Deep dive into Sulu


THE other day, my colleague Tan Yi Liang stumped me with several questions about the Sulu Sultanate matter.

His interest was triggered when Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform) Datuk Seri Azalina Othman issued a statement saying that the US$15bil (RM70.3bil) “cession money” demand by the United Tausug Citizens (UTC) organisation was baseless.

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