Author: Asia Book of Records Team

A total of 3,966  people danced with hula hoops simultaneously for seven minutes, at an event organized by the Public Health Ministry’s Department of Health, on February 12, 2013, at an open-air stadium at Thammasat University. Initially there were 4,483 participants in the attempt, but out of them a total of 517 contestants dropped off after they failed to keep their hoops up. The event was organised to create awareness among t e Thais.

Stuntwoman Jin Linlin (23) from China, spun a total of 305 hula hoops at once for 22 seconds, at a shopping mall. She broke her own record of dancing with 300 hula hoops which was done in the year 2008. She has been playing hoops for 12 years.

Sazae-san, a Japanese comic strip, which was started in October 1969 by Fuji Television (Japan) is the longest-running animated and non-soap opera scripted TV series.  It is broadcasted every Sunday from 6:30 to 7:00 p.m. and contains three vignettes. Sazae-san was created by Machiko Hasegawa.

Sarwan Singh, the head priest of Surrey’s Guru Nanak Sikh temple, has the longest beard. Singh’s beard was measured at 2.36 meter (7.7 3/4 ft). The previous record was held by Shamsher Singh of Punjab, India, with beard last measuring 1.83 meter in 1977.

Zhuang Huagui (26), from China, held a special wedding ceremony at the funeral of his fiancée Hu Zhao(21), on February 4, 2010. The couple originally planned to get married on February 4, 2010, but on January 28, 2010 (one week before their wedding), the girl was stabbed to death by two break-in thieves.

Shubhangi Apte (born on April 25, 1955) from Raipur, India, has created the smallest functional pair of golden scissors having dimension 3cm X 1cm and weighing 3.35 gm.

A total of 60,000 people in the audience did the horse riding dance from the song ‘Oppan Gangnam Style’ with Park Jae-sang (popularly known by his stage name PSY)  during his performance of ‘Gangnam Style’, at a free concert named ‘International Singer Psy, Seoul Style Concert’ in Seoul, on October 4, 2012, at the Seoul City Hall Square. Psy’s concert was broadcasted live though his official YouTube channel worldwide.

This drum made in Yeongdong, South Korea, weighs over 7 tns and has a 6.4 m diameter. It was completed on July 27, 2011.

A total of 2,012 people, including Taichung Mayor Jason Hu, gathered to form an image of a person raising his arms in the form of a ‘V’ sign, on October 15, 2012, in Taichung, central Taiwan. The ‘V’ shape was the motive of a campaign called ‘I Love Taiwan’ initiated by Shaun Bettinson, an English teacher from Britain.

She Ping of China, donned a 33.1 kilograms of  “beesuit” which consisted of about 3,31,000 bees, in Chongqing Municipality, April 18, 2012.