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Howard is a Hongkonger in the UK. He is a former human rights lawyer, now a freelance writer and photojournalist, also shooting as a travel and portrait photographer.
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Howard Cheng: Final Fantasy XIV Fan Fest: a celebration of the game. And a source of anxiety

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4 mn readThe Final Fantasy XIV (“FFXIV”) Fan Fest is a major event for fans of the popular video game, which boasts over 27 million players according to FFXIV’s own website. The Las Vegas 2023 FFXIV Fan Fest took place over two days on 28 and 29 July 2023. Whilst content on social media about the FFXIV Fan Fest in Las Vegas can make others look forward to the FFXIV Fan Fest in London, due to take place in October, the stream of social media posts about the event can also be a source of anxiety and stress for many fans.

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Howard Cheng: Twitter is slowly driving me away, but what next?

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3 mn readThings have changed dramatically on Twitter over the past nine months, and it has been quite the roller-coaster ride. I am still on the platform, but I the time I spend on there has lessened rather dramatically. Twitter is basically a pay-to-play platform now, with Elon Musk describing their content during a Twitter Spaces session as being like the spam folder in one’s email inbox. Whether such a description was intentional or an unhappy coincidence, we probably will never find out, but the way the algorithm has been tweaked to favour subscribers, it certainly does feel as if non-subscribers’ content is only an afterthought now.

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Howard Cheng: Why we should stop saying “Chinese New Year” as a catch-all term?

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4 mn readThis coming weekend will see many celebrate “Chinese New Year” on Sunday 22 January 2023. What many people know as “Chinese New Year” is celebrated by those in Mainland China, but it is not an exclusive Chinese festival. Many East Asian cultures celebrate the New Year falling on the same day as “Chinese New Year” – for example the Taiwanese, Vietnamese, Koreans. Mongolians and Tibetans also celebrate a festival based on the progress of the moon through the cosmos, with the Mongolian New Year (Tsagaan Sar) and the Tibetan New Year (Losar) falling on or around the same day as “Chinese New Year”. This year, Tsagaan Sar and Losar will fall on 21 January 2023 whilst “Chinese New Year” is on the day after that. In 2024, “Chinese New Year”, Tsagaan Sar and Losar will all fall on 10 February 2024.

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Howard Cheng: A new year, a new you. Or should you rethink that idea?

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3 mn readIt’s a new year. 2023 is now underway. With the new year often comes the dreaded question: “What New Year’s resolutions have you made?” Signed up with the gym to get fitter? Work more sensible hours to spend more time with your family? Do something you really think you should do? Despite the clamour to […]

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