Mark Brown is facing calls to apologise or quit as Cook Islands Prime Minister over his secretive plans to grow ties with ...

Cook Islands' Prime Minister Mark Brown said on Thursday he had held discussions with institutions on marine science, climate ...

Analysis: This is no mere holiday snapshot – this is the Cooks PM discovering China's seabed mining expertise, writes Jonathan Milne.

Diplomatic storm clouds are gathering around the Cook Islands, a picturesque tourist destination in the South Pacific known ...

The Cook Islands’ pact with China has been furiously denounced by New Zealand as breaching the neo-colonial constitutional ...

Beijing’s growing influence in the South Pacific has hit the close relationship between Wellington and the Cook Islands ...

The Cook Islands is hugely reliant on New Zealand under a longstanding "free association" agreement that provides it with ...

But the proposed pact has shaken decades-old ties between the Cook Islands and New Zealand, neighbours that are set to mark ...

The Cook Islands lie halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii and are made up of 15 islands and atolls spread over 700 square miles (1.9 million ...

China says a visit this week by the Cook Islands' prime minister to Beijing was not meant to conspire against anyone in the ...

The Cook Islands lie halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii and are made up of 15 islands and atolls spread over 1.9 million ...