TAIPEI: Same-sex Taiwanese-Chinese couples are now legally able to register their marriages in Taiwan, Taipei said on Thursday (Sep 19). Taiwan has long been at the forefront of Asia's burgeoning LGBTQ rights movement, becoming in 2019 the first place in the region to legalise marriage equality. But tensions between Taiwan and China – which claims the self-ruled island as part of its territory and maintains daily military movements around it – have meant cross-strait same-sex couples were not