Yam Kumari Kandel

KATHMANDU, July 8:  Two years ago, when Ashok Jung Koirala and Sandip Thapa each joined Blued, China’s largest gay dating app, neither thought to date nor find a marriage partner.

Worldwide, PCOS is often missed in teenage girls as they go through puberty. Jane Dipika Garrett draws on her own struggles with the disorder to boost awareness — and self-acceptance.

The country long seen as a beacon for LGBTQI rights in South Asia still has no law recognizing same-sex marriage. Here's how two couples broke through the bureaucracy — and why hundreds of others still wait to say “I do.”