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 ...

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, who is on his first official visit to China, said the Cook Islands had not been transparent ...

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

New Zealand says funding won’t resume until Pacific nation takes ‘concrete steps to repair relationship and restore trust’ ...

China has been wooing Pacific Island countries with strategic partnership agreements. New Zealand has said it will pause ...

New Zealand is penalising the Cook Islands over its growing ties with China by suspending close to $A17 million in budget ...

New Zealand has halted more than $18 million in development assistance to its realm country. But the island's prime minister ...

New Zealand has halted millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands over agreements the smaller Pacific nation made ...

New Zealand has what is known as a "free association" relationship with the Cook Islands, and helps the latter with defence ...

New Zealand has halted millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands over agreements the smaller Pacific nation made ...

New Zealand’s government halted aid to close partner the Cook Islands on Thursday because of a row over agreements the ...

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