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Asian option
An Asian option, also called an average rate option, is an option whose payoff depends on the average price of the underlying asset over a period.
Asian Paints
Asian Paints is an Indian multinational paint and home décor company headquartered in Mumbai. Founded in 1942, it has led the Indian paint market since 1967.
Asian palm civet
Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus), also called common palm civet or musang, a 2–5 kg Southeast Asian viverrid; Least Concern, seed disperser, source of kopi luwak coffee, split into three Paradoxurus species.
Asian Paralympic Committee
The Asian Paralympic Committee (APC), founded 2002 in Busan, is the IPC's regional body for Asia with 45 NPCs in five sub-regions. It runs the Asian Para Games, with the 5th edition in Aichi-Nagoya, October 2026, under President Majid Rashed.
Asian people
Asian people: a broad classification for people with origins in Asia, defined in US census terms as the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent; covers East, South, and Southeast Asian groups whose boundaries and usefulness are contested.
Asian Physics Olympiad
The Asian Physics Olympiad (APhO) is an annual international physics competition for pre-university students from Asian countries and Oceania, first held in Indonesia in 2000.
Asian Renewable Energy Hub wind farm
The Asian Renewable Energy Hub is a proposed 26 GW wind and solar project in East Pilbara, Western Australia, intended to produce green hydrogen and ammonia for export.
Asian Saga
The Asian Saga is James Clavell's six-novel historical fiction series (1962–1993): Shogun, Tai-Pan, Gai-Jin, King Rat, Noble House, Whirlwind, set 1600–1979 across Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Iran, linked by the Struan trading family.
Asian supermarket
An Asian supermarket is a large grocery store specializing in foods, produce, and household goods from Asian cuisines, with North American chains including H Mart, 99 Ranch Market, and T&T Supermarket.
Asian Table Tennis Championships
The Asian Table Tennis Championships is the continental table tennis championship for Asia, first held in Singapore in 1952 and staged across seven events including team, singles, and doubles.
Asian values
Asian values: 1990s political discourse, advanced by Lee Kuan Yew and Mahathir Mohamad, claiming Asian societies prioritize order and society over individual rights, so universal human rights and liberal democracy fit Asia poorly; peaked at the 1993 Vienna conference, declined after the 1997–98 financial crisis.
Asian Village
Asian Village (القرية الآسيوية) is the Asia-themed zoo zone of Dubai Safari Park in Al Warqa 5, Dubai, known for the UAE's first Moon Bear exhibit, Komodo dragon, gibbons, and live shows; the name also labels former attractions in Sentosa and themed zoo areas elsewhere.
Asian Volleyball Confederation
Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC), the FIVB's continental confederation for Asia and Oceania, founded 5 May 1952, Bangkok headquarters, 65 member federations, five zones, president Ramon Suzara 2024–2028.
Asian water monitor
The Asian water monitor (Varanus salvator), also called the common water monitor or biawak, is a large semi-aquatic lizard of South and Southeast Asia, among the world's largest lizards.
Asian-American cuisine
Asian-American cuisine is the food culture of Americans of Asian descent, blending Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, and Vietnamese traditions, known for fusion dishes like Roy Choi's Korean taco.
Asiana Airlines (아시아나항공)
Asiana Airlines, also known as Asiana Hanggong, is a South Korean full-service airline founded in 1988, hubbed at Incheon International Airport, to be absorbed into Korean Air in 2026.
Asiana Airlines Flight 214
Asiana Airlines Flight 214 was a Boeing 777 that struck a seawall while landing at San Francisco International Airport on July 6, 2013, killing 3 passengers.
Asianet (TV channel)
Asianet (ഏഷ്യാനെറ്റ്) is a Malayalam general entertainment TV channel, the first private Malayalam satellite channel, launched August 30, 1993; distinct from Asianet News and Asianet Satellite Communications, now under JioStar.
Asianet News
Asianet News is an Indian Malayalam-language news channel owned by Asianet News Network, controlled largely by Rajeev Chandrasekhar and generally the leader in Malayalam news television.
Asiaq Dorsa
Asiaq Dorsa is a 400-km-wide dorsum (ridge feature) on Venus at 53°S, 55°E in quadrangle v56, named by the IAU in 1997 after an Eskimo weather goddess.
AsiaSat
AsiaSat, formally Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited, is a Hong Kong-based satellite operator founded in 1988 that owns six in-orbit satellites serving broadcast and telecom customers.
Asiatic campaign of Pepi I
The Asiatic campaigns of Pepi I were Egyptian punitive expeditions against the Asiatic Sand-dwellers, commanded by the official Weni under Pepi I of the 6th Dynasty.
Asiatic campaigns of Thutmose III
The Asiatic campaigns of Thutmose III were at least seventeen Egyptian expeditions into Syria and Palestine over twenty years, beginning with the victory at Megiddo and reaching the Euphrates.
Asiatic Cavalry Division
The Asiatic Cavalry Division (Азиатская конная дивизия) was a multiethnic White cavalry formation of the Russian Civil War, raised by Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg and active in Transbaikalia and Mongolia from 1918 to 1921.
Asiatic cheetah
Asiatic cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus venaticus), critically endangered Asian cheetah subspecies surviving only in Iran's central plateau; fewer than 100 remain, threatened by poaching, road deaths, sanctions, and war.
Asiatic Department of the Foreign Ministry
The Asiatic Department of the Foreign Ministry (Азиатский департамент МИД) was the subdivision of Russia's foreign ministry handling relations with the Ottoman Empire, Persia, and China, created in 1819.
Asiatic lion
Asiatic lion (Panthera leo persica), the lion population surviving only in Gujarat's Gir Forest, India; 891 lions in 2025, low genetic diversity, now taxonomically grouped in P. leo leo.
Asiatic Petroleum
Asiatic Petroleum was a petroleum marketing joint venture formed in London in 1903 by Shell, Royal Dutch, and the Rothschilds, renamed The Shell Petroleum Company Ltd in 1946.
Asiatic salamander
Asiatic salamanders (Hynobiidae, 小鲵科) are a family of small Asian salamanders, sister to giant salamanders in Cryptobranchoidea, with external fertilization, paired egg sacs, about 106 species from European Russia to Japan.
Asiatic–Pacific Campaign Medal
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal: US World War II theater decoration established by Executive Order 9265 (November 6, 1942) for service in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater from December 7, 1941 to March 2, 1946, with campaign stars and arrowhead devices.