CHAN PUNCHES THE WRONG BUTTONS

Can Jackie Chan, who likes to think of himself as Hong Kong's unofficial ambassador, please button up? Once, the martial artist was the city's greatest tourism asset, but these days he seems to be punching in the wrong direction.

'It makes me very sad to see how my homeland has declined,' he is quoted as saying by Teenhollywood.com. 'Everything bad that can happen to a country has happened to Hong Kong in these past few years. First there was the chicken flu, then swine fever, then chicken flu again, the stock market crash, the real estate crash and now this new Sars disease.' Hardly words to bring joy - or visitors - back to his hometown.