Author: Asia Book of Records Team

Dr. Xiulu Ruan (originally from Jinan, Shandong, China), has achieved 7 medical board/subspecialty board certifications in the United States. Dr. Ruan attended the Shandong Medical University (formerly Medical School of QiLu University), from 1982 to 1988 before going to US in 1989.

A total of 716 participants from Singapore participated in painting Easter eggs, at an event organized by NTUC Club, Singapore, on April 6, 2012, at Downtown East, Singapore.

Artist Pei Yongzhong (China) created a porcelain painting measuring 241.2-meter in length and consisting of more than 3,800 figures. The painting consists of 242 independent parts, each depicting a scene from “Dream of the Red Chamber. Each part of the painting measures 76 centimeters in length and 57 centimeters in height and the total length includes the wooden frame of the painting.

Premanand Saraswati (India) made 23 miniature poem books, out of which six books measured 9mm and 17 books measured 15mm. These books contain a total of 2,600 poems with each book bearing above 108 poems.

Thai-Swedish couple William Timhede (23) and Napatsawan Timhede (39) got married under the theme of adventure, in Prachinburi province, Thailand. In the wedding, they were chased by pirates.

Velu Rathakrishnan, of Malaysia, pulled two KTM commuter trains (summing a weight of 260.8 tonnes) up till a distance of 4.2 meter along the rails, with his teeth, on October 18, 2003, at Kuala Lumpur railway station, Malaysia.

Ram Bahadur Bamjan from southern Nepal is siad to have mastered the art of meditation to such an extent that he had gone without food and water for several months. Some of his supporters have claimed that he is a reincarnation of the Lord Buddha, but Ram himself has denied this, and many practitioners of Buddhism agree that Lord Buddha has attained nirvana and cannot be reborn.

Yin Mi, a woman from China, was dressed in a rose bridal gown made out of 9,999 red roses, on February 14, 2012. The gown was made by her boyfriend Xiao Fan to propose to her at the Guangzhou Chime-Long Paradise where they first met each other three years ago.

A total of 85 skaters from all over India, participated in 50 hours non-stop speed skating marathon, starting at May 28, 2012 at 5 pm and concluding on May 30, 2012 at 7 pm, covering a distance of 1572 kms on a rink of 200m, at Shiv Ganga Roller Skating Club, Belgaum, Karnataka, India.

The world’s oldest bowl of noodles was uncovered by archaeologists while working at the Lajia archaeological site in northwestern China in October 2005. The thin, yellow noodles (made from millet) were preserved under an upturned sealed bowl, 3meters (10 ft) below the sediment and dates back to 4,000 years.