Kabaddi ( sometimes transliterated Kabbadi or Kabadi ; Punjabi: ਕਬ ੱ ਡ ੀ, Marathi: कबड ् ड ी, Hindi: कबड ् ड ी, ,,,,,, Malayalam: കബഡ ി) is a South Asian team sport.

The Asian Kabaddi Federation was founded under the chairmanship of Mr. Janardan Singh Gehlot.

The Asian Amateur Kabaddi Federation sent Prof. Sundar Ram of India to tour Japan for two months to introduce the game.

The Asian Kabaddi Championship was arranged in 1980 and India emerged as champion and Bangladesh runner-up.

Bangladesh became runner-up again in 1985 in the Asian Kabaddi Championship held in Jaipur, India.

In the 1998 Asian games held at Bangkok ( Thailand ) Indian Kabaddi team reigned supreme and clinched the gold medal.

The Asian Kabaddi Federation was founded under the chairmanship of Sharad Pawar.

The Governing body of Kabaddi in Asia is Asian Kabaddi Federation ( AKF ) headed by Mr. Janardan Singh Gehlot.

Bangladesh became runners-up again in 1985 in Asian Kabaddi Championship held in Jaipur, India.

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.

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

In 1980, Bangladesh became the runners-up in the first Asian Kabaddi Championship and India emerged as the champion.

Bangladesh became runners-up again in the next Asian Kabaddi Championship held in 1985 at Jaipur, India.

In subsequent years, international Test cricket has generally been organised as bilateral series: a multilateral Test tournament was not organised again until the quadrangular Asian Test Championship in 1999.

These are the European Championship ( UEFA ), the Copa América ( CONMEBOL ), African Cup of Nations ( CAF ), the Asian Cup ( AFC ), the CONCACAF Gold Cup ( CONCACAF ) and the OFC Nations Cup ( OFC ).

* Asian Touring Car Championship ( 2000 – 2002, 2005-still )

GT2 is used by the American Le Mans Series, European Le Mans Series, FIA World Endurance Championship, Asian Le Mans Series, and the International GT Open.

He was strongly criticized by the DPP for not allowing the ROC national flag to be flown along with a PRC flag during Asian Women's Football Championship held in Taipei.

Other sponsorships of sports-related events include FIVB Women's Club World Championship, Tour de Langkawi, São Paulo Indy 300, Osasco Voleibol Clube, Mentor Nestle Nesquik Cup, Southeast Asian Games, Sukma Games, Sultan Azlan Shah Cup and Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

On 11 February 2012 debuted for the Asian ONE Fighting Championship promotion.

* Asian Amateur Championship, a golf tournament

However, since the Summer Olympic Games and the European Football Championship were also scheduled in the same year as the Asian Cup ( 2004, 2008, 2012 etc.

In the first match of the Asian Test Championship later that year, Laxman scored 67 against Pakistan, but failed to score consistently, before getting dropped.

United Asian Debating Championship is the biggest debating tournament in Asia, where teams from the Middle East to Japan come to debate.

; 2000 – 01 Asian Club Championship

Advani made his debut at the Asian Billiards Championship 2002, held at Bangalore where he finished as a finalist.

Pankaj Advani also remains the only person to have won all 5 Billiards tournaments in a season, a feat he achieved by winning the Junior National Championship, Senior National Championship, Asian Billiards Championship, World Billiards Championship ( point format ) and World Billiards Championship ( time format ).

In April 2012, Advani won the Asian Billiards Championship in Goa, India to become the first person in the history of the sport to win 5 Asian Titles.

But why was Laos the new Southeast Asian battleground??

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

Richard was a solitary student in New York and acquired, in his remoteness, a thorough if bookish knowledge of Asian lore, literature, life, politics and history.

However, following the establishment of the Republic of Turkey, Anatolia was defined by the Turkish government as being effectively co-terminous with Asian Turkey.

Posthumously, he was named " Asian of the Century " in the " Arts, Literature, and Culture " category by AsianWeek magazine and CNN, cited as " one of the people who contributed most to the betterment of Asia in the past 100 years ".

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 Franciscan missionary, William of Rubruck, in his work on Asian customs, declares that everything he had heard from Andrew on the subject was fully borne out by his own personal observations.

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

Between June and August 2007, the first east-west crossing of the full new Asian Highway was achieved by Britons Richard Meredith and Phil Colley driving a V8 Vantage.

The first South Asian a cappella group was Penn Masala, founded in 1996 at the University of Pennsylvania.

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

The racial makeup of the city was 98. 10 % White, 0. 46 % Black or African American, 0. 08 % Native American, 0. 11 % Asian, 0. 02 % Pacific Islander, 0. 43 % from other races, and 0. 80 % from two or more races.

Brunei recognised Bangladesh quickly with other Southeast Asian countries and Bangladesh established residential Diplomatic mission in 1985, although it was closed down from 1988 to 1997 due to financial constraints.

In 1400, the Central Asian warlord Timur had succeeded in rousing the local Turkic beyliks that had been vassals of the Ottomans to join him in his attack on Bayezid, who was considered one of the most powerful rulers in the Muslim world during that period.

The racial makeup of the town was 93. 98 % White, 3. 42 % Black or African American, 0. 30 % Native American, 1. 19 % Asian, 0. 05 % Pacific Islander, 0. 46 % from other races, and 0. 60 % from two or more races.

In the nineteenth century, the balalaika evolved into a triangular instrument with a neck that was substantially shorter than that of its Asian counterparts.

The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 75 % White, 17. 93 % Asian, 0. 04 % Pacific Islander, 2. 97 % African American, 0. 06 % Native American, 1. 58 % from other races, and 2. 42 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of Berkeley was 66, 996 ( 59. 5 %) White, 11, 241 ( 10. 0 %) Black or African American, 479 ( 0. 4 %) Native American, 21, 690 ( 19. 3 %) Asian ( 8. 4 % Chinese, 2. 4 % Indian, 2. 1 % Korean, 1. 6 % Japanese, 1. 5 % Filipino, 1. 0 % Vietnamese, 0. 3 % Pakistani, 0. 3 % Thai, 0. 2 % Nepalese ), 186 ( 0. 2 %) Pacific Islander, 4, 994 ( 4. 4 %) from other races, and 6, 994 ( 6. 2 %) from two or more races.

The manufacturer also hoped to increase exports ( Unilever UK & Ireland Export ) to Asian countries such as Malaysia, a primarily Muslim country where the government was becoming restrictive regarding non-halal meat.

In August 1511 on behalf of the king of Portugal, Afonso de Albuquerque conquered Malacca, which at the time was the hub of Asian trade.

Growth in real GDP averaged 8 % from 1991 – 1997, but fell to half that level in 1998 because of tight monetary policies ( implemented to keep the current account deficit in check ) and because of lower export earnings, the latter which was a product of the Asian financial crisis.

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

Cannibalism was reported by the journalist Neil Davis during the South East Asian wars of the 1960s and 1970s.

The racial makeup of the city was 66. 60 % White, 11. 70 % Black or African American, 0. 20 % Native American, 15. 10 % Asian, 0. 01 % Pacific Islander, 2. 10 % from other races, and 4. 30 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the city was 91. 8 % White, 2. 2 % Black or African American, 0. 3 % Native American, 3. 4 % Asian, 0. 0 % Pacific Islander, 0. 4 % from some other race, and 1. 8 % from two or more races.