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Politicians are notorious for taking credit for achievements they had little to do with but we wonder how Leung Chun-ying justified listing the efforts of Hong Kong athletes among his personal achievements. There they were in the chief executive's annual report demonstrating his "diligence" and "progress made by government" - along with an exhibition of royal attire and another about dinosaurs. "Hong Kong athletes took part in a number of major events in 2013, including the Asian Youth Games in Nanjing , the National Games in Shenyang and the East Asian Games in Tianjin . They achieved outstanding results, winning a total of 83 medals: 13 gold, 24 silver and 46 bronze medals for these three events alone," the report noted. Also rating a mention were major exhibitions such as a costume show jointly organised by Beijing's Palace Museum and "Legends of the Giant Dinosaurs", which attracted a record-breaking 770,000 visitors. There was, however, no mention of one of the year's banner (or at least mostly highly publicised) events: the long-delayed expansion of the free-to-air television market. Perhaps the controversy over the exclusion of Ricky Wong Wai-Kay's Hong Kong Television Network in favour of established players iCable and PCCW was still too sore a point.

Chinese microblogging site Weibo - which has hundreds of millions of registered voters - is known for its censorship; it is almost impossible for politically incorrect threads to break the firewall. Outspoken singers Anthony Wong Yiu-ming and Wyman Wong Wai-man had their accounts blocked last week due to their support for Occupy Central's unofficial vote on electoral reform. Yesterday, pan-democratic lawmaker Cyd Ho Sau-lan was also blocked - by US-based Facebook. "I uploaded comments on the democracy march last week and the ongoing referendum. I didn't even mention the July 1 pro-democracy rally," she said. But Ho does not believe the official censors were behind it. "I guess some netizens reported my account to Facebook. Perhaps I have too many enemies," she said. "But they should not do this just because they disagree with my stance."