The Asian Currency Unit ( ACU ) is a proposed weighted index of currencies for ASEAN + 3.

The Asian Currency Unit's purpose is to help stabilize the region's financial markets.

* Asian Currency Unit, a proposed unit of Association of Southeast Asian Nations currency

Former Vice Minister Eisuke Sakakibara was known as " Mr Yen ", whereas his successors Haruhiko Kuroda and Zembei Mizoguchi were often referred to as " Mr Asian Currency " and " Mr Dollar ", respectively.

* Asian Currency Unit ( ACU )

This group consists of representatives from a variety of FBI subprograms ( i. e. Economic Crimes Unit, Money Laundering Unit, LCN / Organized Crime Unit, Asian Organized Crime Unit, Public Corruption / Government Fraud Unit, Cryptographic Racketeering Analysis Unit, and Indian Country Special Jurisdiction Unit ) and other federal agencies, which include Department of Interior Office of Inspector General ( DOI-OIG ), NIGC, Internal Revenue Service Tribal Government Section ( IRS-TGS ), Department of Treasure Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ( FINCEN ), Department of Justice ( DOJ ), and Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Law Enforcement Services ( BIA-OLES ).

* SaGa ( Unit ), Asian Dance rock unit

* The Asian Auschwitz of Unit 731 by Shane Green ( 2002 ), The Age.

Merrill ’ s Marauders ( named after Frank Merrill ) or Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit ( Provisional ), was a United States Army long range penetration special operations unit in the South-East Asian Theater of World War II which fought in the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations, or CBI.

NYPD Lieutenant Nick Chen ( Yun-Fat ) is head of the Asian Gang Unit.

Danny lied to Chen and the Asian Gang Unit by claiming that he took the job as a means to gain his Detective shield the fastest.

Henry then discusses the potential value of having another cop in the Asian Gang Unit on the Tong payroll, which Uncle Benny allows.

Formerly the Asian Gang Unit of the Metro Toronto Police was responsible for dealing with triad related matters, but a larger unit was created to deal with the broader array of ethnic gangs in the city.

During the late 70's and 1980s Network East ( An Asian Unit Programme ) was produced both in Studio A and B providing both music and interviews for the Asian community in the Midlands.

* Asian Monetary Unit

It includes, Audiology, Centre for Asian Health, Research and Evaluation, Centre for Health Services Research and Policy, Clinical Trials Research Unit, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, General Practice and Primary Health Care, Goodfellow unit, Health Research Methods Advisory Service, Health systems, Injury prevention research centre, Immunisation Advisory Centre, Pacific Health, Primary care, Social & Community health, Survey Research Unit, Te Kupenga Hauora Māori, and the Tōmaiora Māori Health Research Group

It is not discernibly related to other North American or northeast Asian indigenous languages, although some have proposed that it is related to Uralic languages such as Finnish and Saami in the proposed Uralo-Siberian grouping, or even Indo-European languages as part of the hypothetical Nostratic superphylum.

Korus proposed adding Asian elements to the building in order to attract investment and interest from the city's influential Korean population and foreign investment.

A 2006 review of Asian nuthatches suggested that there are still unresolved problems in nuthatch taxonomy and proposed splitting the genus Sitta.

As the world undergoes increasingly extreme and erratic weather, a variety of international bodies, especially the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, which has been particularly hard-hit by tropical storms, have proposed projects to use their vast computing resources to attempt to intervene, utilising chaotic effects to their advantage, in global weather patterns with such precision as to minimise weather-related destruction while also minimising the scale of the efforts necessary to do so.

The ACU as it is proposed is a currency basket and not a real currency, i. e., a weighted index of East Asian currencies that will function as a benchmark for regional currency movements.

In 2009 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin proposed restart of competition but this time between Russia, China and Central Asian countries which are mostly members of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.

In 2006 Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla linked the concepts of Asian values with the proposed East Asian Free Trade Agreement and East Asian Community arising from the East Asia Summit.

Two races, Central Asian P. r. centralasica and P. r. theresae in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, have been proposed, but the slight differences in size and colour show no consistent geographical pattern.

Many endemic Mascarene birds are derived from South Asian ancestors, including the Dodo, and it has been proposed that it is true for the parrots as well.

The Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline ( also known as Turkmenistan – Afghanistan – Pakistan – India Pipeline, TAP or TAPI ) is a proposed natural gas pipeline being developed by the Asian Development Bank.

For security reasons, the Asian Development Bank had proposed alternative routes in Afghanistan.

John Clements, Director of the Historical Armed Combat Association proposed in a foreword to a 2000 edition of the 1467 Talhoffer Fechtbuch that modern use of the term ' martial arts ' is incorrectly associated primarily with Asian practices, and that Talhoffer's work exemplified ' hundreds ' of similar fighting manuals in Medieval Europe that ' present to us a portrait of highly developed and innovative European martial arts based on sophisticated, systematic and effective skills.

