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However, in 2008, the country voted to make same-sex marriage illegal.

Last month, the top court in Hong Kong ruled in favour of a same-sex couple suing the government for failing to recognise their marriage.

LGBT rights groups have criticised the bill for failing to provide genuine marriage equality.

'This acknowledges that we are here’ politician Taiga Ishikawa said of LGBT people as he won a seat in Japan’s Upper House

Taiwan’s ministry of education welcomed the news.

The Indonesian city of Depok with nearly two million inhabitants is planning an anti-LGBT law.

Ministry of Justice official Yan Cheng-yi reportedly claimed same-sex marriage ‘would bring AIDS to Taiwan’.

One of the first ever investigations into the family violence experienced by LBT people in Cambodia revealed shocking statistics.

South Korea's Presbyterian University suspended students for wearing rainbow clothing to chapel.

Only 9% of the notoriously anti-LGBT Liberal Democratic Party candidates standing in upcoming elections said they backed equal marriage.