A Cook Islands MP is accusing the government of taxing low-wage earners more by not adjusting the tax-free threshold with a minimum wage increase. The changes came into effect on 1 July, pushing the ...

Iran’s women’s basketball team power forward Delaram Vakili emphasizes that their primary goal is to secure promotion to the ...

Martus, from St Petersburg in Russia, attempted to rectify this in 2024 by reflagging the ship with that of the Cook Islands.

A controversial sailing ship has left Irish waters after spending three hours in berth at Clogherhead during the middle of ...

A controversial sailing ship which is a replica of a vessel built by Russia's Peter the Great in the early eighteenth century ...

The Shtandart is a replica of a ship built in 1703 by Peter the Great, a Russian Tsar – she is currently visible at anchor ...

THE captain of a replica 18th-century Russian frigate attempting to chart a course through diplomatically-charged waters is hopeful that the ship might be able to visit the Island later this year – ...

The Shtandart was built in 1999 and sails under the flag of the Cook Islands since changing its registration from Russia in ...

Matangi Tonga reported the court heard that on 22 January of this year, in an attempt to overtake a vehicle at excessive speed, he lost control of the vehicle which had defective tyres and veered off ...

Tenders tie up at the processor’s docks, where a tube sucks salmon out of the hold and pumps them into a room-sized vat of slush ice, where they “rest” for six to eight hours to let their muscles ...

Here’s what’s been proposed—and why it never happens. Fresh off his shellacking of former New York governor Andrew Cuomo in ...

Long before European colonizers sighted the continent, legendary explorer Hui Te Rangiora may have seen Antarctica.