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Asian Baseball Championship
The Asian Baseball Championship is Asia's premier baseball tournament for national teams, organized by the Baseball Federation of Asia, first held in Manila in 1954, and serving as Olympic qualification.
Asian black bear
Asian black bear (Ursus thibetanus), also called moon bear or Himalayan black bear: a Vulnerable, chest-marked forest bear from Iran to Japan, declining from bile hunting and habitat loss, with six to seven subspecies.
Asian Boyz
Asian Boyz (ABZ, ABZ Crips) is a Southeast Asian American street gang based in California, one of the largest Asian street gangs in the United States.
Asian Canadian literature
Asian Canadian literature is writing by Canadians of Asian descent across fiction, poetry, drama, and criticism, a field named in the late 1980s, shaped by head-tax exclusion, 1971/1988 multiculturalism policy, writers such as Kogawa, Lee, Choy, Lai, and Thien, and institutions like Ricepaper and the ACWW.
Asian carp
Asian carp, now termed invasive carp, are four Asian-origin carp species (bighead, silver, grass, black) imported to the U.S. in the 1960s-70s for aquaculture, now invasive in the Mississippi basin and a Great Lakes threat.
Asian Championships of Ski Mountaineering
The Asian Championships of Ski Mountaineering, also known as the Asian Ski Mountaineering Championships, are continental ski mountaineering competitions governed by the International Ski Mountaineering Federation (ISMF).
Asian College of Journalism
The Asian College of Journalism (ACJ) is a postgraduate journalism school in Chennai, India, run by the Media Development Foundation and offering ten-month diploma programs in integrated multimedia and business journalism.
Asian conical hat
Asian conical hat: wide cone-shaped sun-and-rain hat of palm, bamboo, or straw worn across East and Southeast Asia as nón lá (Vietnam), dǒulì (China), kasa (Japan), and satgat (Korea); the term coolie hat is now considered offensive.
Asian Cricket Council
Asian Cricket Council (ACC), formerly Asian Cricket Conference, founded New Delhi 19 September 1983; body organizing and developing cricket in Asia, runs the Asia Cup, headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, current president Mohsin Naqvi.
Asian cuisine
Asian cuisine is an umbrella term for the culinary traditions of Asia, spanning East Asian, Southeast Asian, South Asian, Central Asian, and West Asian systems. Key facts: regional divisions, rice staples, fermentation, diaspora adaptations, and a global restaurant market growing at 11% CAGR outside Asia Pacific.
Asian Development Bank
Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila-based multilateral development bank founded in 1966, distinct from AIIB and NDB. Owned by 69 members (50 regional), led by President Masato Kanda since 2025; plans $93.0 billion in 2025–2027 commitments under Strategy 2030.
Asian Doll
Asian Doll (Misharron Jermeisha Allen), also Asian Da Brat, is an American rapper from Dallas, Texas; first woman signed to Gucci Mane's 1017 Eskimo Records in 2018, known for prolific mixtapes, "Nunnadet Shit," and drill albums.
Asian Dub Foundation
Asian Dub Foundation: British electronic rock band formed 1993 at London's Farringdon Community Music House, fusing jungle, dub, punk, and South Asian music with political lyrics; albums include Rafi's Revenge (1998) and Community Music (2000).
Asian Dust (황사)
Asian Dust (황사, hwangsa; also yellow dust or yellow sand) is a seasonal phenomenon in which westerly winds carry desert soil from Asia over China, Korea, and Japan each spring.
Asian elephant
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), Asia's largest land animal, endangered, 37,000–57,000 wild, in India and Southeast Asia; three subspecies, 22-month gestation, threatened chiefly by habitat loss and human-elephant conflict.
Asian fetish
Asian fetish, or "yellow fever", is sexualized objectification and stereotyping of East and Southeast Asian people, especially women. Rooted in U.S. military presence and Lotus Blossom/Dragon Lady media tropes; linked to depressive symptoms and debated as preference versus racial fetish.
Asian Games
The Asian Games, also known as Asiad, are a multi-sport event held every four years by the Olympic Council of Asia, first staged in New Delhi in 1951.
Asian Games records in track cycling
Asian Games records in track cycling are the fastest times ridden in Asian Games track cycling events, distinct from Asian records compiled by the Asian Cycling Confederation.
Asian giant hornet
Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia), also northern giant hornet or murder hornet, the world's largest hornet, native to Asia; detected in Washington State and British Columbia in 2019 and declared eradicated in the US in December 2024.
Asian golden cat
Asian golden cat (Catopuma temminckii), also Asiatic golden cat or Temminck's cat: a polymorphic, forest-dependent wild cat from Nepal, northeast India, China, Southeast Asia and Sumatra, weighing 9–16 kg, CITES Appendix I, roughly 7,000 mature individuals.
Asian handicap
Asian handicap: soccer betting market giving one team a virtual goal head start to remove the draw; half lines never push, whole lines refund, quarter lines split the stake 50/50. Term coined by Joseph Saumarez Smith in 1998; lower margins than 1X2.
Asian Highway Network
The Asian Highway Network is a United Nations-coordinated system of international highway routes across Asia and Europe, adopted in 1959 and now spanning over 145,000 km through 32 countries.
Asian hornet
Asian hornet (Vespa velutina, yellow-legged hornet), invasive Southeast Asian hornet accidentally introduced to France in 2004; preys on honey bees across western Europe and the US (Georgia 2023), controlled mainly by nest destruction.
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (亚洲基础设施投资银行)
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (亚洲基础设施投资银行), or AIIB, is a multilateral development bank financing infrastructure across Asia and beyond, launched in 2016 with 57 founding members and 111 by 2025.
Asian Journal of International Law
Asian Journal of International Law (AsianJIL), peer-reviewed journal of the Asian Society of International Law, published by Cambridge University Press with NUS Law since 2011; succeeds the Singapore Year Book of International Law; Gold Open Access from 2027.
Asian koel
Asian koel (Eudynamys scolopaceus, 噪鹃), a cuckoo of China, South Asia, and Southeast Asia; a non-evicting generalist brood parasite of crows and mynas with no egg mimicry and loud 'ku-oo' calls.
Asian Kung-Fu Generation (アジアン・カンフー・ジェネレーション)
Asian Kung-Fu Generation, known to fans as Ajikan (アジカン), is a Japanese rock band formed in 1996 at Kanto Gakuin University in Yokohama, led by Masafumi Goto.
Asian nations at the FIFA World Cup
Asian nations at the FIFA World Cup: AFC teams' record at the tournament, from the Dutch East Indies' 1938 debut and South Korea's 2002 semi-final run to a record nine AFC sides at the 2026 World Cup, where only Australia and Japan reached the Round of 32.
Asian News International
Asian News International (ANI) is an Indian multimedia news agency founded 9 December 1971 by Prem Prakash in New Delhi, majority-owned by the Prakash family with a 26% Reuters stake, and repeatedly criticized by EU DisinfoLab for quoting fake sources.
Asian News International v. Wikimedia Foundation
Asian News International v. Wikimedia Foundation (CS(OS) 524/2024) is ANI Media's pending Delhi High Court defamation suit over ANI's Wikipedia page, notable for the Supreme Court's 2025 INSC 656 ruling setting aside a takedown order as disproportionate.