Cook Islands MPs spent over $350,000 on overseas travel in the first half of the 2024/25 financial year, with a significantly ...

The New Zealand ruling elite depicts itself as a benevolent colonial ruler defending the Cook Islands from the alleged ...

They cover infrastructure, ship-building, tourism, agriculture, technology, education and, perhaps crucially, deep-sea ...

While many Pacific island nations have called for a moratorium on deep-sea mining — which they see as a threat to tourism, tuna stocks and other marine wildlife — the Cook Islands has emerged ...

Cook Islands’ shift towards China however has stirred political tensions in the country. Recently, protests broke out in Rarotonga - the largest Cook Island that also hosts the capital and the parliam ...

the small economy relies on tourism - mostly from New Zealand - which collapsed during the COVID-19 pandemic. China and the Cook Islands established diplomatic relations in 1997 and in 2018 ...

The South Pacific country of Cook Islands has unveiled the details of a deal with China to boost cooperation after the pact provoked a rare diplomatic clash with the nation’s chief benefactor, New ...

Cook Islands, with a population of 15,000, a tourism economy and a large exclusive economic zone, is a self-governing country in free association with New Zealand, which provides the bulk of ...

tourism, agriculture, technology, education and, perhaps crucially, deep-sea mineral exploration. Brown says his decisions will be based on the "long-term interests" of the Cook Islands ...

Refusal to share details Cook Islands, with a population of 15,000, a tourism economy, and a large exclusive economic zone, is a self-governing country in free association with New Zealand ...

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown and Chinese ... engagement on “priority areas” such as trade and investment, tourism, ocean science, aquaculture, agriculture, infrastructure climate ...