Amerigo Vespucci () ( March 9, 1454February 22, 1512 ) was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially conjectured from Columbus ' voyages, but instead constituted an entirely separate landmass hitherto unknown to Afro-Eurasians.

Greenpeace East Asia's first China office was opened in Hong Kong in 1997.

** Asia's first professional basketball league, the Philippine Basketball Association, plays its first game at the Araneta Coliseum.

* October 23 – The Philippines ' DZAQ-TV3 ( now ABS-CBN ) makes its initial telecast, becoming Asia's first commercial television broadcaster.

* May 1 – Hong Kong Police Force, the world's second, Asia's first modern police force is established.

Established in 1875, the Bombay Stock Exchange is Asia's first stock exchange

Asia's set included only " An Extraordinary Life " from Phoenix, the rest of the songs coming from the first two albums plus one cover each from The Buggles (" Video Killed the Radio Star " with Wetton on lead vocals and Downes on vocoder ), King Crimson (" The Court of the Crimson King ", which was recorded by a previous incarnation of that band with Greg Lake on lead vocals ) and Emerson, Lake & Palmer (" Fanfare for the Common Man ").

India was one of the first countries in Asia to recognize the effectiveness of the Export Processing Zone ( EPZ ) model in promoting exports, with Asia's first EPZ set up in Kandla in 1965.

She is the first Indian musician to receive the Ramon Magsaysay award, Asia's highest civilian award, in 1974 with the citation reading " Exacting purists acknowledge Srimati M. S. Subbulakshmi as the leading exponent of classical and semi-classical songs in the Karnataka

It is also home to Asia's first bowling alley, which is located on the fourth floor of Parksons department store.

; Sentosa 4D Magix: is Singapore's first and Southeast Asia's original four-dimensional theatre.

Plans by the government for Sentosa aims to establish it as one of the world's most luxurious holiday locations, with a SGD $ 10 billion masterplan for the future involving the construction of private housing at the Sentosa Cove, the aforementioned partial redevelopment of Siloso Beach, and Asia's first tourism academy.

The National Parks Board claims it is Asia's first children's garden.

* The Indian state of Gujarat is planning to host South Asia's first commercial-scale tidal power station.

Not even Japan had modernized at the rate of Joseon, and not with as many projects going on at once, a precursor to modern Korea as one of East Asia's Tigers in rapid development into a first class nation during the 1960s-1980s.

In 1966, the government established the Kaohsiung Export Processing Zone, Asia's first export processing zone, to expand the manufacturing production.

The first two television series were aired with English subtitles on AXN Asia's networks in Southeast Asia and South Asia.

* July 15-Northwest Airlines launches the first commercial passenger service from the U. S. A. to Asia's Far East along the North Pacific route with Douglas DC-4 The Manila, linking Minneapolis / St.

On 15 August 1873, Mindon also enacted the Seventeen Articles, one of Southeast Asia's first indigenous press freedom laws.

* Mohan Meakin Brewery, a large group of companies started with Asia's first brewery, incorporated in 1855

* Driven Together, Historic first crossing of Asia's new Highway to the West

She has also appeared in Sex Guru, the first Philippine-made sex education film and had a monthly column in FHM Philippines re-published entitled Asia's Sex Confidential, where she talks about love, sex and relationships.

CNBC Asia's ticker was also reformatted on that day to include colours reflecting change in the stock prices ( green for an increase and red for a decrease ) and a stock's ticker symbol.

It is Asia's third largest stock exchange in terms of market capitalization behind the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the Shanghai Stock Exchange, and the sixth largest in the world.

Indonesia was until recently Southeast Asia's only member of OPEC, and the 1970s oil price raises provided an export revenue windfall that contributed to sustained high economic growth rates, averaging over 7 % from 1968 to 1981.

