Egypt, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates are approved for internationalized top-level domain names.

DotAsia plans to release IDN .asia domain registrations in the second half of 2010 to address the pent up demand in Asia for multilingual web addresses.
The timeline for this roll-out is as follows:

Dec 2009: DotAsia will publish first draft of IDN policies
Jan-Feb 2010: Input and feedback from industry expertise and users at [...]