Foreign Minister Winston Peters expresses concern over Pacific nation’s independent plans, including a proposed pact with ...

Foreign Minister Winston Peters says the deal between the Cook Islands and China came out of left field for not only New Zealand, but the people of the Coo ...

The Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown says New Zealand is asking for too much oversight over its deal with China, which ...

The Cook Islands prime minister says New Zealand is asking for too much oversight over its deal with Beijing which is ...

SYDNEY: New Zealand said on Friday (Feb 7) it had been "blindsided" by the Cook Islands' plans to sign a major agreement with ...

News reports Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown is travelling to Beijing on Friday to sign a deal.  Foreign Minister ...

The Cook Islands has backed down from its controversial passport proposal after New Zealand warned it was "willing to punish Cook Islanders", its prime minister, Mark Brown, says. Cook Islands ...

New Zealand has raised the alarm on a new pact to be signed by China and the Cook Islands, saying its Pacific partner failed ...

The unusual move to review all finance to Kiribati was prompted by the abrupt cancellation of a planned meeting this month between President Taneti Maamau and New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston ...

Self-governing Taiwan is claimed by China and since the shift, Beijing has increased aid to Kiribati. Peters was scheduled to meet Maamau, who has led the country since 2016, in Kiribati on Jan ...

New Zealand and the Cook Islands are not seeing eye to eye on a number of issues, the Foreign Affairs Minister's office says.

Pacific leaders frustrated It is not just New Zealand that Maamau has refused to meet. Over the last two years, Pacific ...