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 ...

According to Abraham Idjirani, spokesman for the Royal Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo, some 400 armed men have managed to breach a joint Malaysian-Filipino naval blockade in the Sulu Sea.

Yesterday’s court decision had to do with technicalities around the appointment of the Spanish arbitrator Gonzalo Stampa, who delivered the multibillion-dollar award to the Sulu heirs last year.

Jamalul Kiram III, the self-proclaimed Sultan of Sulu based in the Philippines who earlier this year ordered his followers led by one of his brothers to reclaim the eastern state of Sabah from ...

From the beginning, the Sulu heirs have engaged in a substantial degree of “forum shopping,” hopping from one foreign jurisdiction to the next to find a court that was willing to hear their claim.

When a few hundred Filipinos known as the Royal Security Force of the Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo was sent by Jamalul Kiram III to claim the throne of the Sulu Sultanate, the VAT69 Commando ...

Malaysia intends to bring the self-styled descendants of the sultanate of Sulu before a court, after a territorial dispute between the two parties led to bailiffs appearing at the Southeast Asian ...

PETALING JAYA: France’s highest civil court has rejected an appeal lodged by self-proclaimed descendants of the Sulu sultanate over an award of nearly US$15 billion, drawing a line under a years ...

But, since Sulu itself became part of the newly independent Philippines in the 1940s, the Sultanate surrendered its claim over Sabah to the Philippines, and Malaysia decided it was cricket to ...

A court in Paris dismissed a bid by the self-styled descendants of the sultanate of Sulu to enforce an order to make Malaysia pay billions of dollars over their territorial claim.

The Sultan of Sulu “decided to forgo the [Filipino-Muslim’s] tradition of a dowry of one island for a princess of Sulu,” the sultanate’s spokesperson, Abraham Idjirani, told the Star, adding, “It’s up ...