Although nationalist movements throughout the colonial world led to the political independence of nearly all of the Asia's remaining colonies, decolonisation was intercepted by the Cold War ; and South East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and East Asia remained embedded in a world economic, financial, and military system in which the great powers compete to extend their influence.

The country remained one of Asia's poorest and was totally dependent on Soviet economic assistance.

It was led by South Asia's pioneer Trotskyist, Philip Gunawardena and his colleague NM Perera.

The 2011 Shaw Prize, often called " Asia's Nobel Prize ," was sharred by Fishman and Italian astronomer Enrico Costa for their gamma-ray research.

In 1999, Watanabe was spotted at a Seoul activity honoring Asia's greatest boxing champions, alongside Fighting Harada, Jung-Koo Chang, Gushiken, Sot Chitalada, and former rivals Chul-Ho Kim and Pooltarat, among others.

The most recent deployment of the GC was to provide additional security for the Singapore Airshow, Asia's largest airshow, and the hunt for the escaped terrorist, Mas Selamat.

One of its milestone commercial projects was Asia's largest IP-enabled network for securities and derivatives markets.

On 7 December 2002, it was reported in the press that ten foreign banks had told the government privately that the introduction of Article 23 would have disastrous consequences for Hong Kong, threatening its demise as Asia's financial capital.

Considered one of the most powerful figures in Asia, Li was named " Asia's Most Powerful Man, Li Ka-Ching " by Asiaweek in 2001.

The space was added to Asia's world map on July 23, 2009.

Chuganji was the last surviving Asian man born before 1894, as his successor as Asia's oldest living man, Kameni Nakamura, was born in late 1894 and was over five and a half years younger than Chuganji.

FEERs annual Asian Innovation Awards was associated with Global Entrepolise @ Singapore, which honored Asia's emerging Technopreneur.

She was placed at number 36 by the UK magazine, Eastern Eye, as one of Asia's Sexiest Women ( 2006 ).

As a result of his hands-on approach to the economy, the Philippines was dubbed by various internationally as Asia's Next Economic Tiger.

On December 9, 2009, it was announced that Friendster was acquired for US $ 26. 4 million by MOL Global, one of Asia's biggest Internet companies.

Within months of the 1991 Paris Agreements, Vietnam established diplomatic and economic relations with Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) member states and also with most countries of Western Europe and Asia's Far East.

Meanwhile, the Communist Chinese established the three-man fireteam concept as the three-man cell when they organized a regular army, and its organization seemed to have been disseminated throughout all of Asia's communist forces, perhaps the most famous of which are the PAVN / NVA ( People's Army of Vietnam / North Vietnamese Army ) and the Viet Cong.

The Tourism Commission was established in May 1999 to promote Hong Kong as Asia's premier international city for all visitors.

Mohan Meakin is a large group of companies started with Asia's first brewery incorporated in 1855 ( but established much earlier ) by Edward Dyer at Kasauli in the Himalayan Mountains in India under the name Dyer Breweries.

Asia's largest cinnamon estate producing cinnamon spice established by Lord Brown of British East India company in the year CE 1767 is located at Anjarakandy in Kannur district

Hongkong Land dates back to 1889 and is one of Asia's longest established property groups.

In 2000 the Aga Khan Trust for Culture established a music initiative with the goal of assisting to preserve Central Asia's musical heritage.

Madurai celebrated city's first LGBTQ Rainbow festival on 29-07-2012, Anjali Gopalan inaugurated Alan Turing Rainbow festival and flag offed the Asia's first Genderqueer pride parade as a part of Turing Rainbow festival organized by Srishti Madurai a literary and resource circle for alternative gender and sexualities it was established by Gopi Shankar a student of The American College, Madurai to eradicate social discrimination faced by the LGBT community, this is the first parade in Asia to highlight 20 other kinds of genders apart from LGBT.

New flowerhorn strains have been developed through breeding programs in the U. S. Although it is hard for the U. S. to compete with Asia's well established flowerhorn breeding farms, strains with unique genetics have been created.