The Sultan of Sulu’s Manila home lies in a poor Muslim neighborhood in the south of the Philippine capital. Its high walls are festooned with royal banners weighted down by repurposed plastic soda ...

A comic opera’s century-old ties to Canton will be strengthened July 16-19 when Canton Comic Opera Co. presents “The Sultan of Sulu,” a 1902 musical satire by George Ade. “I’ve always wanted to do ...

Sabah-based businessman Datu Mohd Akjan bin Datu Ali Muhammad has certainly upset the locals in East Malaysia. Seen by many here as a rank opportunist and an ungrateful Filipino refugee, Akjan made ...

Malaysia has been in the midst of an ongoing security crisis since early February, when a group of 235 rag-tag militiamen from the neighboring southern Philippines slipped into the eastern state of ...

It sounds like something out of the Flashman series: A ragtag army loyal to the 75-year-old Sultan of Sulu invaded the northern part of Borneo in early February. Their goal was to retake the state of ...

In early February, a band of Filipino Muslim insurgents called the Royal Sulu Army invaded the Malaysian state of Sabah, on the island of Borneo. Their goal: recapture the state for the Sultan of Sulu ...

While the late Sultan Jamalul Kiram III was laid to rest yesterday, the Council of Elders of the Sultanate of Sulu and north Borneo are set to meet, to choose his successor. Sultanate spokesman ...

MANILA -- 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 ...