Cambodia won a place in the Guinness Book of World Records on Sunday for a 1,100-metre-long version of the country’s popular krama scarf.
Supported by a youth movement with links to the nation’s ruling party, more than 23,000 people took part in the six-month weaving marathon outside Phnom Penh’s Royal Palace.
Thousands of young people then rolled out the krama along a street in the capital on Sunday for a visiting Guinness official to measure the garment.
“With 1,149.8…
Sex, spas, sleaze: what Orchard Road of Singapore hides in plain sight
It is evening on a sultry Sunday and a meandering crowd of families, tourists and food delivery riders jostle for space on the footpath outside Concorde Hotel. Yet all is still and silent inside the building’s shopping wing, except for two units offering massage and facial services.
In one of them, located beside the security desk, a middle-aged lady wearing a lime green halter top and beige miniskirt performs a series of jumping jacks in full view of passers-by. Her eyes dart…
Snubbed in world’s biggest war game, will Beijing make waves in South China Sea?
The resource-rich Spratly and Paracel archipelagos may be the main sticking points in the South China Sea territorial dispute, and this week the world’s two major powers were shadowboxing over the issue thousands of kilometres away in Beijing and the Western Pacific.
On the Chinese side, the fresh missive came from President Xi Jinping as he warned the visiting US Secretary of Defence James Mattis that while Beijing – a claimant to the contested waters – was committed to peace…