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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The decision by Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters to suspend payment of aid to the Cook Islands could backfire on the New Zealand government, an academic says. Peters has withheld more than ...

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

As the Cook Islands marks six decades of self-government, a critical question lingers: Does our booming economy still need foreign aid? The answer may lie in the fine print of a decades-old agreement, ...

46 percent of respondents to a Taxpayers' Union-funded Curia poll believe Cook Island citizens should no longer have ...