From their first encounters with Europeans in 1642 to the Musket Wars in the first half of the 19th century, the Māori, the ...

Smartie founder Brett Baudinet says the opportunity is a huge milestone not just for his company, but for the Cook Islands and the wider region. “This is putting us on the map in the tech scene. I ...

The find came during a recent expedition to map the seafloor in a region about 2,900 miles south of Hawaii. The area lies near the Cook Islands, a chain of 15 islands between French Polynesia and ...

"When we map the seabed in some detail ... study these hot spots in the Cook Islands region." Last year, Dr Jackson and his graduate student, Yifan Du, discovered that an underwater volcano (named ...

Cook Islands are the only non-qualified IRL Full Member for RLWC2026 from the Asia-Pacific region, while South Africa are the only non-qualified IRL Full Member in the Middle East & Africa region.

Last month, New Zealand’s political and media establishment erupted in outrage over the decision by the Cook Islands government to sign a wide-ranging strategic partnership agreement with China ...

The Cook Islands, a nation in the Pacific Ocean, hosted this year’s ecumenical World Day of Prayer on March 7, bringing together hundreds of people from the country’s six Christian churches.

and the necessary resources it would have to bring to bear in a more strategically contested region, the Cook Islands deal might well do the same to domestic debate in New Zealand.” Amanda ...

The Cook Islands may be small ... it's bagging a security deal in the Solomon Islands or providing medical services in Tonga, China's presence in the region has been growing.

The Cook Islands maintains a special relationship with New Zealand, including dual citizenship arrangements. The seabed agreement underscores China’s deepening economic influence in a region ...

The Cook Islands signed a five-year agreement with China for seabed mineral exploration and research. Prime Minister Mark Brown was accused of not consulting New Zealand on the deal with China.