The Macanese – A Legacy of Portugal in China by Frederic A. (Jim) Silva Edited talk given at the 2004 Encontro in Macau. Whoever said “East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet” ” had obviously never met a Macanese, for in the Macanese there has been the perfect blending of […]
How the Post reported Hong Kong’s first Olympics team Andrew Sheets SCMP 4 Aug 2016 In 1950, the clubs of the Hong Kong Amateur Swimming Association banded together for a gala to raise HK$10,000 to send the territory’s first Olympians, “seven men, ve women, and one coach/manager” to the Games. The effort fell short
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Bela Vista – Recollections of a Wartime Childhood Raquel de Carvalho Remedios First published in UMA Bulletin Spring 2013; reproduced here with links to people’s personal pages and with the addition of a photo from Escola Particular Idália da Luz It was Monday morning, December 8, 1941 and our amah, Ah Say, was trying her
Our Bairro O Nosso Bairro Jorge Remedios (First published in the UMA News Bulletin circa 1999) (Publicado pela primeira vez no boletim informativo da UMA por volta de 1999) The bairro was an area of cheap housing in Macau constructed for low-income workers in the years before the Second World War. As was true of
The Friendly Portuguese Staff Sergeant H.P. McNaughton Staff Sergeant H.P. McNaughton was a Canadian prisoner-of-war in Sham Shui Po Camp in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Here he expresses his friendship with his fellow Portuguese prisoners. This design was made by Naneli Baptista. O sargento H.P. McNaughton foi prisioneiro de guerra canadiano no campo de Sham Shui
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Who are the true citizens? Quem são os verdadeiros cidadãos? Extract from Hong Kong by Harold Ingrams, Hong Kong Excerto de Hong Kong de Harold Ingrams London, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1952, pp 249-251 We cannot however look in these communities for 100% citizens of Hong Kong, nor shall we find them among the British expatriates. There are
Chivit, Pardal, Bico-chumbo e Otro pastro-pastro Macaísta by Luis F. Baptista PhD Originally published in the UMA News Bulletin Nov-Dec 1998. One of the most important events of my life was when during my third year in university my friend Chris Wemmer recommended that I read Nobel laureate Konrad Lorenz’s popular book “King Solomon’s Ring”. This classic was my
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Gloria Barretto Be it local plants or local life, the Portuguese botanical specialist, who was born and raised in Hong Kong, was a fount of knowledge with many an entertaining story to narrate Jason Wordie South China Morning Post, 30 Jun 2017 Quer se tratasse de plantas locais ou da vida local, o especialista botânico
HKVDC: Portuguese Members Alfred Ernest Ablong, Corporal 2468 No. 6 (Portuguese) LAA Company A.G. 12 & 13 P&O Building XD5 Reinald Sydney Ablong, Sapper 2974 Unallocated HKVDC Mario Francisco Alarcon, Private 4053 No. 6 (Portuguese) LAA Company A.G.1 Taikoo Office Argyle Patrick Ed. d’Almeida, Private 2637 Unallocated HKVDC Christopher Paulo d’Almada e Castro, Captain No. 5 (Portuguese)
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Amaral and Mesquita by Henry d’Assumpção Flag of Portugal Macau was settled in the middle of the 16th Century when Portugal was a major naval power. It was on a tiny peninsula connected to the mainland by a long, narrow isthmus where there was a barrier erected by China to control movement into and out
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