The ruling in favor of the heirs of the Sulu Sultanate has reopened the question of Manila's longstanding claim over the Malaysian state of Sabah. An audacious legal claim by the heirs of a long ...

The legal case brought by Sulu Sultanate heirs against Malaysia highlights the unexpected links between present day tensions and European colonialism in Southeast Asia. Court bailiffs in ...

Jamalul Kiram III, 75 - who described himself as the "Sultan of Sulu" after a group of islands in the southern Philippines - passed away at a government hospital but remained defiant to the end ...

PETALING JAYA: The descendants of the Sulu sultanate have denied any relationship with former Sabah chief minister Shafie ...

Significance of Sultan's journey Sultan Paduka "Pahala" Batara was the East King of Sulu, most famous for being the first king from the area of modern-day Philippines to be buried in China.

2. The 1878 Grant is the sole and exclusive basis of the claim by the descendants of the Sultan of Sulu. That Grant ceded ownership and sovereignty in perpetuity of parts of present day Sabah to ...

ZAMBOANGA CITY , Philippines — House Deputy Minority Leader and Basilan Rep. Mujiv Hataman has asked the Department of Budget ...

Earlier in November, France’s top civil court rejected an appeal from the Filipino heirs of the last Sultan of Sulu after a lengthy legal battle stemming from a colonial-era land lease agreement.

Malaysia had been left stunned when the Filipino heirs of the last Sultan of Sulu won a $14.9 billion award in a French arbitration court in 2022, prompting them to go after Malaysian assets.

has assured the people of Sulu that they will continue to be an integral part of the Bangsamoro peace process regardless of their province’s exclusion in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in ...