Overseas volunteers to serve Asiad

GUANGZHOU: Organizers of the Guangzhou 2010 Asian Games will team up with Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan's overseas affairs offices to recruit volunteers for the event, an official with the organizing committee said yesterday.

"We have started initial talks with the overseas affairs offices of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan to recruit more overseas volunteers, who will be an important part of services to better promote the Games' image," Lin Yanfen, deputy director of the organizing committee's volunteer service department, said.

To date just 185 overseas Chinese from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan have submitted their applications, according to Lin. The first foreign volunteer, Alberto de Valle, a Latin dance instructor working in Guangzhou, was signed up in May.