Cook Islands PM said the relationship between his country and New Zealand is defined by partnership, not paternalism. Read ...

New Zealand has suspended millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands, the government said Thursday, as relations ...

New Zealand on Thursday said it had paused a planned US$11 million development assistance payment for the next financial year ...

The Cook Islands prime minister has suggested a double standard, after the New Zealand government cut its development ...

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

Pausing nearly $20 million in development assistance is “patronising” and “inconsistent with modern partnership”, Prime ...

New Zealand has paused funding to the Cook Islands in an escalation over the Pacific island nation's ties to China.

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 ...

President Xi Jinping met with New Zealand's Prime Minister Christopher Luxon in Beijing on Friday, calling on both sides to ...

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

Tonight on The Huddle, Auckland councillor Maurice Williamson and Wellbeing Economy Alliance director Gareth Hughes joined in ...