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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

Law and institutional reform minister Azalina Othman Said today dared the Filipino heirs of the last sultan of Sulu to try ...