The SCMP reports:

Hong Kong's pornographic-film makers desperately need actors and actresses - and yesterday tried to advertise at a job fair to find them. No experience is required, but they say you have to be "serious and passionate" about the film industry.

The Sun Power Production Company posted an advertisement to hire people at a job fair co-organised by the Good Jobs section of Weekend Weekly magazine and the Hong Kong Employment Development Service. It stated they were looking for actors aged from 18 to 38 to star in adult films. The advertisement was removed 90 minutes after the start of the two-day event. Company manager Tommy Wong said they wanted to produce cheap adult movies. He said the firm believed there was a market in Hong Kong since the adult movie industry was dominated by Japanese and Korean companies.

Asked what qualities the company was looking for, a Sun Power employee said: "The most important thing is to overcome the psychological gap - be willing to take off your clothes. And how much you earn depends on how much you are worth." The basic wage rate for a recruit in the adult film production industry is just HK$3,000 to HK$4,000 a month, and for an actress HK$5,000 to HK$6,000.

The co-ordinator of the fair, Carmen Yan Ka-man, removed the sign but stressed she believed the job was a proper occupation.

And it will dovetail nicely with the Mainland's enlightened attitude to the same industry.