The 24th Southeast Asian Games (also known as SEA Games) will be held in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand from December 6 to December 16, 2007. The Thai Olympic Committee is planning the event to coincide with the commemoration of 80th birthday of King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Officials are studying the possibility of doing the events in multiple venues like what was done in Vietnam and the Philippines.
It would be the sixth time Thailand has hosted the SEA Games. Thailand had hosted the 1959 (inaugural games), 1967, 1975, 1985 and 1995 SEA Games. The 2007 games were to be hosted in Singapore, but the city-state gave up the chance in 2004 as the future SportsHub in Kallang would be still under construction.
The 2007 SEA Games will feature more than 400 events in 43 sports. Participating countries include; Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor Leste and Vietnam.
As the games near I will post English services for those country's on shortwave that are participating. Those will likely include updates in their newscast or special programming. Stay tuned blog readers.
