That the Sulu sultanate was welcomed into the Forbidden City in Beijing is testament to its standing in the maritime trading community of the time and of its wealth and resources, coming all the ...

Kuala Lumpur (AsiaNews) - The Minister of Law in the Prime Minister's Department, Datuk Seri Azalina binti Othman Said, announced a series of measures against the "heirs" of the Sultanate of Sulu ...

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 was discontinued only in 2012, why did the Spanish arbitrator ...

Heritage of colonial period- The Sulu Sultanate was founded in 1457 and maintained its rule until 1800s when English and Spanish colonial forces reached Malaysia.

A Spanish court junked the plea of the heirs of the defunct Sulu Sultanate to reinstate controversial Dr. Gonzalo Stampa as arbitrator.

In a landmark decision, Malaysia has won a decisive victory against the so-called heirs of the long-defunct Sultanate of Sulu. The Supreme Court of the Netherlands dismissed the appeal by the ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

First of 2 parts MALAYSIA might be on the brink of losing $14.9 billion due to the threat of seizure of its assets because of an arbitral award obtained by the heirs of the Sultan of Sulu. The ...