Hundreds of social welfare groups are continuing to snub moves to increase AIDS awareness. They are refusing to sign a charter which aims to ban discrimination against HIV-infected workers.
Hui Yin-fat, director of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service, says that although 24 social welfare groups have signed the Community Charter on AIDS, another 200 organisations could not be budged.
He said the council had applied for up to an extra $1 million from the AIDS Trust for educational purposes. The charter, launched in 1994, aims to promote anti-discrimination measures for workers infected with HIV, the virus which leads to AIDS.
Martial arts and action movie hero Jackie Chan has been signed up by talent super-agents, the William Morris Agency. Chan has a multi-picture deal with New Line productions, which released his hit Rumble in the Bronx, and will release his next movie, First Strike, in January. Chan's plans include television projects, books and commercials in the United States.
Greenpeace Hong Kong will help China develop new technologies to tackle environmental problems in a constructive rather than confrontational way. Greenpeace International executive director Thilo Bodek said that finding a Hong Kong executive director could take another year. The organisation is looking for the right trilingual candidate with environmental interests, and campaigning and economic experience.
John Kennedy Jnr and Carolyn Bessette drew up a contract before their marriage last month which states how much he would pay her if the marriage did not last, reports said. According to a British newspaper, the terms in the pre-nuptial pact ensure that the longer the marriage lasts, the more money Ms Bessette would get in the event of a divorce.