Cook Island's Prime Minister Mark Brown says any new agreement with NZ can't "wind back the clock" to the colonial era. NZ ...

Mark Brown has recently been caught up in a bitter dispute with New Zealand over agreements he signed with China.

The Cook Islands is now a much more independent country than it was in 1965,' Premier Mark Brown says amid tensions with Wellington over closer ties with Beijing - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Former national weightlifter Luisa Peters has been appointed as the new chief of the Cook Islands Sports and National Olympic ...

“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has acknowledged the bilateral relations and collaboration between Fiji and the Cook Islands.

This story is part of the Grist series Unearthed: The Mining Issue, which examines the global race to extract critical minerals for the clean energy transition. It was produced by Grist and co ...

The signing of the Action Plan for Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (2025-30) between China and the Cook Islands has ...

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown says he will only re-work constitutional ties with New Zealand if the new agreement makes it clear his country is now "more independent" - risking a fresh brawl ...

Hawaii’s American colonizers once banned the Hawaiian language in schools. Some Native Hawaiians tried to lighten their skin with lye. Many people believed Polynesian voyagers had si ...