The Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court today set 31 days beginning June next year to hear the trial of former Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng who is facing four charges involving the construction of the undersea tunnel project in Penang.

Judge Azura Alwi set the date after allowing deputy public prosecutor Wan Shaharuddin Wan Ladin’s application for all the charges against Lim, 58, to be heard together...