Author: Asia Book of Records Team

A total of 30,365 participants from the University of the Philippines made the largest human rainbow, on September 18, 2004, at the Qurino Grandstand, Rizal Park, Manila, Philippines.

Ilker Yilmaz of Turkey performed milk squirting from his eye to a distance of 279.5 cm (9 ft, 2 in) at the Armada Hotel in Istanbul, Turkey, on September 1, 2004.

Snake charmer Khum Chaibuddee (Thailand) kissed 19 cobras consecutively, on October 7, 2006, in Pattaya, Thailand.

People’s Government of Kaifeng City (China) made a carpet measuring 2,011 metre in width by using a total of 22,110 potted chrysanthemums flowers. The carpet was exhibited at the 29th Kaifeng Chrysanthemum Festival, on 18 October 2011, at Henan Province, China.

Amit Bhargava (born on June 11, 1978) of Delhi, India, is the first and the youngest in Asia to have attained the 5th Dan Black Belt in Hupkwondo (a type of martial arts).

Yingyu Wang (China) has a collection of 2,345 different dictionaries, as on  August 3, 2010. He has been collecting these dictionaries since 1970s.

Lu Chao (China) memorized a total of 67,890 digits of pi in 24 hours and 4 minutes, at the Northwest A&F University, China, on November 20, 2005. He successfully recited the digits with an error at the 67,891st digit, saying it was a “5”, when it was actually a “0”. He says it took him about 1 year to memorize 100,000 digits.

Silicon Andhra (India) organized the largest Kuchipudi dance during the second annual International Kuchipudi Convention where 2,850 dancers participated at the Gachibowli Stadium in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India on December 26, 2010.

Moirangthem Okendra Kumbi, from Manipur, India, has been shaping in his garden called, ‘Hedge to Heavens’, the shoots of the sky flower bush which has apparently grown to a height of 18.59 meters. He had started shaping the bush since 1983 and has, till date, cut 41 structural shapes in it.

Lu Zhi-hao from China’s Guangdong province is believed to be the fattest 4-year-old in the world. The obese child weighs 136 pounds and has major health risk, according to the doctors. A health clinic in Hong Kong has offered free weight-loss treatment for the child.