Twenty-three Cook Islanders have returned from China with new knowledge and perspectives on deep-sea resource management ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China and the Cook Islands have wrapped up their first joint scientific expedition in the South Pacific, a region emerging as a ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand and Cook Islands signed a defense and security pact Thursday, easing more than a year of tension between the Pacific nations over Cook Islands’ deepening ties ...

Cook Islands Seabed Minerals Authority (SBMA) has contributed to a joint deep-sea biodiversity research project with Chinese ...

As the United States steps up its engagement, China has reaffirmed its support for the Cook Islands' seabed mineral ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand and the Cook Islands signed a defense and security pact on Thursday, addressing over a year of diplomatic tensions linked to the Cook Islands' growing ...

WELLINGTON — New Zealand and the Cook Islands signed a new defense and security declaration on Thursday, ending a breakdown between the Pacific nations sparked by a partnership that the Cooks signed ...

The Cook Islands started voting Thursday in a general election that will test the Pacific nation’s appetite for deep-sea mining and expanded dealings with China. Incumbent prime minister Mark Brown ...

The Cook Islands offers a useful warning. When it signed a comprehensive strategic partnership with China in February 2025, ...

The prime minister tells the Guardian that last year’s diplomatic rift with ally New Zealand could be on voters’ minds as they head to the polls ...

On April 2, New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters announced the signing of a new Defence and Security Declaration with the government of the Cook Islands, which he said would establish “a shared ...

FILE - Cook Islands Prime Minister, and outgoing Chair of the Pacific Islands Forum, Mark Brown, speaks at the opening of the annual Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting in Nuku'alofa, Tonga, Aug. 26 ...