They couldn’t have a parade but Cambodia Pride got creative about their Pride Week activities with an amazing race on tuk-tuks yesterday.

Five teams, including one featuring the British ambassador, braved monsoon rain to race around Phnom Penh’s LGBT-friendly spots. They had to complete various challenges - from getting a team photo in an elevator to a hair cut.

Rangoon and Mandalay, the two largest cities in Burma, will host public LGBT rights events for the first time on Thursday.

‘This year there have been some changes in Burma,’ one of the organisers of the events, Aung Myo Min from Human Rights Education Institute Burma (HREIB), told Gay Star News. ‘Whether the change is cosmetic or true, it's better to test the water.’

The University of Hong Kong has denied an extension to the work of an acclaimed academic in transgender studies.

Dr Sam Winter applied for an extension to his tenure which came to an end at the age of 60, but a university committee voted against him. He says the axing of his position, which includes key roles in support groups for trans people in Hong Kong and Asia, was an act of transphobia.

The best vacation advice I've received isn’t ‘don’t drink the water’.

It is: ‘take pictures of people’.

This approach to photography and travel opens doors that you might be scared to knock on, but the experience on the other side is priceless.

Just over two weeks ago, I traversed the island of Bali with the intention of taking as many pictures of people as possible.

Hillary Clinton has faced many challenges during her time as US Secretary of State and one of the biggest has been trying to promote LGBT equality around the world.

Clinton said during an appearance at Syracuse University this week that gay rights is 'just a totally foreign concept' in parts of Africa and Asia.

Phuket Pride, the only LGBT Pride festival in Thailand this year, starts on Sunday and continues for a week of out and proud festivities.

This year the festival is coming out of the 'gay ghetto' area of Patong Beach, the Paradise Complex, and into a more mainstream public area of the Thai beach resort town. That meant securing the support of the local government, Patong municipality.

Bubbleology cafés, the home of quirky drink Bubble Tea, are celebrating their first birthday with a free drink for all London customers this Sunday (22 April).

Popular in south-east Asia, bubble tea is a fruit-infused tea-based soft drink that has caramel-flavoured pearls of tapioca at the bottom. Now Bubbleology are celebrating a year of bringing the quirky drink to London with a cheeky giveaway.

Taiwan has one of the most liberal reputations regarding homosexuality in Asia, but a new survey uncovers the attempted suicides, verbal harassment, physical violence and sexual abuse experienced by significant percentages of gay people on the island.

A short film by Lisa Dazols and Jenni Chang, the lesbian couple traveling the world in search of 'supergays' will be shown Kashish, the Mumbai Queer Film Festival, at the end of May.

Dazols and Chang left their home in San Francisco last June and since then have been traveling around Australia, Asia, Africa and South America looking for inspiring role models fighting for LGBT rights.

Gay British MEP Michael Cashman has met with leaders in Northern Cyprus to show his support for plans to decriminalize homosexuality.

Cashman met with senior politicians, including Prime Minister Irsen Küçük, President Dervi? Ero?lu and Speaker of the Parliament Hasan Bozer, to talk about repealing the homophobic British Colonial Laws, where Articles 171 and 173 punishes 'unnatural sex' with five years jail and gives three years imprisonment for attempts to commit such acts.

Keeping boys as sex slaves and ‘dancing boys’ is on the rise in post-Taliban Afghanistan, according to a report in the Washington Post.

The Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia told a national counseling conference yesterday that the profession was needed to 'curb' the 'spread' of LGBT groups.