The demand is a threat to the nation," he said in a statement ... In April, one of the self-proclaimed heirs to the Sulu Sultanate, Fuad A Kiram, was declared as a terrorist by the government.

Malaysia has been putting up with a nearly decade-long headache in the form of threats posed by the supposed heirs of the defunct Sulu Sultanate. For much of the past century, a string of external ...

The Prime Minister’s Department’s special secretariat says the self-proclaimed Sulu heirs’ claims against Putrajaya are a threat to national security. Malaysia stopped paying the Sultan of ...

The Sultanate of Sulu ruled parts of Mindanao in the southern ... This triggered a backlash from Malaysia, which saw it as a threat to the Sabah region and said it would fight any such moves.

Invading group came from Simunul Island, and claimed to be "Royal Forces of Sulu and North Bornea Sultanate" engaging in fight with the Malaysian army which has killed more than 50 people so far.

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. I only learned more ...

In a hearing yesterday, the Paris Court of Appeals ruled that the arbitration court that ordered Malaysia to make the payment to eight self-claimed heirs of the defunct Sulu Sultanate did not have ...

The descendants of the Sulu sultanate have denied any relationship with former Sabah chief minister Shafie Apdal, refuting a recent report by a news portal. “(We) have no relationship with ...

This idyllic place, however, has long been a source of friction with the neighboring Philippines — home to claimants to the throne of the defunct Sulu Sultanate — over the question of ownership.

The UTC has claimed to be the “rightful custodians of the Sultanate of Sulu Territory” over Sabah and asked the Malaysian government to immediately pay US$15 billion as “cession money.” ...