See it to believe it : Wan Fuquan creates a new world record by threading 101 needles with mouth in one minute on the set of CCTV Guinness World Records Special in Beijing. more ›

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For those of you who are still struggling with your chopsticks, we've found you someone you should be taking lessons from. Meet Ma Deqi (马得奇), a Chinese farmer who has won fame for his unique ability to catch ping pong balls with a pair of chopsticks. He's so good he has even won a Guinness World Record for doing that! In this video, he catches 40 ping pong balls with his chopsticks in 60 seconds -- that's waaaay better than his official Guinness record of 17. more ›

Two Chinese men stripped off at Zhangjiajie, Hunan, and set a new world record for full body ice contact endurance. Chen Kecai and Jin Songhao, both from Heilongjian province, stayed in the ice for 118 minutes and 120 minutes respectively, breaking the previous record of 115 minutes set several days earlier by Wim Hof, a 51-year-old Dutch man, in Hong Kong. While he was in the glass compartment, Jin wrote two signs -- one proclaiming "Long live the people of China" (中国人名万岁!) and another "Long live the Chinese Communist Party!" (中国共产党万岁!) more ›

Does anyone here remember the good old days when the world's tallest and shortest men were both Chinese (and from the same region in Inner Mongolia)? Le sigh. These days, Bao Xishun (鲍喜顺) isn't even China's tallest man anymore — that title has now gone to a 27 year old circus performer from Henan province by the name of Zhao Liang. The cute little He Pingping (何平平) — some of you will remember him from his previous meeting with the world's leggiest woman — still retains the title as the world's shortest man, and just recently he met up with Sultan Kösen, a young Turkish man who is the current record holder of the tallest living man in the world, in Istanbul, Turkey: more ›

.... and no, he's not a eunuch or anything. 52 year old Chinese music teacher Li Wenxing (李文兴) is now practicing to reach six octaves plus one minor triad to break the Guinness record for world's widest vocal range, currently held by American Tim Storms. Just for comparison, the average person sings 1-2 octaves, professional singers with extensive training can sing about 3 octaves unstrained, and Mariah Carey is able to reach 5 octaves. more ›

The last time we heard about Yu Zhenhuan (于震环), he was aiming to be part of the torch relay for the Beijing Olympics but it looks like he didn't get in. While a pair of Mexican brothers may have taken over him as the world's hairiest, Yu continues to reign as China's hairiest man. Today, he's touring around China with his rock band and hopes to record an album soon. Watch him sing and dance here and do a talk show on ABC on his trip to the US last year.
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He Pingping (何平平), the world's smallest man from the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, meets Svetlana Pankratova from Russia, the world's leggiest woman in London's Trafalgar Square to celebrate the launch of the 2009 edition of the Guiness World Records. [Source] more ›

A bikini battalion of 1,202 ladies gathered Sunday at the Changlong Water Amusement Park in Guangzhou to form the Olympic rings logo and broke a Guinness world record — not for the largest Olympics logo ever formed with human bodies, but for the largest swimsuit photo shoot ever (previous record was set last year at Bondi Beach by 1,010 ladies). Yet another utterly useless record, you might say, but these girls sure look like they're having a blast! more ›

Just because we’re on the other side of the world from Ireland doesn’t mean that there won’t be plenty going on for St Paddy’s Day over here in Shanghai. This year, March 17th — the date when all of us are a little bit Irish — inconveniently falls on a Monday but fear not, the Emerald Isle’s Shanghai contingent are celebrating early with a bunch of events this weekend. more ›