Attorney-general Mohamed Apandi Ali and his team have filed new evidence in their Feb 2 application for judicial review of the 2008 award of Pulau Batu Puteh to Singapore by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands.

This was to overturn the May 23, 2008 ICJ decision that Singapore had sovereignty over Pulau Batu Puteh, while Malaysia owned Middle Rocks, and South Ledge belonged to the state in whose territorial waters it is located.

According to the South China Morning Post in an article yesterday, Malaysia’s “new evidence” comprises a letter by Singapore’s top colonial official in 1958, a naval incident report the same year, and a map of the Lion City in 1966.