Author: Asia Book of Records Team

Aug 29, 2022, 02:03 PM EDT SAN DIEGO (AP) — A member of the San Diego Zoo’s African penguin colony has been fitted with orthopedic footwear to help it deal with a degenerative foot condition. The 4-year-old penguin named Lucas has lesions on his feet due to a chronic condition known as bumblefoot, which covers a range of avian foot problems, the San Diego Wildlife Alliance said Monday in a press release. If left untreated, bumblefoot could lead to sepsis and death by infection. The zoo’s wildlife care specialists turned to an organization called Thera-Paw, which creates rehabilitative and assistive…

By Ben Hooper Sept. 2 (UPI) — Police in Texas captured an alligator found lurking next to an ATM and hissing at customers making withdrawals. The Lake Worth Police Department said in a Facebook post that a woman who used the ATM reported hearing a “hissing” sound while withdrawing money, and officers arrived to find a 3 1/2-foot alligator lurking next to the machine. A Texas Parks and Wildlife game warden was summoned to the scene and helped the officers subdue the alligator. The gator was relocated “to an appropriate habitat nearby.” Source- https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/09/02/Lake-Worth-Texas-alligator-ATM/7941662141156/

Hang Son Doong (‘cave of the mountain river’ or ‘mountain cave of Doong ), also known as Son Doong cave is a solutional cave in PhongNha-Ke Bang National Park, Bo Trach District, QuangBinh Province, Vietnam. As in 2009, it had the largest known cave passage cross-section in the world. Less people have seen the inside of Hang Son Doong than have stood on the summit of Mount Everest. It measures 200 m (655ft) in height, 150 m (490ft) in width and at least 6.5 km (4 miles) in length.

HoaBinh Limited Company, Vietnam set a record for creating the world’s highest and largest 24K gold infinity swimming pool in Danang Golden Bay, Danang city, Vietnam on October 1, 2017.The 24K gold infinity swimming pool, which measures 68 m × 1.4 m ×1.2 m, is placed on the top floor of Danang Golden Bay in Danang city, Vietnam.

The lineage of Lam TeChanh Tong of PhuocQuang Pagoda sincerely affirmed the grace of initiating the statue of Wealth God and Earth God with the wish to arouse gratitude and pride of traditional roots, culture, folk beliefs left by our ancients. The measurement of Wealth God Statue is the same as Earth God Statue. They were made of concrete and measured 12 m in height and 6 m in width, 50 tons in weight. The statues were built and completed in 6 months by 20 people. The statues of Wealth God and Earth God were placed solemnly at the 2nd…

Cu Chi tunnel, located about 70 km to the northwest of HCMC, set a record for being among the top 100 most attractive destinations in the world. With its victory scale, Cu Chi tunnel went into the history of heroic struggle of the Vietnamese as a legend of the 20th century and became famous in the world. This is a unique and incomparable wonder with 250 km tunnel spreading like cobwebs underground, with the completion of works associated with the tunnels such as trenches, docks, fighting places, tunnels for eating, sleeping, meetings, activities, military, food storage, water wells and Hoang…

VietJet Aviation Joint Stock Company, trading as VietJet Air or Vietjet, an international low-cost airline from Vietnam, set a record for creating the golden model of airplane to honour their brand. The model of airplane was carved and embrossed with gold and some of its parts were carved with diamond. The model measures 44.5 cm in length, 34.1 cm in wingspan and 12.1 cm in height (from body to tip of the tail).

Om Yoga and Wellness Hub Centre set a record for fulfilling Sun Salutation Yoga works for the longest duration of 60 hours. Although the Sun Salutation Yoga is not so complicated but maintaining the groups work in 60 hours is not simple; it requires the concentration, elasticity of the body of all the members in the group. On June 19, 2016, on the occasion of the 2nd World Yoga Day, Om Yoga and Wellness Hub Centre engaged the Walk Yoga Program to motivate the community to practise yoga in order to enhance the health and repel the sicknesses.

The “Downy Baby Gentle Marathon” event organized by Downy brand of Procter & Gamble Vietnam Co.Ltd in Tiniworld – Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam set a record for the maximum number of babies from 6 to 16 months old participating in crawling. A total of 921 babies from 6 months to 16 months participated in crawling on March 27, 2016.

Kiaan Ogra (born on March 14, 2018) of Karnataka, India set a record for being the fastest to identify 100 famous personalities. He identified 100 famous Indian personalities including Narendra Modi, PV Sindhu, Roger Federer, Amitabh Bachchan, Mark Zuckerberg, Joe Biden, Elon Musk, in 3 minutes and 43 seconds at the age of 4 years, 2 months and 20 days, as confirmed on June 3, 2022.