Mature grouper, giant clams and exotic corals around Lankayan island would fetch big money in a poor region dogged by piracy, tourist kidnappings, and blast and cyanide fishing. “That’s ...

Whereas the rock in England was a place convicts were placed on in an incoming tide to literally be washed away by the sea, never to be seen again, Lankayan is an island off Sandakan, Sabah ...

By the time I got to Lankayan Island in the Sulu Sea the next day, I was feeling a lot more competent in the ocean and less likely to start running across the water at the sight of a shark.

The FCDO advisory advises against all but essential travel to all islands and dive sites off the coast of eastern Sabah from Sandakan to Tawau, including Lankayan Island, due to the threat of ...