The only languages which are predominantly found in Europe, North Asia and South Asia and are not part of the language families above are the Basque language spoken in Northern Spain and Southwestern France, the three living language families of the Caucasus mountains ( Northwest Caucasian, Northeast Caucasian and South Caucasian, with the first two sometimes proposed as members of a single North Caucasian language family ), the Paleosiberian languages ( the Yukaghir languages of Central Siberia ( viewed by some linguists as a divergent branch of the Uralic languages ), and the Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages of Eastern Siberia, a grouping which sometimes includes the geographically adjacent Nivkh language, although it is sometimes treated as a language isolate, and Yenesian ), and a few South Asian linguistic isolates, such as Burushaski, spoken mostly in isolated pockets of Northern Pakistan, and the two indigenous language families of the Andamanese people ( Great Andamanese and Ongan ), and perhaps Nihali ( spoken in West Central India ).

Scientists have proposed that Asian black bears are either a surviving, albeit modified, form of Ursus etruscus, specifically the early, small variety of the middle Villafranchian or a larger form of Ursus minimus, an extinct species that arose four million years ago.

**** Subspecies Elephas maximus borneensis ( Borneo Elephant or Asian Pygmy Elephant ) — proposed but not yet recognized as valid ;

Experts on Asian birds, Nigel Collar and John Pilgrim, in 2008 analysed Rasmussen and Anderton's proposed changes, indicating which had previously been proposed by other authors, and which were novel, and required further justification.

In Vientiane, the royal Laotian government decided today to ask its `` friends and neighbors '' for help in fighting what it called a new rebel offensive threatening the southeast Asian kingdom.

His interest in the formal study of religion waned when he was sixteen and he substituted for it an interest in Asian affairs.

Although he still didn't speak to anyone, he grew fond of saying, `` The future lies in Asia '', when the opportunity arose, and when he graduated from high school his parents sent him to New York to give him a foundation, they said, for his life in Asian studies.

The term alphasyllabary was suggested for the Indic scripts in 1997 by William Bright, following South Asian linguistic usage, to convey the idea that " they share features of both alphabet and syllabary ".

The abalone meat from South Africa is prohibited for sale in the country to help reduce poaching ; however, much of the illegally harvested meat is sold in Asian countries.

Members of the southeast Asian planthopper genus Ancyra are well known for having a pair of prolonged filaments at the tips of the forewings that arise near a pair of small glossy spots ; this creates the impression of a pair of antennae, with corresponding " eyes " ( a remarkable case of automimicry ).

There was also perhaps a feeling that establishing long-term security for the Asian Greeks would prove impossible.

* Afghanistan and the Search for Unity Article on Durrani methods of government, published in Asian Affairs, Volume 38, Issue 2, 2007, pp. 145 – 157.

Brunei's leaders are concerned that steadily increased integration in the world economy will undermine internal social cohesion although it has taken steps to become a more prominent player by serving as chairman for the 2000 APEC ( Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation ) forum.

It is an important refuge for many endemic forest species, including the Asian Elephant, the Sumatran Rhinoceros, the Bornean Clouded Leopard, the Hose's Civet and the Dayak Fruit Bat.

Similarly, frets on earlier balalaikas were made of animal gut and tied to the neck so that they could be moved around by the player at will ( as is the case with the modern saz, which allows for the microtonal playing distinctive to Turkish and Central Asian music ).

In some European Union and Asian countries, there are two separate boards, an executive board for day-to-day business and a supervisory board ( elected by the shareholders ) for supervising the executive board.

While most species of North American red oak are unsuitable for construction of bokken, there are some Asian species of red oak that have a significantly tighter grain and will be able to withstand repeated impacts.

The need to support more writing systems for different languages, including the CJK family of East Asian scripts, required support for a far larger number of characters and demanded a systematic approach to character encoding rather than the previous ad hoc approaches.

Columbus, who was searching for a route to India, believed the island to be a peninsula of the Asian mainland.

In some European Union, and in some Asian countries, there are two separate boards, one executive board for the day-to-day business and one supervisory board for control purposes ( elected by the shareholders ).

Several maritime Asian nations sent envoys with tribute for the Chinese emperor.

* NSW Council for Civil Liberties: an Australian organisation opposed to the Death Penalty in the Asian region

Asian mail was typically lighter than the European variety and sometimes had prayer symbols stamped on the rings as a sign of their craftsmanship as well as for divine protection.

Emperor Wu of Han ( r. 141 BC-87 BC ) went to war with the Dayuan for this reason, since the Dayuan were hording a massive amount of tall, strong, Central Asian bred horses in the Hellenized – Greek region of Fergana ( established slightly earlier by Alexander the Great ).