With less than a week to go for her next release Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal, Bipasha Basu is making news for all the right reasons. The Bong babe has been named as the sexiest Asian woman by the British newspaper, Eastern Eye.

Incidentally, this is the second time that Bipasha has claimed the top honour, the last time being in 2005. She missed out last year to another beauty queen Priyanka Chopra, who happens to be the second runner-up for this year.

The poll was based on a public voting system where people decide as to who they think is the sexiest Asian woman from a list of 100 names published in the Eastern Eye newspaper and also on its website.

Besides Bipasha, other prominent Bollywood actresses who made it to the Top 10 of the elite list this year included Aishwarya Rai, Madhuri Dixit, Shilpa Shetty, Katrina Kaif, Kareena Kapoor and Lara Dutta.