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It’s been a busy start to the year in Hong Kong with news from the courts and the people suggesting that acceptance of the LGBT community is tentatively on the up. Let’s have a quick look at what’s been going on.

Singapore's first specialist LGBT Diversity Wealth Management service was launched at a recent event in Singapore

"Firelight of a Different Colour" is a new biography of Hong Kong superstar Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing. The author, Nigel Collett, was kind enough to answer some of our questions about the actor, singer, songwriter, and director about Cheung's stardom and sexuality.

The Nominees and Panelists for the Asia Pink Awards 2014 have been released.

The first LGBT public service announcement for China has been released by Queer Comrades. And the good news is, it hasn’t yet been banned.

With a guaranteed place in Singapore’s political history as the country’s first openly-gay election candidate, Dr Vincent Wijeysingha talks about his life before politics. Originally published in Element Magazine. 

Standard Chartered in Thailand has launched a range of banking services for people in ‘committed relationships’ regardless of gender or sexual orientation.

Taiwanese pop superstar A-mei performed a free concert in support of same-sex marriage on Sunday to the delight of nearly 20,000 fans.  

How hard should you lobby for equality and how quickly should you expect attitudes to change? Two of Hong Kong's most important advocates of equality for LGBT people, York Chow Yat-ngok and Professor Fanny Cheung Miu-ching, have differing approaches. Fridae's Hong Kong correspondent Nigel Collett reports.

The 2009 Anti-Homosexuality Bill has been now passed by Uganda's parliament. The President could sign it into law as early as tomorrow as LGBT people fear further persecution in the conservative country.