Before the outbreak of World War II in the Pacific, the island of Borneo was divided into five territories. Four of the territories were in the north and under British control – Sarawak, Brunei, ...

The British Military Administration (BMA) was the interim administrator of British Borneo between the end of the Second World War and the establishment of the Crown colonies of Sarawak and North ...

Kuala Lumpur believes that the recently enacted legislation encroaches on a long-standing dispute over the eastern Malaysian ...

The Sulu claim over Sabah “refuses to go away” because the Federal Govern­­­ment is on the wrong track in fighting the issue, ...

Bangsawan lacks a significant presence in today’s arts scene, unable to match its former glory. It has become a sort of ...

Malaysia announced that it will formally send a protest note to the Philippines over new maritime laws recently enacted by ...

The United States was dragged unwillingly into World War II by the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, ...

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-long legal battle ...

The Federal Government should no longer recognise or acknowledge the invalid Jan 22, 1878 Sulu-Overbeck grant that ...

Some of the world’s borders are just . . . weird. You know this very well if you’re a traveler, a student of history, or ...

It is sometimes incorrectly identified as Independence Day although British legislation did not provide for independence before the ... He was replaced by Anthony Abell who helped bring Sarawak and ...

North Borneo. Geological Survey Department & Wilford, G. E & Malaya. Survey Department. (1960). Geological map of Brunei and adjacent parts of Sarawak : 1:125 000 ...