Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown is visiting Beijing this week to sign a strategic partnership agreement with the world’s second-largest economy in the latest sign of China’s expanding influence ...

The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain’s theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized ...

The odd move makes Taranaki Maunga "a living and indivisible whole" with the full right and powers of a human.

Colonisers of New Zealand in the 18th and 19th centuries took the mountain from the tribes after British explorer Captain ...