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Hong Kong Tycoon Cecil Chao has doubled his original offer of HK$500 million to the man that successfully marries his daughter, Gigi Chao.

The first LGBT magazine in Bangladesh, named Roopbaan after a Bengali folk character who symbolizes the power of love, has been launched by volunteers.

The Taiwan Tongzhi Hotline Association (TTHA) and other LGBT NGOs have called upon the Ministry of Education to rethink the members of the Committee for Gender Equality, as it contains members who have spoken out against homosexuality.

Up to 65 surrogate babies of gay Israeli couples are stuck in Thailand after wrangling over babies' nationalities at birth.

Bali Pride 2014 will be held on Segara and Semawang Beach in Denpasar, Bali on February 9.

A man in Shanghai has been sentenced to five months in administrative detention for organizing an orgy for himself and seven other men in Xuhui district, the local court said Tuesday.

A TV program of Southern Television (whose name in Chinese is 城事特搜) has reported on LGBT issues for the last three consecutive nights, causing great dissatisfaction in the gay community. 

Here's a roundup of recent LGBT news from Mainland China: Surveys reveal number of gay people in the country as well as attitudes towards the and Real estate tycoon Ren Ziqiang expresses homophobic message in his autobiography.

Decision by the Malaysian Government to ban National Coalition of Malaysian NGOs is also denounced by international human rights organisations.

Aibai Culture & Education Center is a non-profit organisation dedicated to providing critical information on the Chinese speaking LGBT community. Here are the results of a survey the conducted last year in regards to being LGBT in the Chinese workplace.