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ASEAN
ASEAN, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, is an 11-member intergovernmental bloc founded by the 1967 Bangkok Declaration (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand), governed by consensus and non-interference, with Timor-Leste the newest member.
ASEAN Basketball League
ASEAN Basketball League (ABL), a Southeast Asian professional club basketball league founded 2009 under SEABA, championed by Tony Fernandes; nine seasons, champions from the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Hong Kong; dormant since FIBA Asia withdrew recognition in November 2023.
ASEAN Championship
The ASEAN Championship, known as the Tiger Cup and AFF Suzuki Cup, is a biennial football tournament for Southeast Asian national teams, first played in 1996.
ASEAN Charter
ASEAN Charter: constituent treaty of ASEAN, adopted 20 November 2007 in Singapore, in force 15 December 2008; confers legal personality, sets Summit, Coordinating and Community Councils, consensus rule, and AICHR; Timor-Leste acceded 2025.
ASEAN Declaration
ASEAN Declaration, or Bangkok Declaration, signed 8 August 1967 in Bangkok by the foreign ministers of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand; the non-binding founding document establishing ASEAN and its aims.
ASEAN Economic Community
The ASEAN Economic Community is the economic pillar of ASEAN, declared established on 31 December 2015 to free the flow of goods, services, investment, capital, and skilled labor.
ASEAN Football Federation
ASEAN Football Federation (AFF, Persekutuan Bolasepak ASEAN): AFC-recognized regional football body founded 1984, headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, with 12 members including Australia; runs the ASEAN Championship (Tiger Cup since 1996) and futsal, women's, and club tournaments.
ASEAN Free Trade Area
The ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) is a preferential tariff arrangement among ASEAN member states, signed in 1992, under which intra-regional tariffs were largely cut to zero.
ASEAN Integrated QR Code Payment System
The ASEAN Integrated QR Code Payment System is a network of cross-border payment linkages letting users pay merchants in other ASEAN countries by scanning national QR codes.
ASEAN NCAP
ASEAN NCAP is an independent vehicle safety program that crash-tests new passenger cars sold in Southeast Asia and publishes star ratings, established in 2011 by MIROS and Global NCAP.
ASEAN Summit
ASEAN Summit: the supreme policy-making body of ASEAN, its Heads of State or Government meeting twice yearly under the rotating Chairmanship; first held in Bali 1976, 48th Summit in Cebu, Philippines, May 2026, with ASEAN Plus Three and East Asia Summit as related meetings.
ASEAN Taxonomy
The ASEAN Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance, established in 2021, is a classification system defining sustainable economic activities across ASEAN's ten member states, using green, amber, and red traffic-light tiers.
ASEAN–Australia–New Zealand Free Trade Area
The ASEAN–Australia–New Zealand Free Trade Area is a free trade agreement binding ten ASEAN states, Australia, and New Zealand, signed in 2009 and in force from 2010.
ASEAN–China Free Trade Area
The ASEAN–China Free Trade Area (ACFTA) is a trade agreement between the ten ASEAN member states and China, signed in 2002 as China's first FTA.
ASEAN–India Free Trade Area
The ASEAN–India Free Trade Area is a preferential trade zone between ASEAN and India, in force for goods since 2010, covering almost 1.8 billion people and a $4.5 trillion economy.
ASEAN–Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership
The ASEAN–Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership (AJCEP) is a trade agreement between Japan and ASEAN member states, signed in 2008, that eliminates tariffs on most bilateral trade.
ASEAN–Korea Free Trade Area
The ASEAN–Korea Free Trade Area (AKFTA) is a set of agreements between ASEAN and South Korea, proposed in 2003, that progressively eliminate tariffs on goods and liberalize services and investment.
ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office
The ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) is a Singapore-based international organization that monitors 14 Asian economies and supports the US$240 billion Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralisation.
Asebu
Asebu was a coastal state on the Gold Coast of present-day Ghana, remembered for granting the Dutch permission in 1612 to build Fort Nassau, their first fortress there.
ASEE Annual Convention
The ASEE Annual Convention, formally the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, is the American Society for Engineering Education's yearly meeting, first held in 1893 in Chicago.
Aseefa Bhutto Zardari (آصفہ بھٹو زرداری)
Aseefa Bhutto Zardari (born 1993), Pakistani politician, daughter of Benazir Bhutto and President Asif Ali Zardari; MNA for NA-207 since April 2024 and Pakistan's first non-spouse First Lady; leading polio eradication advocate.
Aseel Hameem
Aseel Hameem (أسيل حميم) is an Iraqi singer from Baghdad, born in 1984, whose 2019 heartbreak ballad 'Al Mafroud' was the most streamed song in Saudi Arabia on Spotify.
Aseem Ansari
Aseem Z. Ansari is an American chemical biologist known for artificial transcription factors that control gene expression; he has chaired Chemical Biology and Therapeutics at St. Jude since 2019.
Asees Kaur (ਅਸੀਸ ਕੌਰ)
Asees Kaur (ਅਸੀਸ ਕੌਰ), born 1988 in Panipat, is an Indian playback and independent singer; Gurbani-trained, Indian Idol and Awaz Punjab Di contestant, breakthrough with "Bolna" (2016), two consecutive Filmfare Best Female Playback awards for "Hui Malang" and "Raataan Lambiyan."
Asegun Henry
Asegun Henry is an American mechanical engineer and MIT professor who works on extreme-temperature heat transfer, holds the record for the hottest pump, and founded the thermal-battery company Fourth Power.
Aselsan
Aselsan, formally ASELSAN Elektronik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş., is a Turkish defense electronics company founded in 1975, the largest in Turkey and owned by the Turkish Armed Forces Foundation.
Asemic writing
Asemic writing is wordless, illegible-looking writing with no fixed semantic content, made by poets, calligraphers, and artists. Coined by Tim Gaze and Jim Leftwich in the 1990s; key figures Michaux, Twombly, Barthes, Jacobson; studied in Schwenger's 2019 book.
Asen dynasty
The Asen dynasty (Асеневци) was the ruling house of the Second Bulgarian Empire, founded by the brothers Peter and Asen in the 1185 uprising against Byzantine rule, ruling until 1280.
Asen Zlatev
Asen Zlatev (Асен Златев), Bulgarian weightlifter born 1960, 1980 Olympic middleweight champion, three-time world champion, 225 kg clean and jerk world record at Sofia 1986, later elected president of the Bulgarian Weightlifting Federation in 2025.
Asenapine
Asenapine (Saphris, Sycrest, Secuado) is a tetracyclic atypical antipsychotic given sublingually or transdermally for schizophrenia and bipolar I mania; FDA-approved August 2009, with 35% sublingual bioavailability and less weight gain than olanzapine.