HEADLINE-ASEANEWS | CAMBODIA: Cambodia earns new world record for largest ‘bridal carry’
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CAMBODIA: Cambodia earns new world record for largest ‘bridal carry’
On Friday, 245 men hoisted their partners – wives, girlfriends, sisters or mothers – with one arm under the legs and one behind the back and held the position for a minute to set the mark, certified by Guinness World Records representatives.
“I am so happy, it is my first time to participate in such an event to break a world record for Cambodia,” Sam Khan, 25, told AFP before carrying his wife.
The event drew participants young and old.
“I am so excited,” 50-year-old mother Heng Pov told AFP while being carried by her son.
After setting the record, many of the participants carried on with the hold as part of a competition to win a new car.
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Memento Maxima Digital MarketingMYANMAR: KIA and allies seize three large Myanmar army bases near Laiza
There were also reports of junta artillery shells fired at the KIA headquarters landing on the Chinese side of the border
The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) says it has captured three major army bases and more than 10 smaller camps since the start of a new offensive against Myanmar’s military near the country’s border with China.
The group and its allies have been carrying out coordinated attacks on junta targets along the road from the Kachin State capital Myitkyina to the town of Bhamo, some 120 miles to the south, since early Thursday morning.
The road lies just west of Laiza, a town on the Myanmar-China border that serves as the KIA’s main base of operations. The Arakan Army (AA), an allied group, is also headquartered there.
The AA and a number of other organisations, including the People’s Defence Force formed by the shadow. . .
SINGAPORE: Record $8.1m raised in Gaza fund-raiser by S’pore charity; sum dispensed to UNRWA
SINGAPORE – A fund-raiser to provide aid for communities in Gaza raised over $8.1 million just slightly under a month after it was launched in Oct 2023.
The sum of $8,114,422, collected from Oct 19 to Nov 17, is the highest raised by the Rahmatan Lil Alamin (Blessings to all) Foundation, or RLAF.
Minister for Social and Family Development Masagos Zulkifli said at the sidelines of an event at the Assyafaah Mosque on March 9 that the sum has been dispensed to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or UNRWA.
