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Former chief secretary Rafael Hui Si-yan, and the co-chairmen of Sun Hung Kai Properties, Raymond Kwok Ping-luen and Thomas Kwok Ping-kwong, will appear at the High Court today at the start of one of Hong Kong's biggest ever corruption trials. The Independent Commission Against Corruption alleges that, between 2000 and 2009, Hui took more than HK$34 million in bribes, and the rent-free use of a flat in Happy Valley, from four other defendants in return for favours.

Billionaire entrepreneur Robert Miller will today make perhaps the largest single donation to the arts in the city when he gives HK$100 million to the Asia Society Hong Kong Centre to promote emerging talent. The money will be used for a new initiative that sees the city's up-and-coming performers collaborate with established international musicians, designers, performers and artists.