A Macau newspaperman and novelist, Ho Man Kong founded the Macao Citizen Daily. A native of Shunde, Guangdong, born in 1909, he first worked in education, teaching at Macau's Chongshi and Catholic schools, before moving into journalism in the 1940s as an editor and writer at the New Voice Post (新聲報) and the People's Livelihood Post (民生報). On 15 August 1944, together with Choi Pui-chi, U Kei-ping, Chan Ha-chi, Lei Hang, and Pun Hou, he founded the Macao Citizen Daily, serving as publisher and as its publisher of record (督印) — the first Chinese to hold that role in Macau's press — with Chan Ha-chi as editor-in-chief. Founded amid the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Second World War, in a harsh political climate, the Citizen Daily held a firm stance and repeatedly stood against pro-Japanese press figures. He was also a well-known Macau novelist whose work enriched the city's fiction. He died in 2010, aged over 100.
In 1944, with the shadow of Japanese occupation over South China, Macau had become an island of refuge in a time of war. On 15 August of that year, a Shunde-born man who had left teaching for writing founded a newspaper in Macau — the Macao Citizen Daily — and with it became the first Chinese to serve as a publisher of record in Macau's press.
Ho Man Kong was a Macau newspaperman and novelist, the founder of the Macao Citizen Daily. A teacher first, then a newspaperman, and finally known for his fiction, his life spanned education, journalism, and literature — and is remembered through a paper born in wartime that still publishes today.