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Asia Argento
Asia Argento (Aria Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento, born 1975) is an Italian actress, director, and singer, daughter of Dario Argento and Daria Nicolodi, known for Scarlet Diva, two David di Donatello awards, and her leading #MeToo role and 2018 Bennett controversy.
Asia Artist Awards (아시아 아티스트 어워즈)
Asia Artist Awards (아시아 아티스트 어워즈, AAA): South Korean annual awards hosted by STARNEWS since 2016, combining K-Pop singers with K-Drama and K-Movie actors; distinct from the separate ASEA ceremony; recent editions in Kaohsiung.
Asia Bibi blasphemy case
Asia Bibi (Aasiya Noreen, آسیہ نورین), Pakistani Christian farm worker, blasphemy case: accused 2009, death sentence 2010 under PPC 295-C, Lahore High Court upheld 2014, Supreme Court acquitted 2018, left for Canada 2019.
Asia Carrera
Asia Carrera (Jessica Andrea Steinhauser, born 1973) is an American former adult film performer and Mensa member who won AVN Female Performer of the Year in January 1995, entered the AVN and XRCO halls of fame, pioneered performer-owned websites, and passed the Texas bar exam in 2026.
Asia Commercial Bank
Asia Commercial Bank (ACB) is a Vietnamese commercial joint-stock bank founded in 1993, focused on retail and SME banking, listed in Ho Chi Minh City since 2020.
Asia Cup
Asia Cup (ACC Asia Cup), men's international cricket tournament run by the Asian Cricket Council since 1984, alternating ODI and T20I formats. 17 editions through 2025; India lead with 9 titles, Sri Lanka 6, Pakistan 2; 2025 won by India in Dubai.
Asia Innovation Ventures
Asia Innovation Ventures, LP is a Delaware venture capital fund formed in 2021, sponsored by Pappas Capital of Durham, North Carolina, investing in next-generation technologies in Asia.
Asia Kate Dillon
Asia Kate Dillon is an American non-binary actor (born 1984, Ithaca, New York) known for Taylor Mason on Billions (2017–2023), the Adjudicator in John Wick: Chapter 3, Brandy Epps on Orange Is the New Black, and campaigning against gendered acting awards.
Asia Partners
Asia Partners is a Singapore-based growth equity firm founded in 2019 by six co-founders led by former Sea president Nicholas Nash, managing US$1.0 billion across Southeast Asia.
Asia Rose Simpson
Asia Rose Simpson, American-Filipino beauty queen from Hobbs, New Mexico and Quezon City; Miss World Philippines 2026 winner and Miss World 2026 Top 12 finalist; SED youth sports-and-dance advocate.
Asia-America Gateway Cable
The Asia-America Gateway (AAG) is a 20,000 km submarine communications cable linking Southeast Asia directly with the United States, completed in 2009 with landing points from Malaysia to Hawaii.
Asia-Pacific Advanced Network
The Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) is a not-for-profit consortium connecting the national research and education networks of the Asia-Pacific region to each other and to research networks worldwide.
Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union
The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) is a not-for-profit professional association of broadcasting organizations, founded in 1964 and headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, whose members serve more than half the world's population.
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is a voluntary, consensus-based forum of 21 Pacific Rim member economies promoting trade and investment liberalization, founded in 1989 and based in Singapore.
Asia-Pacific Gateway (cable)
The Asia-Pacific Gateway is a roughly 10,900 km consortium-owned submarine cable linking eight countries from Japan to Singapore, in service since 2016 with a design capacity above 54 Tbps.
Asia-Pacific Rally Championship
The Asia-Pacific Rally Championship (APRC) is an FIA continental rallying series founded in 1988, contested across two continents from Australia and New Zealand to Japan, China, and India.
Asia-Pacific Telecommunity
The Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (APT) is an intergovernmental treaty organization for telecommunications and ICT cooperation across the Asia-Pacific region, founded in 1976, headquartered in Bangkok, with 38 members.
Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement
The Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement (APTA), originally signed in 1975 as the Bangkok Agreement, is a preferential trade agreement among seven Asia-Pacific states, including China, India, and South Korea, administered by ESCAP.
Asia–Pacific
Asia–Pacific: region spanning East, South, and Southeast Asia plus Oceania around the Pacific; also called Asia-Pacific Rim. ESCAP counts 58 members; APEC's 21 economies hold about 48% of global trade and nearly 40% of world population.
Asia's Got Talent
Asia's Got Talent (アジアズ・ゴット・タレント) was the pan-regional Got Talent edition on AXN Asia, 2015–2019, three seasons, FremantleMedia/Syco, USD 100,000 prize, first winner El Gamma Penumbra.
Asia's Next Top Model
Asia's Next Top Model (AsNTM) was a Pan-Asian reality television competition in which young women across Asia competed in modeling challenges, running from 2012 to 2018.
Asiago
Asiago (Slegar) is a town at 1,001 m in Vicenza province, Veneto, capital of the Seven Communes plateau; destroyed in WWI, rebuilt, home of the Asiago Military Memorial and PDO Asiago cheese.
Asiago cheese
Asiago is an Italian PDO semi-cooked cow's milk cheese from Vicenza and Trento provinces, made in two types: Fresco (pressato), mild and aged 20 days, and Stagionato (d'allevo), made from partially skimmed milk and aged at least 90 days.
Asian
Asian: a racial and ethnic classification, notably the US OMB category for people with origins in Central, East, Southeast, or South Asia, and a contested pan-ethnic identity whose boundaries differ by country, era, and measurement practice.
Asian Agri
Asian Agri is an Indonesian palm oil company founded in 1979, operating plantations and mills in North Sumatra, Riau, and Jambi as part of the RGE group.
Asian American literature
Asian American literature is writing by Americans of Asian ancestry, read as a distinct tradition since the 1970s, when the 1974 anthology Aiiieeeee! defined the field amid political activism.
Asian Americans
Asian Americans: U.S. residents with roots in East Asia, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent; 24.8 million people (7% of the U.S.) in 2023, term coined in 1968, fastest-growing major racial group.
Asian Archery Championships
Asian Archery Championships: continental archery titles run by World Archery Asia (founded 1978 as AAF), first held Kolkata 1980, 24 editions to 2025; recurve and compound, individual, team, mixed team; South Korea leads all-time medals with 96 gold.
Asian arowana
Asian arowana (Scleropages formosus, ikan kelisa, dragonfish): endangered Southeast Asian bonytongue surface predator, CITES Appendix I since 1975, paternal mouthbrooder, traded only as microchipped captive-bred fish.
Asian baby girl
Asian baby girl (ABG), originally Asian Baby Gangster, is slang for a young Asian American woman with a bold, heavily made-up aesthetic, originating in 1980s-1990s California youth culture and later spread and commodified via YouTube, Subtle Asian Traits, and TikTok.