Author: Asia Book of Records Team

Pawan Sharma (born on January 8, 1977) of Gujarat, India, made the smallest electric heater which is 15mm tall and 30mm wide, on September 20, 2012.

Gangte Christian Gospel Centenary Committee, Manipur, India, organized a mass Bible reading event in which a total of 7,047 participants from Gangte tribe of Manipur, read the book of Romans (chapter 1-16) from the holy Bible continuously in the standing position, from 1:26 pm to 2:53 pm, on December 16, 2012, at Chiengkonpang, Churachandpur, Manipur (India).

Rakesh Vaid (born on September 7, 1953) of New Delhi, India, has a collection of a total of 7,777 key rings, as on May 9, 2013. Some of the key rings are self created by Rakesh.

Jiroemon Kimura ( born in April 19, 1897) from Japan, is the last known man to live across three centuries. He is one of only 12 people alive today who were born in the 1890s, and the only man living to have been born in that decade.

Samat Hasan, a 24-year-old stuntman from Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, walked on a tightrope in Zhangjiajie, Hunan province, on April 25, 2009. Walking on a 700-m long (2,300 ft) rope with a 3.1-cm (1.2 in) diameter and set at a 39-degree gradient, Hasan successfully performed the aerial tightrope walking after failing in a previous attempt in October 2008.

  Jin Songhao from China, spent a total of 2 hours and 20 minutes in direct contact with ice, on the Tianmen Mountain, on January 3, 2011,  in Zhangjiajie, China. He was competing with Chen Kecai (from China) who also took part in the cold endurance competition.

Twin brothers Eash Goyal and Eashan Goyal (Born August 24, 1997) of Chandigarh, Punjab, are the youngest brothers to play western classical music. Eashan plays Western classical Guitar and Eash plays western classical piano and they have passed advanced 6th grade level according to the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music, London in November, 2011.

The music video of ‘Gentleman’ by the South Korean rapper PSY, got around 52 million hits on April 20, 2013. The video was posted at 9.00 pm (1200 GMT) on YouTube and broke the previous record for single-day views of 8 million by Justin Bieber’s Boyfriend video in May 2012. PSY released his single ‘Gentleman’ in 119 countries on April 19, 2013. The choreography for Gentleman, including the ‘arrogant dance’ was unveiled at a concert in Seoul on April 20, 2013 before more than 50,000 fans.

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.