On January 14, the trial of Sir Donald Tsang, Hong Kong’s former chief executive who served from 2005 to 2012, was set for January 3 of 2017. This past December, Tsang pleaded not guilty to two counts of misconduct in public office, charges on which he was indicted in October. At issue is an apartment Tsang rented in the Chinese border city of Shenzhen from Bill Wong Chor-bau, a shareholder of the Digital Broadcasting Corporation (DBC), Hong Kong’s biggest broadcaster. At the time of the lease, DBC’s Hong Kong broadcasting license was pending before Tsang’s administration.