New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Winston Peters said he will wait to see the contents of China’s ...

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown is on his way back to Rarotonga after signing an agreement with China yesterday which ...

Official ratification of a "comprehensive strategic partnership" agreement likely to cause consternation in Wellington.

There's tension between the Cook Islands and New Zealand after a potential deal between China and the Cook Island was announced - a deal NZ had no warning ...

Cook Islands officials said on Friday they had discussed seabed minerals research with China as the small Pacific island mulls deep-sea mining of its waters. The self-governing co ...

Cook Islands officials yesterday said they had discussed seabed minerals research with China as the small Pacific island ...

No details have been released, but analysts and environmentalists fear it will pave the way for closer security ties and the start of deep-sea mining.

Ukraine struck Russia's largest steel plant and an oil pumping station this week while Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin ...

Cook Islands tension with New Zealand. Speech by exiled Bangladeshi leader sparks violence. Albanese and Trump talk tariffs.

About 230 workers will lose their jobs at Kinleith Mill in Tokoroa, Oji Fibre Solutions confirmed this morning.