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Ho Man Kong: founder of the Macao Citizen Daily and Macau's first Chinese publisher of record
Ho Man Kong
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.
Lei Seng Chon: a founding builder of the Macao Daily, from patriotic newspaperman to Basic Law drafter
Lei Seng Chon
A 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.