STORY: New Zealand has suspended millions in budget funding to the Cook Islands over that nation's growing ties with China. Tensions between the two escalated in February after Cook Islands Prime ...

Earlier this year, New Zealand extended its funding pause to its realm country, the Cook Islands, "reluctantly".

Wellington’s diplomatic bullying of the Cook Islands is part of the sharpening geopolitical tensions in the Pacific region ...

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 ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand has suspended millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands over the “breadth and content” of agreements the smaller Pacific nation has made with China, ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand has halted millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands over the “breadth and content” of agreements the smaller Pacific nation made with China, officials ...

(Reuters) - New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters said on Wednesday his country must “reset” its relationship with the Cook Islands government after its Pacific neighbour signed agreements with ...

In a clear and deliberate diplomatic snub, the New Zealand government boycotted celebrations in the Cook Islands on August 4 marking 60 years of “self-government in free association with New Zealand.” ...

Ferry Holdings, which took responsibility for New Zealand’s Cook Strait Ferry Replacement Work Program on April 1 this year, ...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) -New Zealand expressed renewed concern on Monday about the Cook Islands' prime minister travelling to China this week to sign agreements without properly consulting with ...

From left to right: Prime Minister of the Cook Islands Mark Brown, Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration of the Cook Islands Tukaka Ama, Chinese Premier Li Qiang, and Chinese Minister ...