Portal:Asia/Did you know

... that some people have asked whether they can pay for their Singapore hotel stay using a travel card?
... that Emi Wong, the Hong Kong YouTuber with the most subscribers, used a carpet sweeper to do lunges and bottles of laundry detergent to do squats?
... that a woman hitchhiked from Indiana to Washington, D.C., to protest the sale of the radio station where she worked?
... that after being ousted by the Southern Transitional Council, the governor of the Socotra Archipelago fled to Oman and continued to govern through WhatsApp?
... that the Cross Temple in Fangshan, Beijing, is the only surviving Nestorian Christian site in China?
... that former Kuwaiti foreign minister Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah interrupted his studies in France to volunteer during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait?
... that military officer Chris Tanasale was selected as the mayor of Ambon, Indonesia, to prevent the alienation of local Christians?
... that Sundari paintings were a popular type of erotic art in 19th-century British India?
... that Rudaki is acknowledged as the founder of New Persian poetry in Iran and the father of Tajik literature in Tajikistan?
... that 30 royal portraits of Korean kings were completely destroyed in a 1954 fire in Busan, South Korea?

Updated: 21:05, 24 April 2025