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 ...

Cook Islands government anticipated the multi-million-dollar core sector support funding ‘pause’ from New Zealand towards the ...

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 freezes millions in aid to Cook Islands over China ties - New Zealand has halted millions of dollars in funding ...

New Zealand has halted millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands over agreements the smaller Pacific nation made ...

Cook Islands Premier Mark Brown said Thursday that he is open to reworking ties with New Zealand if a new pact makes the islands "more independent," according to the Australian Broadcasting ...

Cook Island's Prime Minister Mark Brown says any new agreement with NZ can't "wind back the clock" to the colonial era. NZ and Cook Islands remain at loggerheads over contentious China deal.

Last month, New Zealand’s political and media establishment erupted in outrage over the decision by the Cook Islands government to sign a wide-ranging strategic partnership agreement with China ...