Author: ABR Team

Sias International College and Didi Express of China jointly set a record for making the biggest QR code of human beings in Zhengzhou University, China. They organised a whopping number of 2,520 people in a QR code pattern of the size 51 meters x 51 meters, as confirmed on December 18, 2023.

Deependra Ratna Shakya of Nepal set a record for having the biggest collection of currency notes and coins of the UN member states. He has a whopping collection of notes and coins of the 193 member states of the United Nations (UN), with 2 pieces of notes and 2 pieces of coins from each member country, as confirmed on December 18, 2023.

Angad Bhardwaj (born on April 5, 2010) of India set a record for being the youngest person honoured by the Army Chief of India. He was honoured with the Silver Medal by the Chief of the Army Staff of India, for his services in the high-altitude areas, as confirmed on December 18, 2023.

Dine in the Dark restaurant in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, holds the record for being the first dark dining experience restaurant in Indochina. Opened in 2013, it gives you a chance to experience what it’s like every day for the estimated 144,000 blind people who live in Cambodia. You are guided from beginning to end by the waiters who are visually impaired themselves. By eating there, you help support a restaurant that promotes equal opportunity employment for the blind.

HSMM Fragrance of Laos holds the record for being the first Laos-made perfume brand in Indochina. The perfume brand mainly focuses on products using Agarwood essential oil, which has a deep cultural and religious significance, in addition to the fragrance of Champa flower, the National Flower of Laos. HSMM Fragrance was established in 2014 and has a fragrance factory in Vientiane, their products are exported to the UAE, China, Korea and some Middle East Gulf countries.

Cobra Cave, also known as Tam Ngu Hao 2 cave, located in the Annamite Mountains in Laos, holds the record for being the first cave where the Denisovans’ fossil was found in Indochina. The fossil is a tooth belonging to a girl between 4 and 6 years old, dating from 130,000 years old to 164,000 years old. It is believed to be of Denisovans – the extinct “ghost homo”.

Apopo Visitor Center of Cambodia holds the record for being the first non-profit centre to train mine detection rats in Indochina. It is a global non-profit organization that trains African giant pouched rats (fondly nicknamed ‘HeroRATs’) to save lives by detecting landmines and tuberculosis in economically challenged countries. The organisation has designed and built a demonstration area where the HeroRATs sniff out buried items, scratch at the surface to indicate they’ve found something to trainers and receive a tasty treat as a reward.

The Torp Chey kiln, located at the site of the 12th century Beng Mealea temple near Angkor in Cambodia, holds the record for being the largest undisturbed Angkorian ceramic kiln discovered in Indochina. Found in an undisturbed condition, with its chimney intact, it is the largest kiln site known to exist in all of Southeast Asia, measuring 22 metres in length, 12 metres in width, and divided into 3 main chambers with a most unusual design where brown glaze ceramics were fired.

Talipot palm of Cambodia holds the record for being the palm with the largest inflorescence in Indochina. It is a fan palm with large, palmate leaves up to 5 metres in diameter, with a petiole up to 4 metres, and up to 130 leaflets. It bears the largest inflorescence of any plant, 6-8 metre long, consisting of one to several million small flowers borne on a branched stalk. The talipot palm is monocarpic, flowering only once when it is 30 to 80 years old.

Boremei, the stingray, holds the record for being the largest freshwater stingray ever caught in Cambodia, Indochina. It was caught accidentally on June 13, 2022 after getting caught on the fishing hook of a local fisherman south of Stung Treng, northeastern Cambodia. The female stingray was nearly 4 metres long from snout to tail and weighed slightly under 300 kg. Once tagged, the fish was released back into the Mekong River, as confirmed on February 2, 2024.