Sabah-based businessman Datu Mohd Akjan bin Datu Ali Muhammad has certainly upset the locals in East Malaysia. Seen by many here as a rank opportunist and an ungrateful Filipino refugee, Akjan made ...

Malaysia has won an appeal case against the long-defunct Sultanate of Sulu claimants, nullifying a $14.9 billion award that was granted by a court in Madrid in 2022, state-run news agency Bernama ...

The Sultan of Sulu’s Manila home lies in a poor Muslim neighborhood in the south of the Philippine capital. Its high walls are festooned with royal banners weighted down by repurposed plastic soda ...

It sounds like something out of the Flashman series: A ragtag army loyal to the 75-year-old Sultan of Sulu invaded the northern part of Borneo in early February. Their goal was to retake the state of ...

In early February, a band of Filipino Muslim insurgents called the Royal Sulu Army invaded the Malaysian state of Sabah, on the island of Borneo. Their goal: recapture the state for the Sultan of Sulu ...

KUALA LUMPUR — A French court has annulled a legal bid by the heirs of a former sultan who sought nearly $15 billion from Malaysia, drawing a line under a lengthy dispute that stems from a ...

Six centuries ago, the Sultanate of Sulu rose from the Philippines’ southern islands. Curator Peter Lee uncovers the secrets ...

Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim expressed hopes that the judgement would spell an end to the attempts to enforce a controversial $15 billion ruling. The ruling by the French Court of Appeal questioned ...