Sepak Takraw, one of the favourite sports in Southeast Asia, will be included in the 8th world games in Chinese Taipei as a demonstrating sport event, local media reported on Saturday.

The 8th world games scheduled on July 16-26 features soccer, track and field, tennis, billiard and snooker, wushu and other Olympic sports. Sepak takraw sport will be appeared as a demonstrating event, the Forever sports journal quoted a source from the Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee as saying.

The sepak takraw sport has become popular in other Asian countries and regions such as Chinese Taipei, China's Hong Kong, Japan, China and South Korea and it is likely to be included in the next 9th world games, he said.

Men's and women's sepak takraw teams from Southeast Asian sepak takraw powerhouses Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam and Indonesia as well as East Asian South Korea, Japan, China and Chinese Taipei will play demonstrating matches in the world games, the weekly added.

Sepak Takraw, a traditional sport in the Southeast Asia, is a ball game played by two teams of three players each, with their feet, knees and head kicking, passing, setting and striking and also with their body blocking the sepak takraw and prevent it from falling on the ground.

Each team has three players on the court which being divided into two halves by a net. The sport has many similarities like volleyball and badminton but players are not allowed to play with their hands. The sepak takraw game is played in a best of three regus, with each regu consists of three sets.