127,669 articles
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-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 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.
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 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 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.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
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 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 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.
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.
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 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–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.
Asibandhakaputta
Asibandhakaputta (Pali; Burmese အသိဗန္ဓကပုတ္တ) was a village headman of the Buddha's time, a Nigaṇṭha follower whose four dialogues with the Buddha, SN 42.6–9, led him to take refuge.
Asid ibn Hudhayr
Asid ibn Hudhayr (أسيد بن الحضير) was a companion of Muhammad from the Aws tribe in Medina, appointed one of the twelve captains at the second pledge of al-'Aqaba.
Asiento de negros (South Sea Company)
The Asiento de negros was a 1713 contract between Spain and England giving the South Sea Company a thirty-year monopoly on supplying enslaved Africans to Spanish America.
Asieris Pharmaceuticals (亚虹医药)
Asieris Pharmaceuticals (亚虹医药), legally Jiangsu Yahong Meditech Co., Ltd., is a Chinese clinical-stage pharmaceutical company focused on urogenital tumors, founded in 2010 and listed on the Shanghai STAR Market since 2021.