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(Eagle News) — The Palace on Thursday, March 7, maintained the Philippines has a claim over Sabah. “The position of the President…meron tayong claim. Totoo naman na may claim tayo di ba. That has been a bone of contention ever since time pa ata ni Presidente [Ferdinand] Marcos,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said. Panelo issued the statement after Malaysia Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad said the Philippines had “no claim” over the disputed territory in […]
Malaysian authorities have made a record seizure of about 30 tonnes of pangolins and their scales worth some $2 million in raids on major processing facilities, police and environmentalists said Tuesday. The haul included about 1,800 boxes full of frozen pangolins stuffed inside three refrigerated containers, 572 more frozen pangolins in six freezers, 61 live pangolins in cages, and 361 kilogrammes (795 pounds) of pangolin scales, according to police. The Southeast Asian nation is battling […]
(Eagle News)–The body of a Filipina was found floating in a river in Sabah recently, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Saturday, Dec. 8. In a statement, the DFA said authorities were looking at the possibility the case of Madelyn Bernardo Asuncion, who was discovered by a plantation worker in Pengalan River in Melalap on Nov. 28, was a homicide. The DFA said the embassy in Malaysia is waiting for the official report of the incident […]
(Agence France Presse) — Malaysia has granted a last-minute stay of execution to a convicted Filipino murderer following an appeal by Manila, Philippine officials said Saturday. Ejah Jaafar, whose age was not given, was scheduled to hang on Friday after being found guilty of murder in Malaysia in 2006. But following an appeal by the Philippine mission in Kuala Lumpur, Jaafar’s case was referred back to the pardons board in Sabah state, according to a […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Three suspected members of Islamic State (IS) in Malaysia who were planning to join the ongoing battle to support terrorist groups in Marawi City were arrested by authorities in Sabah, Malaysia. According to the report from The Malaysian Insight website, the Malaysian authorities seized three Rambo-style knives from the three IS followers. Authorities said that two of the foreigners were Indonesian while the other is Malaysian. Joint Task Force Tawi-tawi […]
Nine Filipinos who were part of an armed group that occupied part of Borneo in 2013, in an episode that left several dead, have been sentenced to hang. The incursion by some 200 Islamic militants from the southern Philippines was inspired by a proclaimed Filipino sultanate’s claims of historical dominion over the state of Sabah on Borneo island. The assault led to a siege between the militants and the Malaysia’s armed forces who were sent to root them […]
(Eagle News) — Hindi kinikilala ng Sabah ang pag-angkin ng Pilipinas sa kanilang estado at iginiit na sila ay nasa ilalim ng pamamahala ng Malaysia. Ayon kay Chief Minister Musa Aman, sila ay nasa Malaysia at pinili nilang patuloy na maging bahagi ng soberanya nito mula pa nang ito ay mabuo. Ito ang naging tugon ni Musa, sa pahayag ni President-elect Rodrigo Duterte kung saan sinabi niya ang kaniyang balak na ipagpatuloy ang pagbawi sa […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Gunmen have abducted four Indonesian sailors and shot and wounded one crew member on the high seas off the east coast of Malaysia’s Sabah state, waters where Abu Sayyaf militants are known to operate, a senior police official said Saturday. If the Philippines-based Abu Sayyaf is confirmed to be behind the kidnapping off Borneo, it would be their third such hostage-taking in as many weeks and comes amid a surge […]
According to Justice Secretary Leila De Lima, the Philippines will not surrender its claim on Sabah in exchange for Malaysia’s support of the Philippines’ territorial claims against China.
Malaysia conducted a crackdown against undocumented individuals in Sabah wherein three Filipino teenagers were killed.
MANILA, April 5 (PNA) — The Western Mindanao Command is still searching for the Chinese tourist and Filipino hotel staff snatched by suspected Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) bandits in a Malaysian dive resort this week. Lt. Gen. Rustico Guerrero, Western Mindanao Command chief, said that they are yet to establish the location of the hostages and the group behind the abduction. “So we cannot categorically state that a particular group is holding the two victims […]
Philippine ambassador to Malaysia, Eduardo Malaya, dispatched an embassy official to coordinate closely with the case of a Filipino resort worker abducted in Sabah.
