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...

By Mr Ken Chad Journeying to the 25th floor of the Club, the first person we are greeted by is Vasco da Gama. A bit over-dressed for the...

Transcript of a speech by Professor Cliff Pereira FRGS, Club Lusitano, 20 July 2021 The Cape of Flowers. A linguistic trail. My first...

Club Lusitano is proud to celebrate its 100 years at its Ice House Street location. Extracts from the Club’s 150th Anniversary History....

By Anthony Correa At the outbreak of war in 1941, the local Indian civilian community like the Portuguese community were thrown into...

From Stuart Braga’s new book ‘Nos sa Téra, Nos sa Génti’ Visitors to Hong Kong now find a community that works well, despite continuing...

Successful Rowing Venture by Five Portuguese Youths 18 July 1930 South China Morning Post

By Anthony Correa “He had a profound love of Hong Kong and a deep commitment to public service.” – former Hong Kong Governor David Wilson...

By Mr. Ken Chad Early Years and Education José Pedro Braga, or JP Braga as he was known, was born in Hong Kong on the 3rd of August 1871....

By Anthony Correa Francisco “Frank” Paulo de Vasconcelos Soares was born in Hong Kong to a Portuguese family from Macau. Both his father...

Extracts from his extraordinary, and colourful autobiography, “Hong Kong Farewell”, by Eddie Gosano, (1997), after he migrated to the...

By Mr Stuart Braga One of the world’s first hijackings of a commercial flight occurred on 16 July 1948 with the attempted take-over of a...

By Anthony Correa A de O. “Sonny” Sales was born in the French Concession of Shamain Island, Canton (now Guangzhou) on 13 January 1920....

Henry d'Assumpcao, An Oral History It was December 8th 1941, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, one of the ten...

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