At the 2008 Olympics, Vijender Singh Beniwal won a middleweight ( 75 kg ) bronze medal and Vikas Krishan Yadav boxer from Bhiwani district won a gold medal in the 2010 Asian Games in the Lightweight category.

The game was included for the first time in the Asian Games in Beijing in 1990.

India won the gold medal and has also won gold at the following six Asian Games in Hiroshima in 1994, Bangkok in 1998, Busan in 2002, Doha in 2006 and Guangzhou in 2010.

The game was included for the first time in Asian Games held in Beijing in 1990.

India won the gold medal and has since won gold at the following three Asian Games in Hiroshima in 1994, Bangkok in 1998, Busan in 2002, and in Doha 2006.

Women's Kabaddi was first introduced in 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games.

The following national teams played in 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games.

The 1986 Asian Games were held successfully, and the bid for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul was successful as well.

Since 2000, taekwondo has been one of only two Asian martial arts ( the other being judo ) that are included in the Olympic Games ; it became a demonstration event starting with the 1988 games in Seoul, and became an official medal event starting with the 2000 games in Sydney.

* Asian Games

* South East Asian Games

* South Asian Games

* Asian Para Games

* Asian Winter Games

The Games are described as the third largest multi-sport event in the world after the Olympic Games and the Asian Games.

* regional, such as the East Asian Games and the South American Games

* Asian Games, held first in 1951, for all Asian nations

* Southeast Asian Games, held first in 1959, for nations in Southeast Asia

* East Asian Games, for nations in East Asia

* West Asian Games, for nations in West Asia

* Central Asian Games, for nations in Central Asia

The first co-ed south Asian a cappella was Anokha, from the University of Maryland, formed in 2001.

In 1978, the Asian Amateur Kabaddi Federation was formed at a conference of delegates from Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan in the Indian town of Villai.

In Iran, the Community of Kabaddi was formed in 1996, in same year they joined the Asian Kabaddi Federation and in 2001 they joined the International Kabaddi Federation.

New trade agreements are being formed and foreign investors are keeping a close eye on the " Asian Wolf ".

Their social structure was probably the same as that of African and Asian elephants, with females living in herds headed by a matriarch, whilst bulls lived solitary lives or formed loose groups after sexual maturity.

According to plate reconstructions, the island is believed to have been formed by the collision of terranes from the Asian Plate ( forming the west and southwest ), from the Australian Plate ( forming the southeast and Banggai ), and from island arcs previously in the Pacific ( forming the north and east peninsulas ).

The admixture may be the result of a continuous gene flow from populations of European and Asian descent, or may be formed by a single event of admixture during a short period of time ( the hybrid isolation model ).

It is a founding member of and remains involved in the Central Asian Union, formed with Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, joined in March 1998 by Tajikstan.

It is a founding member of and remains involved in the Central Asian Union, formed with Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, joined in March 1998 by Tajikstan.

* May 8 – Asian Football Confederation ( AFC ) was formed in Manila, Philippines.

A recently formed alliance, the South-East Asian Tourism Organisation ( SEATO ), is bringing together these diverse players to allay resource management concerns.

In 1985, the World Council of YMCAs passed a resolution against apartheid, and anti-apartheid campaigns were formed under the leadership of Mr. Lee Soo-Min ( Korea ), the first Asian Secretary General of the World Alliance.

ASEAN ( ), the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, is a geo-political and economic organization of 10 countries located in Southeast Asia, which was formed on August 8, 1967 by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand as a display of solidarity against communist expansion in Vietnam and insurgency within their own borders.

Approximately 14, 000 years ago, mainland Australia was linked to both New Guinea and Tasmania ; the British Isles formed an extension of continental Europe via the dry beds of the English Channel and North Sea ; and the dry basin of the South China Sea linked Sumatra, Java and Borneo to the Asian mainland.

* Asian Cricket Council formed.

* The Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan, that was formed in the former Soviet Union and now operates across Central Asian states with the aim of forming Islamic States governed by Sharia.

Some elaborate South Asian turbans may be permanently formed and sewn to a foundation.

Eskimo Curlew formed a species pair with the Asian Little Curlew, Numenius minutus, but is slightly larger, longer-winged, shorter legged and warmer in plumage tone than its Asian relative.

The coolies were put in the same neighborhoods as African Americans, and since most were unable to return to their homeland or have their wives come to the New World, many married African American women, and formed some of the modern world's Afro-Asian and Asian Latin American population.

The Society for Asian Art, incorporated in 1958, was the group that formed specifically to gain Avery Brundage's collection.

Citing the growing danger of a nuclear arms race between India and Pakistan, Thomas L. Hughes formed an eighteen-member Task Force on Non-Proliferation and South Asian Security to propose methods for reducing the growing nuclear tensions on the subcontinent.

By the mid-1970s the demand among the relatively large Asian populations of many major British cities for familiar live music to entertain at weddings and other cultural occasions led to a flourishing Asian dance band scene, particularly Bhangra from the Punjab which supported bands like Alaap, formed in Southhall in London and Bhujhungy Group from Birmingham.