


(Records.vn) The collection has 10,000 stamps, divided into 20 sets. Mr. Han Tan Quang - Founder and Editor in Chief of Today Knowledge Magazine is the owner of this record.

Mr. Han Tan Quang with his Stamps Collection
Mr. Han Tan Quang is known as not only a journalist but also a collector. Before that, he was rewarded the certificate for Thach Thien Collection by Vietnam Book of Records. For Stamp Collection, he started to collect stamp more than 40 years ago. He has the passion for searching and recognizing that the stamp is a treasure of knowledge about culture, history...so took great pains with collecting.
So far, he has collected over 10,000 stamps, divided into 20 sets. In particular, the viewer will come to surprised at the weird-looking and material stamp on the 4321 stamps along with postage envelopes. It's called heteromorphic by no having usual shapes like square, rectangle but with the various styles like: trapezium, parallelogram, rhombus, circle.
There are some of stamps were made of special materials such as gold, silver, copper, plastic, steel, ivory, wood, fabric, inlaid stone, sand, covered with gold, enamel, covered salt, attached Jewel; therefore, meteoric dust - inlaid... or stamps with the flavour of roses, chocolate... It's called "Material" Stamp. In addition, there are over 1,000 stamps with special shapes that he called curve-edged, curved-edges block, 3D stamps, Hologram stamp, embossed stamp, stamp printed those numbers sink, embossing stamps, seed stamps... Many of his stamp sets are high appreciated by professional for abundant content, diverse materials, original forms, filled with great values
Some photos of Stamp Collection.



VIETNAM BOOK OF RECORDS - VIETKINGS

(Records.vn) "The largest Buddha statue made of "nu nghien", a rare kind of wood" is the record granted by Asia Book of Records in the 29th Meeting Record Holder in Vietnam. The owner of this record is Mr. Nguyen Xuan Hoa.
A ceremony was held on May 14 in Tra Bong commune, Quang Ngai province, to officially announce the recognition of Tra Bong as a ‘Specialty gift of Asia’ by the Asian Record Organisation.
Le Van Tuan, a musician of traditional music from HCMC, Vietnam, created a music book of CROR music (CROR music is a self invented
music form by the musician himself)
11-year-old boy Bui Ngoc Thinh who was born with blindness but can play many musical instruments such as the drum, the guitar and the organ.
Buddhism Flag is made of many various materials such as fabric, paper, plastic, paper flowers with connected from the colorful lanters ever. Taking the original idea from Vesak Day to make largest Buddhism Flag in Asia by fresh flower. It is an initiative of the monks and nuns at Dai Bi Pagoda (Ninh Binh province)
The new statue of King-Monk Tran Nhan Tong was made monolithic bronze, weighs 139 tonnes and is 10 meters high. It was placed in the An Ky Sinh Square on Yen Tu Mountain, about 1,000m above sea level. Hanoi Construction Fine Art Co., Ltd. executed this statue.


