It was being held in Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Thailand, in 43 sports , including “ Go ” as a demonstration sport, namely athletics, aquatics- swimming-diving and water polo, archery, badminton,  baseball, basketball, billiards, bowling, boxing, rowing-kayak-traditional boat race, cycling, equestrian, polo, fencing, football, futsal, golf, gymnastics, handball, karate-do, softball, squash, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, triathlon, beach volleyball, volleyball, weightlifting, wrestling, wushu, body-building, dance sport, lawnbowls, muaythai, pencaksilat, pentaque and go (as a demonstration sport). Most gold medals were awarded to Thailand with 183 gold, 123 silver and 103 bronze; to be followed by Malaysia and Vietnam respectively. Participated were all 11 member countries.