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1. News - Asia - MALAYSIA

   Philippine sultan says followers will not leave Sabah

   Posted Feb 19th 2013, 12:00am by AFP

   ... News Asia Sabah Agence France-Presse in Manila Claimants insist 'no turning back' in bid to regain ownership of ancestral territory Followers of a Philippine sultan who mysteriously arrived in the Malaysian state of Sabah this month will not leave and are reclaiming the area as their ancestral territory, the sultan said amid a tense stand-off. Sultan of Sulu Jamalul ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1153418/philippine-sultan-says-followers-will-not-leave-sabah
2. News - Asia - MALAYSIA

   Malaysia in stand-off with ‘Philippine militants’

   Posted Feb 14th 2013, 02:32pm by AFP

   ... News Asia Sabah Borneo Agence France-Presse in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia’s government said on Thursday that its security forces have surrounded dozens of suspected Philippine militants in a remote area with a history of incursions by armed Filipino Islamic groups. About 80-100 gunmen had been cornered in the Malaysian state of Sabah on Borneo island, Home Minister Hishammuddin ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1150085/filipino-gunmen-captured-malaysia
3. News - Asia

   Six policemen among 13 dead as violence spreads in Borneo

   Posted Mar 04th 2013, 12:00am by AFP

   ... yesterday. Six of the attackers were also shot dead on Saturday night and another was beaten to death by angry villagers, escalating tensions in eastern Sabah state, where Malaysia's biggest ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1174076/six-policemen-among-13-dead-violence-spreads-borneo
4. News - World - Kuwait

   Kuwaitis vote in poll hit by opposition boycott, protests

   Posted Dec 01st 2012, 04:28pm by Reuters in Kuwait

   ... on Friday, urging people not to vote in protest against the change to electoral rules which they say will skew the outcome in favour of pro-government candidates. Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1094991/kuwaitis-vote-poll-hit-opposition-boycott-protests
5. 1Borneo, Kota Kinabalu

   Posted Feb 24th 2008, 12:00am by David Wilson

   ... Kota Kinabalu Sabah David Wilson First came the supermarket, then the hypermarket, the supermall and the megamall. Now, in a corner of Malaysia, a shopping colossus is being born. Welcome to the XXL sprawl of the 'lifestyle hypermall'. Christened 1Borneo (below left and right), the mall will open in April in Sabah, in the north of Borneo. The development covers more than ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/627379/1borneo-kota-kinabalu
6. Chillin' out on the Kudat Riviera

   Posted Apr 18th 2007, 12:00am by Mary Luk

   ... Kota Kinabalu Sabah Kudat rivieraThe Balinese-style coastal villas are the product of one man's dream. Now they could be yours, writes Mary Luk If your ideal home is a Balinese-style deluxe villa along an idyllic beach, the Kudat Riviera in Malaysian Borneo is where your dream can come true. Kudat Riviera is situated on an 11km stretch of tropical coastline in Sabah ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/589415/chillin-out-kudat-riviera
7. Walk the planks

   Posted Jul 22nd 2007, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... 'Change them.' Semporna is in the far southeast of the Malaysian state of Sabah, which constitutes the northern part of the island of Borneo. It was founded as a trading post in 1887 ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/601431/walk-planks
8. Forgotten army's death march retraced

   Posted Mar 07th 2006, 12:00am by Nick Squires

   ... were forced to trudge 250km into the jungle from Sandakan, a town in what was then British North Borneo, now the Malaysian state of Sabah. The servicemen, dubbed the 'forgotten army', ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/539385/forgotten-armys-death-march-retraced
9. News - Asia - ISLAMIC MILITANCY

   Jihadi says Sabah state is Malaysia's soft spot

   Posted Mar 25th 2013, 12:00am by Amy Chew

   ... News Asia Islamic Militancy Sabah Malaysia Ali Fauzi Amy Chew in Kuala Lumpur Indonesian fighter claims he gets arms from Philippines via coastal state, which has been invaded by followers of self-proclaimed sultan It is a journey Indonesian Ali Fauzi has made countless times, crossing into Malaysia's eastern state of Sabah on fishing boats and dodging the country's maritime patrols ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1198945/jihadi-says-sabah-state-malaysias-soft-spot
10. News - Asia - MALAYSIA

    Filipino gunmen injure two Malaysian policemen

    Posted Mar 10th 2013, 02:53pm by AFP

    ... News Asia Malaysia Philippines Sultan of Sulu Sabah Borneo Agence France-Presse in Felda Sahabat Malaysian police said on Sunday two officers were injured in shootouts with Filipino gunmen as they try to end a month-long incursion in remote Sabah state that has already left 61 people dead. Fifty-three militants and eight police officers have been shot dead since a group of armed ...

    http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1187594/filipino-gunmen-injure-two-malaysian-policemen

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