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

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...

Extracts from a speech originally scheduled for Club Lusitano As an owner of horses, God has been very kind to me and I haveowned many...

by Former POW Cicero Rozario Cícero Laertius do Rozario like other young Portuguese men served in the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Force...

By Stuart Braga The major biographical reference work of people in Great Britain is the Dictionary of National Biography. In Australia,...

By Stuart Braga Two centuries ago, Macau was in trouble. After the collapse of the hugely profitable trade with Japan in1640, hard times...

By Anthony Correa I recently came into my possession some files from my father Frank Correa that shined a light on the disgraceful...

By Stuart Braga 25 January 2017 This odd-sounding name has now been completely forgotten, but Mato Moiro was well-known to all the...

Friday, 21 June 2024 On Friday, 21 June 2024, 100 years and a day after the first flight from Portugal to Macau was successfully...

Club Lusitano President Mr. Patrick Rozario and Members of the General Committee with the delegates of the Celebrations Organizing...

One of Macau’s most prominent landmarks is the church at the southern end of the small peninsula. Standing atop the prominent hill, the...

Fearless Solicitor, witness to the Hong Kong War Tribunal and son of Hong Kong by Teresa da Silva & Anthony Correa Marcus Silva was not...

By Paul Henry Ferraz Barretto Our story begins in India, specifically Bombay (now Mumbai), with our ancestor Antonio Lourenço Barretto of...

Henrique Lourenço de Noronha was born in Macau on 9 August 1841, the eldest son of Delfino Joaquim and his wife Umbelina Maria Basto. He...

Part 2 ‘This atrocious murder’[1] [Summary of Part 1: In 1846, João Maria Ferreira do Amaral, a dynamic and courageous leader, was...

Part 1 ‘A dead man walking’ Of all the 120 governors of Macau from 1623 to 1999, a few stand out, but perhaps the most conspicuous of all...

By Jason Wordie, expanded and amended from previously published SCMP column text Artistic careers begin in the most unlikely places –...

Pioneering doctor, revolutionary, and botanist By Anthony Correa The Portuguese have a long history around the Straits of Malacca, but...