The result shows that local voters are not as concerned about geopolitical issues as claimed in earlier reports, analysts say.

The Cook Islands started voting Thursday in a general election that will test the Pacific nation's appetite for deep-sea ...

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 ...

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 ...

Incumbent Cook Islands leader Mark Brown said he was confident of victory in the nation's general election on Thursday, as results trickled in from a vote shaped by China deals and deep-sea mining.

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

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown is expected to lead the government for a second term after his party won more seats ...

New Zealand formally established diplomatic relations with China in 1972. Since then, the relationship has grown to encompass ...

By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Preliminary results on Friday showed that Prime Minister Mark Brown's Cook ...

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 ...

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 ...