communications office said Zen would meet the press to focus on the Court of Final Appeal ruling which takes away control from the church over some 80 schools operated by the diocese. The cardinal is expected to be bombarded with questions about the alleged private donations he received from Lai, who is said to be aiding his projects on the mainland and in Hong Kong.
Japan's Noda seeks historical amends with Korea
Japan's new Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda will join his South Korean counterpart, President Lee Myung-bak, for a summit in Seoul today amid reports he will return looted historical documents to try to improve ties strained by a territorial dispute. Noda will bring several volumes of historic Korean royal texts taken out of the country during Japan's 1910-45 colonisation, Seoul newspapers say. When Noda took office in late August, South Korea urged his government to 'look squarely' at the past. Japan imposed harsh rule over Korea in the first half of the 20th century, and relations remain prickly.
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