At 7:30 on a sunny Saturday, Almalyn Akmad stands beside a waiting van with a list of her Sama Bajau neighbours in her hand. One by one, the people around her file into the vehicle as their names are ...

SEMPORNA, Malaysia (Reuters) - Patches of palm thatch entwined with a few forlorn stilts sticking out of the emerald waters in a Malaysian marine park off the island of Borneo are the only traces ...

FEATURE | As early as the 15th century, the Bajau Laut moved around freely in the Sulu Zone – the area around the Sulu Sea and Celebes Sea – until the concept of national borders came into being. Many ...

IF YOU’VE got 30 minutes to spare, queue up episode 3 of Netflix docu-series Home Game. The series takes a look at “unique and dangerous sports,” as the press description calls them, from around the ...

MANILA, Philippines — What ought to be an ordinary day turned out to be a delightful and heartwarming surprise for selected Sama Bajau children and other indigent pupils enrolled at Aurora Quezon ...

TAWI-TAWI, Philippines – It takes two flights from Manila to Tawi-Tawi, and another two-hour ferry ride to reach Sitangkai, the southernmost island of the Philippines where most of the structures are ...

CHILDREN of the Sama-Bajau Indigenous group based in Barangay San Dionisio, Parañaque City, closed the school year on a bright note, with two back-to-back events hosted by Sun Life ...

ALBAWABA - Usually, some people who go on cruises feel seasick. But tribesmen living in the sea south of Indonesia are completely the opposite. The Bajau tribes live abroad primitive self-made boats, ...

Bajau Laut children paddle about in boats in the waters off Omadal island in Semporna, in April 2018. (Bernama pic) An NGO has warned against forcing minority groups such as the Bajau Laut to ...

The pirates of the Celebes Sea. From the mid-nineteenth century until well into our era, this has been a pejorative applied reflexively to the boat people of the marine region, and it is a vast one, ...

KOTA KINABALU, Aug 27 (Bernama) -- Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) has officially established another academic chair known as the Rumpun Bajau Sama, said UMS board of directors chairman Datuk Seri ...