Hundreds of college freshmen at a Singapore university met up with members of the opposite sex Wednesday in this record-obsessed country's latest wacky feat — setting up blind dates en masse.

　　Organizers at Nanyang Technological University paired 536 people into 268 couples who spent at least an hour together during a single 12-hour period, a university statement said. The previous record of 123 couples was set in London in 2001.

　　The Singapore event was part of the university's orientation program and 50th anniversary celebrations. This tiny Southeast Asian city-state of 4 million people often organizes attempts to put itself on the world map of unusual feats.

　　Last year, Singaporeans broke Guinness records for burger stuffing and cracker eating. A young Singaporean woman holds the world record for the fastest cellular phone text message.