BEIJING (AP) — China insisted on Monday that a visit this week by the prime minister of the Cook Islands to Beijing is not meant to conspire against anyone in the South Pacific, despite the trip ...

Official documents have revealed growing tension between New Zealand and the Cook Islands over the registration of vessels ...

Since the official launch of Operation Namu26, Rarotonga has recorded 121 positive cases in the last 14 days - a fluctuating ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China acknowledged a visit by the Cook Islands leader for the first time on Thursday, amid exasperation in New Zealand that it was not consulted about expected agreements involving ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A strategic partnership deal between China and the Cook Islands spans areas from deep-sea mining to education scholarships but excludes security ties, a document released by ...

"Three sanctioned vessels now remain on the register: the widely-reported EAGLE S, a yacht owned by an oligarch, and a Crude Oil Tanker sanctioned by the US on 21 August for links to Iranian oil," ...

A 26-foot over-the-horizon small boat carrying Coast Guard crew, two Cook Islands Ministry of Marine Resources fisheries officers and a translator from the U.S. Marine Corps approached a fishing ...

New Zealand has paused development funding to the Cook Islands after the tiny South Pacific nation signed agreements with China without the expected level of consultation. The strategic partnership ...

From left to right: Prime Minister of the Cook Islands Mark Brown, Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration of the Cook Islands Tukaka Ama, Chinese Premier Li Qiang, and Chinese Minister ...

There are many great places to go for amazing views—Fiji, Bora Bora, Hawaii, the Caribbean—but what’s great about the Cook Islands is that it’s not as well-known, so the crowds that you find elsewhere ...

HONOLULU (Island News) -- The 10 days of FestPAC brought a lot of goodwill and cultural celebration from nations all around the Pacific to Honolulu. A sequence of events over the two days afterwards ...

The State Department signed a pact with the Cook Islands months after the island nation inked a similar deal with China. Trump administration officials say they’re in talks with the Cook Islands ...