The Cook Islands needs trade and investment. Its economy depends on tourism, and, having graduated to “high-income” status in ...

New Zealand is taking too hasty and too abrasive an approach to Pacific islands, putting leadership in the region on edge. We ...

New Zealand’s announced review of its development aid to Kiribati after a diplomatic rift between the two countries should ...

The unusual move to review all finance to Kiribati was prompted by the abrupt cancellation of a planned meeting this month between President Taneti Maamau and New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston ...

As the US looks to be leaving the Pacific, and New Zealand is rowing with Kiribati and the Cook Islands, experts worry about ...

Winston Peters, also New Zealand’s foreign minister, put tens of millions of dollars in assistance for Kiribati under review after President Taneti Maamau pulled out of a planned meeting ...

Wellington is at odds with the Cook Islands over a looming new agreement with China and the former Pacific colony's plan to ...

A rare dispute between New Zealand and Kiribati has renewed focus on the Pacific island nation, highlighting the existential ...