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

New Zealand has abruptly halted nearly $NZ20 million ($US11 million) in funding to the Cook Islands in retaliation for a ...

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown on Friday defended a string of contentious deals with China, saying they did not "compromise" the Pacific island nation's sovereignty. The agreements prompted ...

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

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

FILE - Cook Islands Prime Minister, and outgoing Chair of the Pacific Islands Forum, Mark Brown, speaks at the opening of the annual Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting in Nuku'alofa, Tonga, on ...

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

New Zealand has paused $18.2 million in development assistance funding to the Cook Islands after its government signed partnership agreements with China earlier this year. This move is causing ...

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown told lawmakers in Parliament on Thursday that the funding was “not halted, it’s paused,” and downplayed the significance of the amount frozen.

The Government is pausing $18 million in funding for the Cook Islands following their deals with China earlier this year.

In December 2024, Prime Minister Mark Brown proposed issuing a unique Cook Islands passport;a move Wellington warned could ...

The Cook Islands, population 15,000, has a large and lucrative exclusive economic zone, with Brown’s government exploring prospects for deep sea mining activity.