Author: Asia Book of Records Team

Abhijeet Baruah of Assam, India, ran an incredible distance of 156.2 km barefoot in 24 hours on January 31, 2012. He started his run on January 30, 2012 at 3.56 pm and ended on January 31, 2012 at 3.56 pm in Assam (India).

Yayasan Islam Terengganu organized an Al-Quran Recital on 30 October, 2010, whereby e-books were simultaneously used in 7 locations (Kemaman, Dungun, Hulu Terengganu, Marang, Setiu, Besutb and Kuala Terengganu). A total of 2,211 primary school students participated in the event, which was witnessed by Menteri Besar of Terengganu Dato’ Seri Ahmad Bin Said at Kompleks Sukan Gong Badak, Kuala Terengganu.

Mohammed Yahya Al-Aseeri (Saudi Arabia) has a collection of 80 different car license plates till August 31, 2007.

Alexander Belozor (Ukraine) created an underwater painting measuring 80 cm x 100 cm, on December 18, 2010, at the diving site El Mina in the Red Sea, off the coast of Hurghada, Egypt. The painting which measured 0.8 m² (8.61 ft²) , depicted a fish in the ocean.

Lakpa Sherpa, of Nepal, successfully reached the peak of the Mount Everest, for the fifth time, on June 2, 2005. She was accompanied by her husband, George Demarescu (USA), who himself was climbing the tallest mountain of the world for the seventh time.

Cengizhan Celik and Candan Canik (Turkish couple) tied the knot using the micro-blogging platform ‘twitter’. The groom Cengizhan Celik (@cengizhancelik) and the bride Candan Canik   (@CandanCANK) exchanged their ‘I Dos’ by mentioning their would-be partner and tweeting ‘Evet’ online. They were on their iPads throughout the marriage ceremony. Mustafa Kara, the local mayor, officiated the wedding and requested the couple to exchange vows via the micro-blogging platform.

Phil Laak (Cyprus) played poker continuously for 115 hours, at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino, NV, USA, starting on June 2 and ending on June 7, 2010. Over 1, 17,000 people watched the attempt live online.

Orissa (officially Odisha), located on the east coast of the sub continent of India, is at present the ninth largest state in India in terms of area. This cultural place is mainly known for its rich culture, internationally famed Odissi dance and the amazing ancient Indian temples. But this time, it is not the history or beauty of Odisha that has made it enter the record books, but something else of this Indian city attracted the attention Asia Book of Records team, and that source attraction was the scheduled feat of endurance to be performed by one Indian Martial Arts practitioner from Odisha itself. Coconuts, be…

Zhang Dafang of China has collected 600 different telephones, till April 20, 2007. He even owns a phone in the shape of a whisky bottle and he found his oldest piece dating from 1900, in a Russian flea market.

The fastest crossing of the Sahara desert by bicycle was in 13 days 5 hours 50 minutes and 14 seconds by Reza Pakravan (Iran) between March 4 and March 17, 2011. He set out on March 4 at 30° 00′ 5″ N and 2° 57′ 2″ E in Algeria and completed his journey at 17° 59′ 2″ N and 30° 59′ 4″ E, in Sudan on March 17, 2011.