By Professor Clifford Pereira The arrival of Pedro Álvarez Cabral at Porto Seguro in Brazil in 1500 ushered Portuguese colonisation in the Americas, and the beginning of a process of exploitation, removal and ultimately the extermination of many indigenous peoples. Today’s version of the history of Brazil stresses the European and African settlement often at the detriment of the original Brazilian ‘Indians”. The early Asian aspect in the history of Brazil is virtually unknown

Club de Recreio’s Men’s Softball Teams’ Clean Sweep of Senior, “B” & “C” Leagues in 1963-64. By Francisco “Frankie” Leonardo Correa, written in 2015. Macaense Excellence in Sports During the pre- and post-Pacific War period. The Portuguese community, led by Club de Recreio (“Recreio”), enjoyed a golden era in sports in Hong Kong excelling in badminton, cricket, hockey, lawn bowls, soccer and softball.  Even in the minor events such as billiards and snooker, Club Lusitano and

By Anthony Correa Born Filipe Pinto de Morais on 8 August 1947 in Hong Kong, “Philip” Morais as he was to become, is undoubtedly one of the Hong Kong Portuguese Community’s most successful entrepreneurs. The middle child and only son of 3, he grew up in Hillwood Road, amongst the other Portuguese families that had returned to that area of Kowloon after World War II. He attended La Salle College and graduated to attend Technical College (later Hong Kong Polytechnic) studying e

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By Anthony Correa The 1911 revolution that ended the Qing Dynasty and establishment of the Republic of China was the culmination of a...

By Ruy Barretto SC Drawings from The Past, the Portuguese Community in the Volunteers and Prisoner of War sketches 80 years after...