But those efforts – supported by the Philippine government, which is pursuing a peace initiative with Muslim rebels in its restive southern islands – failed as clashes in Sabah late last week ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Malaysia’s remote eastern state of Sabah on Borneo island is in crisis after militant followers of a Philippine sultan invaded to stake the Islamic leader’s ...

The Philippines is reviving its claim over the island of Sabah following Malaysia's action against an estimated 300,000 Filipinos illegally staying there.

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 ...

The Philippines called on Malaysia to clarify a report that police had indiscriminately shot and killed Filipinos living in the eastern state of Sabah, after a Muslim clan from the island nation ...

The Philippine foreign minister sparked a diplomatic fight over Twitter by asserting ownership over the Malaysian state of Sabah on the island of Borneo, reviving a longstanding territorial ...

The Philippines could be receiving pipeline gas from Sabah, east Malaysia, by 2006 via a new trunkline that would form part of the ambitious Asean grid. 16 August 2001 12:12 GMT Updated 16 August ...

KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah government has referred the issue of two new maritime laws from the Philippines, which violate the state's maritime borders, to the Federal Government and Wisma Putra for ...