It remains a touchy topic, and the low-key Shanghai Pride annual festival was held for the 12th time in June with organizers declining media coverage. But China's LGBT community has quietly asserted itself in recent years, forming advocacy groups and challenging the status quo.

The following themes highlight part of the Asian Development Bank’s climate change campaigns, developed to raise awareness and drive action across Asia and the Pacific.

It was refloated last week but the larger crisis remains, amid warnings that soaring freight costs could affect supplies of key goods or consumer prices.

The elephants, including two born since they’ve been on the road, have travelled over 700km in 16 months, delighting the public but worrying officials

While disordered eating can affect anyone, western studies have indicated they are most prevalent in teenage girls and young women, and often those already impacted by other mental health problems.

The situation in Wenzhou, a trade entrepot for centuries and now a major producer of much of the world's shoes, eyeglasses and clothing, reflects the slow progress in fully reviving China's economy, the world's second-largest and an indispensable lynchpin of global growth.

It is an important time of year for villagers in Yongchun county, a mountainous area in southeast Fujian Province that supplies much of the world's incense.