Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown on Friday defended a string of contentious deals with China, saying they did not ...

In December 2024, Prime Minister Mark Brown proposed issuing a unique Cook Islands passport—a move Wellington warned could ...

The prime minister of New Zealand has stressed the importance of his country’s trade ties with China in a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping ...

China has been wooing Pacific Island countries with strategic partnership agreements. New Zealand has said it will pause ...

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, who is on his first official visit to China, said the Cook Islands had not been transparent ...

New Zealand has suspended millions of dollars in budget funding to the Cook Islands, it said on Thursday, as the relationship ...

New Zealand has halted millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands over the “breadth and content” of agreements the ...

“It’s been a long journey, 22 years,” Williams told Cook Islands News ... s Fund), FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization), New Zealand and Australia for their contributions. “These four islands are ...

There was nothing ordinary about 17-year-old Maya Merhige’s recent swim in New Zealand. In March, the American teenager swam the 13.7 mile-long Cook Strait, which separates the north and south islands ...

The Cook Islands government held a similar consultation tour in New Zealand in November last year, which Brown, also the Minister for Seabed Minerals, declared a significant success. According to the ...

RBNZ cuts rate by 25 bps to 3.25%, as expected Central bank warns of reduced NZ demand and global growth due to US tariffs RBNZ forecasts slightly deeper easing cycle versus 3 months ago New ...