Last year, the Filipino heirs to the last sultan of the remote Philippine region of Sulu were awarded US$14.9 billion by a Paris arbitration court in a long-running dispute with Malaysia over a colonial-era land deal.

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The Hague court of appeals on Tuesday said it did not recognise that there could be an arbitration award to be made as it dismissed the suit.