A City's Voice
Newspapers and media carry a city's memory and voice. Macau's press has a long history, nurturing journalists who combined news work with cultural devotion.
Lei Seng Chon李成俊 · Lei Seng ChonA Macau newspaperman, cultural figure, and association leader, Lei Seng Chon was one of the founding builders of the Macao Daily News. A native of Xinhui, Guangdong, born in Macau in 1926, he helped found the Macao Daily in 1958, starting as its manager and rising through deputy editor-in-chief, editor-in-chief, and publisher to chairman — steering Macau's largest-circulation Chinese daily for decades. A member of the China Writers Association and honorary president of the Macau Pen Club and the Macau Journalists Association, he was also deeply involved in national and Macau constitutional affairs: a deputy to the 9th National People's Congress, a member of the 8th and 9th National CPPCC, a member of the Basic Law Drafting Committee, a member of the Macao SAR Preparatory Committee, and Vice-Director of the NPC Standing Committee's Macao Basic Law Committee. He received the Golden Lotus Medal (2002), the Grand Lotus Medal of Honour (2009), and an honorary Doctorate of Humanities from the University of Macau (2011). He died in Macau on 30 December 2015, aged 90.Read profile → devoted years to Macau's press and cultural causes, taking part in the founding and growth of the Macao Daily News and remaining active in associations and cultural circles; Ho Man Kong何曼公 · Ho Man KongA 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.Read profile → was a veteran Macau journalist and man of letters who chronicled his era in words; and the journalist-littérateur Lei Pang Chu李鵬翥 · Lei Pang ChuA Macau newspaperman and writer, editor-in-chief of the Macao Daily News. A native of Meixian, Guangdong, born in Macau, he was a man of both prose and poetry whose learning ranged across Lingnan history, Macau lore, painting and calligraphy connoisseurship, and literary criticism. The Cultural Affairs Bureau called him "a seeder and promoter of Macau literature". He served on the Cultural Committee, the Cultural Advisory Committee and the Macao Orchestra Advisory Committee, was a member of the China Writers Association and a deputy to the 10th National People's Congress, and died in Hong Kong on 30 October 2014.Read profile → long directed the editorial line of the Macao Daily News, building a bridge between journalism and literature.
A Lineage of News and Publishing
Grounded in the public record, this series presents each figure's contributions to the press, publishing and cultural life. Their writing was both a record of Macau society and an essential part of the city's cultural identity.
