The tangled history dates back to an 1878 agreement between the sultan of a territory that stretched between Borneo and the Philippines and two European merchants. Malaysia in 2013 suspended payments ...

Heirs to the Sultanate of Sulu: Part Two ... Last of 2 parts. LAST week's column provoked a flurry of questions: If the heirs of the Sultanate were supposed to receive only $5,300 per year and payment ...

Invasion attempt by a group claiming to be inheritors of the Sulu throne with a 100 strong "army" on Borneo's Malaysian part, has revived a historical feud in the region. Malaysian government ...

The Sulu claim must therefore be viewed in the context of empire and colonialism. The transfer of other peoples’ lands by one empire to another was commonplace in centuries past; a legal ...

KOTA KINABALU: The jail sentence against Spanish rogue arbitrator Dr Gonzalo Stampa proves that the claims of the so-called Sulu sultanate on Sabah had no basis from the start, says Datuk Seri ...

KOTA KINABALU — The Spanish Constitutional Court has thrown out an appeal by the self-claimed heirs of the defunct Sulu Sultanate to reinstate controversial Dr. Gonzalo Stampa as an arbitrator.

Today in 1915, Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram I signed an agreement with the governor-general’s representative, Frank W. Carpenter, ceding his authority over the Sulu Archipelago.

PETALING JAYA: A man who claims a family relationship to a Sultan of Sulu says the group who took the Sulu dispute to the Spanish constitutional court are not the legal heirs.

The Madrid High Court has upheld its decision in 2021 to annul Gonzalo Stampa’s appointment as arbitrator in a case against Malaysia brought by the self-claimed heirs of the defunct Sulu sultanate.

The case arose from a claim by individuals purporting to be the heirs of the Sultanate of Sulu, seeking to enforce an arbitration award that Malaysia has consistently deemed illegitimate. This award ...

Malaysia continued to pay Sulu's heirs about 5,300 ringgits per year (equivalent to ,200) after Sabah's incorporation into the Federation of Malaysia in 1963 and only suspended them after an ...