5th ASEAN Para Games will be held in Kuala Lumpur from 15th to 19th August 2009. The sports that will be taking part are athletic, swimming, powerlifting, badminton, chess, tenpin bowling, table tennis, sailing, sitting volleyball, wheelchair tennis and wheelchair basketball. All the sports will be held in Kuala Lumpur except sailing will be held at Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan.
Altogether 11 countries will take part in this games including Timor Leste as invitation. Malaysia will be hosting this games for the second times since 2001 replacing Laos who reject to host the games. With the limited budget by the government, Malaysian Paralympic Council will still runs the games to make sure that there will be no lap for this series. Malaysia as the host will make sure the games run smoothly.
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