Tung Che-hwa has finally learnt the secret to ensure his popularity: stay out of sight. His popularity has risen to a two year, not co-incidently at the same time as he has barely featured in local news. If he keeps this up he could end up doing a double service to Hong Kong: staying out of the way and enhancing his standing. Talk about win-win. With the news dominated with the non-story of the year, which is stumping even the finest from the British Foreign Office, Tung's ratings can only rise further from here.

This is the same Hong Kong that has yet again shown its heels to its erstwhile rival, Singapore. The China Daily reports Hong Kong is the least bureaucratic region in Asia, according ot a poll of drunken expats taken at some bar after a long hot Sunday afternoon. I'm not quite sure why taking expats' opinions of Governments is considered a valid surveying technique, but whatever. I wonder if they surveyed Macau, where bureaucracy is minimal. There the casinos do Big Brother for them.