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Largest Lantern Wall
Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital is a 108-year-old charitable healthcare organisation, committed to looking after the sick and needy. It celebrated the lantern festival on 7 Sep 2019 by hanging strings of paper lanterns along the corridor of one of its conserved buildings. Excluding the space taken up by the pillars, the lantern wall was 28.5m long and 1.9m high. The lanterns ... Read More »
First Women’s Mass IPPT
Great Eastern organised the first all-women’s Individual Physical Proficiency Test (IPPT) on 24 August at the Singapore Sports Hub. Together with its annual women’s run, it aims to give women a better understand of their fitness levels as part of its campaign ‘Plan Like A Woman, Plan For The Long Run‘. 551 women took part in the IPPT which covered ... Read More »
Largest Dragon Boat Tug-Of-War Competition
40 teams with a total of 260 paddlers took part in the tug-of-war competition by rowing rather than pulling. At SAFRA’s Dragon Battle, 2 teams of 6 paddlers each rowed a single dragon boat in opposite directions to determine the stronger of that round. The competition was held in the swimming pool of SAFRA Toa Payoh on 31 Aug 2019. Read More »
Fastest Sit-To-Stand Counts In One Minute
There are about 7,000 people on dialysis in Singapore and the National Kidney Foundation organises education programmes regularly urging people to exercise and eat healthily. At the roadshow in Our Tampines Hub on 24-25 Aug 2019, the public was invited to do sit-to-stand exercises. On the second day it achieved a total of 50,830 counts in the 8-hr period. Li ... Read More »
Longest Marathon For A Radio Dual Jock Show
Radio Masti 24×7 Live is Singapore’s only Hindi (Bollywood) digital radio station. To celebrate its 10th anniversary, the station’s founder, Renuka Arora Bhagat and its chief jockey Antara Roy Sen, took on the challenge to do a jock show for 36 hours from 22 to 23 Aug 2019. Music and other pre-recorded materials were not to exceed 23 mins per hour ... Read More »
