Previous updates on the ongoing Tung resignation saga all via that link.

• China is sending its spies into Hong Kong to work out who leaked details of Tung's resignation. Cue the next uproar.
• Donald Tsang has been told to keep the same team in power, firmly putting in place his role as only a caretaker rather than a true new Chief Executive, says the SCMP. Just what the city needs - a lame duck for 2 years.
• Isn't it great that Hong Kong calls it top political official the Chief Executive. Why not go all the way and make Donald Tsang the CEO, with Henry Tang as CFO.
• The SCMP also reports Tung will officially resign in Hong Kong before leaving tomorrow for Beijing and his appointment as vice-chairman of the CPPCC.
• Yesterday I looked at the legal gamble Beijing is taking in not "interpreting" the Basic Law over the new CE's term. Today there are more Beijing scholars on the offensive. The SCMP reports Professor Rao Geping of the Insitute of HK and Macau Affairs says Hong Kong's courts are not empowered to consider how long Tung Chee-hwa's successor should serve, since the power to interpret Basic Law provisions on the political structure is vested in the central authorities. Reassuringly NPC Standing Committee deputy secretary-general Qiao Xiaoyang said the Standing Committee had been very cautious in exercising its power to interpret the Basic Law, and would only do so when the mini-constitution "was not correctly implemented or the situation could not be rectified by other means. Get it right or Beijing will get it right for you. Hong Kong's legal experts see the issue clearly, too. Bar Association chairman Philip Dykes said it was plain the new CE should have a 5 year term according to the Basic Law. The democrats in HK cannot decide if they should launch a legal challenge to the 2 year term, weighing up the constitutional crisis against standing up for rule of law. Luckily a bunch of pro-Beijing barristers may do the job for them. Yes, we have finally hit farce.