The Bajau Laut (also known as Sea Gypsies) are nomadic seafaring people who traditionally live on boats and stilt houses in the waters around giant island Malaysian Borneo, Sabah, the Philippines ...

Scattered through Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, the Bajau are a semi-nomadic tribe of fishers with extraordinary freediving skills. Research has shown that their anatomy has evolved to ...

A cornucopia of readily available ocean creatures that the Sampelan Bajau people can rely on when the weather is too bad to take to the seas. This isn’t going to settle down anytime soon.

COMMENT | Education is so important whether it is formal or informal. I have always believed that because it was also what I was taught as a child by my parents. They sent me to school and tried ...

Sea nomads have faced decades of discrimination in postcolonial Southeast Asia. Malaysia’s recent mass evictions of the Bajau Laut are just the latest example.

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Kitingan noted that this strategy will incentivise communities, such as the Bajau Laut, to become guardians of Sabah’s seas and the wider Coral Triangle. "If we could achieve this, then I see no ...

The activist, who had previously highlighted the plight of the indigenous Bajau Laut community, said in an Instagram post tonight that this was “intimidation” by the authorities against his work.

Bilkuin Jimmysali, Enidah Mulsid and Shima Manan are barely out of their teens but they have been vested with the responsibility to provide basic education to the children of their Bajau Laut ...

KOTA KINABALU: Police are on the lookout for three Bajau Laut in connection with the murder of their neighbour who was alleged to have been forcibly snatched from his boat in Semporna district waters.