Portal:Asia/Did you know/3


 * ...that Murasaki Shikibu is a Japanese author who wrote The Tale of Genji, one of the earliest known novels in history?
 * ...that the Siege of Kut in present-day Iraq resulted in a decisive victory for the Ottoman Empire against the British?
 * ...that the Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES) and the Singapore International Monetary Exchange (SIMEX) merged together in 1999 to form the Singapore Exchange (SGX)?
 * ...that Ismail I was the founder of the Safavid dynasty?
 * ...that the Charyapadas, Buddhist poems from eastern India, were discovered by Harprashad Sastri at the Nepal Royal Court Library in 1907?