*Sports that will feature: Athletics, aquatics (diving, swimming), archery, badminton, billiards and snooker, cycling, boxing, fin swimming (above), football, golf, judo, karate, muay thai, petanque, sepak takraw, shooting, shuttlecock kicking, silat, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis and soft tennis, volleyball, weightlifting, wrestling, wushu.

Olympic sports that are missing: Fencing, gymnastics, handball, hockey, rowing, sailing.

Other sports that have been dropped: Baseball, bodybuilding, bowling, dance sport, rugby, softball, traditional boat race.

Status to be decided before the Dec 9-18 Games: Basketball, canoeing, water polo.

* List as of Nov 13, 2008, following SEA Games Federation meeting in Vientiane.