The Sultanate signed a Jan. 22, 1878 lease agreement with the now defunct private firm British North Borneo Company over a part of Sabah, which Malaysia absorbed after the British colonizers left.

But the territory was once part of the centuries-old sultanate of Sulu, and Filipino politicians have sometimes used that history to suggest Sabah should be part of the modern-day Philippines.

A diplomatic crisis is engulfing part of Borneo, after Filipino rebels seized control of a remote section of Malaysia’s Sabah state as part of an unresolved territorial dispute that stretches ...

A draft framework for the envisioned federal constitution proposes the inclusion in Philippine territory of Sabah, specifically that part which belongs to the Sultanate of Sulu — a thalassocracy ...

The claim by the Philippines over Sabah - which is at present occupied by Malaysia- is based on the title of the Sultan of Sulu who ceded proprietary rights over the 76,115-square-kilometer land ...

The Philippines’ top diplomat this week sparked a row on Twitter by asserting ownership over the Malaysian state of Sabah on the island of Borneo, reviving a long-standing territorial dispute ...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian troops backed by fighter jets attacked an armed Filipino group on Tuesday, trying to end a standoff on Borneo island after violence that killed at least 27 … ...

KUALA LUMPUR: The claims made by the Philippines that Sabah is part of its territory is baseless and irrelevant, says Datuk Kamarudin Jaffar (pic).The Deputy Foreign Minister told the Dewan Rakyat ...

Malaysian troops backed by fighter jets stormed the camp of an armed Filipino group on Tuesday, trying to end a standoff on Borneo island after violence that killed at least 27 people and sparked ...