New Zealand has abruptly halted nearly $NZ20 million ($US11 million) in funding to the Cook Islands in retaliation for a partnership agreement the tiny Pacific Island nation concluded with China in ...

New Zealand has suspended millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands, the government said Thursday, as relations ...

New Zealand has suspended millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands. The government is taking that action because of ...

Helen Clark says the Cook Islands government entered into a strategic partnership with a major power nation - China - without ...

WELLINGTON: Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark believes the Cook Islands, a realm of New Zealand, caused a crisis ...

Thirty percent of the 1000-person sample supported Cook Islanders retaining citizenship, 46 percent were opposed and 24 ...

Cook Islands PM said the relationship between his country and New Zealand is defined by partnership, not paternalism. Read ...

China has been wooing Pacific Island countries with strategic partnership agreements. New Zealand has said it will pause funding to the Cook Islands until it can take a closer look at these deals. New ...

New Zealand has paused funding to the Cook Islands in an escalation over the Pacific island nation's ties to China.

New Zealand has said it will pause funding to the Cook Islands until it can take a closer look at these deals.New Zealand's ...

New Zealand on Thursday said it had paused a planned US$11 million development assistance payment for the next financial year ...

Cook Islands government anticipated the multi-million-dollar core sector support funding ‘pause’ from New Zealand towards the ...