THE LIFE AND TIMES OF FATHER JOSÉ “ZINHO” GOSANOFirst published in the UMA Bulletin Apr-Jun 2011 Vol 34 No 2 [Editor’s Note: A number of years ago the late Fr Zinho Gosano’s friend in New Zealand, a Father John Griffin, sent the UMA News Bulletin editor a floppy diskette containing an autobiographical narrative by Fr Gosano. […]
Padre Manuel Teixeira[This is an extract, roughly translated, from a series of articles in Portuguese about Macau during the Second World War, written apparently by Fr Manuel Teixeira in the early 1980s.]After 40 years, few today remember a man who, during World War II (1941-1945), organised a project of interracial salvation that supported 35,000 families,
Who are the true citizens?Extract from Hong Kong by Harold IngramsLondon, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1952, pp 249-251We cannot however look in these communities for 100% citizens of Hong Kong, nor shall we find them among the British expatriates. There are some British families settled in Hong Kong, but Britain is still home to them.
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MACAU:TRIUMPH AND TRIBULATIONby Stuart BragaWritten at the request of Ed Rozario, President of the Casa de Macau Australia, this series of six essays outlines several aspects of the turbulent history of Macau over a period of four centuries.They were first published in ‘Casa Down Under’ the newsletter of the Casa de Macau, Australia© Stuart Braga
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The Past MasterThe good, the bad and the infamousJason Wordie[Source unknown, but possibly The South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, 2010]Hong Kong’s Legislative Council is often criticised as being an ineffectual “talk shop”. While few would disagree entirely with that, it is a distinct improvement on times past when Hansard issues indicated that many Legco members
The Macanese – A Legacy of Portugal in ChinaFrederic A. (Jim) SilvaEdited 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 East and West.What
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Incêndio no Hipódromo de Happy Valley em 1918Roy Eric XavierAbril 2012Este artigo foi publicado no site Far East Currents, criado pelo Dr. Roy Eric Xavier, da Universidade da Califórnia em Berkeley, que se dedica à investigação sobre a comunidade portuguesa em Hong Kong. O Dr. Xavier autorizou gentilmente a sua reprodução aqui.PrelúdioO final do inverno
Roll of Honour, Stanley Military Cemetery, Hong KongMany of those who died in the defence of Hong Kong in December 1941 are buried in Stanley Military Cemetery and recorded in the Roll of Honour. I have extracted the names of those whom I could identify as Macanese from that list. (In this I was aided
The Life of a VeteranBiography of Henry Anthony Souzaby Michael SouzaIn the List of HKVDC members, he appears as Henrique Antonio Sousa – Ed.In 1841, after losing the First Opium War, China ceded Hong Kong to the Great Britain. The Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps (HKVDC), also known as “The Volunteers”, was established in 1854 to
The Sorry Treatment of our War HeroesBy Anthony CorreaFirst published in the Bulletin of the Lusitano Club (Hong Kong). Top row standing: Army Instructor, , , Luís Romano Sequeira, Charles Edward Mackintosh, Alfredo Silva, Army Instructor, , , Alfredo Soares, ?, , , Army Instructor. Middle row kneeling: , Paulo Reis Front row sitting: ?,
