Portuguese established missions for some decades but then suffered harsh persecution eviction. Japanese Christians took refuge in Macau and contributed to the construction of S. Paulo Church, its famous landmark.
In World War II the Japanese captured Hong Kong but Portuguese Macau was neutral. Portuguese who had fought in the defence of Hong Kong were incarcerated in prisoner-of-war camps in Hong Kong and Japan.
Food Comida Macanese cuisine blended, in a unique fashion, ingredients and flavours from Portuguese settlements and trading-posts spanning half the globe – from Brazil, Mozambique, Goa and Malacca, of course from Portugal and China – and with traces from as far as Japan. We find hot chillies from Brazil, curries from India, coconut and […]
Return of a great survivor A veteran who fought against the Japanese in Hong Kong The South China Morning Post HongKong Thursday September 7 1995 As a young soldier, José Gosano had some close encounters with death. The teenage volunteer was in a foxhole on the slopes of Mount Davis when a Japanese
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF FATHER JOSÉ “ZINHO” GOSANO First 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
The Life of a Veteran Biography of Henry Anthony Souza by Michael Souza In 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),
Experiences at Shamshuipo & Sendai Camps Cicero RozarioCicero RozarioPreviously published in Voz de Macaenses de Vancouver in November, 2001 and in two issues of the Bulletin of Lusitano Club of California. The permission of the Lusitano Club to reproduce these articles is gratefully acknowledged. Drawings by Cicero Rozario and A V Skvorzov, Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Force
