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

STORY: New Zealand has suspended millions in budget funding to the Cook Islands over that nation's growing ties with ...

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 ...

This comes amid the Cook Islands' deepening ties with China. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Chinese President Xi Jinping said today that Beijing had “no fundamental conflicts of interest” with New Zealand, as he ...

New Zealand has halted millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands over agreements the smaller Pacific nation made with China, officials in Wellington said Thursday ...

New Zealand has halted more than $18 million in development assistance to its realm country. But the island's prime minister ...

China has been wooing Pacific Island countries with strategic partnership agreements. New Zealand has said it will pause funding to the Cook Islands until it can take a closer look at these deals.

The Cook Islands is one of New Zealand’s closest allies in the Pacific. Wellington controlled the territory, which has a population of about 27,000, until 1965. The countries now have a “free ...

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