Cook Islands says comprehensive strategic partnership deal signed with China
The Cook Islands said on Saturday that it signed a comprehensive strategic partnership deal with China - a move expected to ...
Ocean swimmer Craig Clarke retires from 'brutal' Cook Strait double crossing
Clarke wanted to be the first person in almost 40 years to achieve a double crossing of New Zealand's Cook Strait but the ...
China extends reach in South Pacific with Cook Islands deal
No details have been released, but analysts and environmentalists fear it will pave the way for closer security ties and the ...
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New Zealand and the Cook Islands fall out over China
The Cook Islands needs trade and investment. Its economy depends on tourism, and, having graduated to “high-income” status in ...
China sees 'in-depth' Cook Islands talks, partnership deal expected
China acknowledged a visit by the Cook Islands leader for the first time on Thursday, amid exasperation in New Zealand that ...
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Explainer 454: New Zealand’s beef with its neighbours
Why has New Zealand fallen out with the Cook Islands and Kiribati? And what does China have to do with it? Andrew Mueller ...
Hawaii Public Radio2d
Pacific News Minute: New Zealand is wary of relations between Cook Islands, China
China is insisting that a visit this week by the prime minister of the Cook Islands to Beijing is not meant to conspire ...
New Zealand government alarmed by Cook Islands deal with China
The Cook Islands’ pact with China has been furiously denounced by New Zealand as breaching the neo-colonial constitutional ...
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‘Red, White and Blueland?’ Republican unveils bill to rename Greenland
Georgia Representative Buddy Carter hopes to assist the U.S.’s ‘negotiator-in-chief’ with his plans to acquire the Arctic ...
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"My daughter was diagnosed with rare tumour - after falling while learning to walk"
Five-year-old Nicola Francis has undergone 20 operations after being diagnosed with a rare and aggressive giant cell tumour.
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A New Zealand mountain is granted personhood, recognizing it as sacred for Māori
But colonizers of New Zealand in the 18th and 19th centuries took first the name of Taranaki and then the mountain itself. In 1770, the British explorer Captain James Cook spotted the peak from ...
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Qualifying format, setting the lineup and practice groups for Cook Out Clash explained
Editor’s note: Saturday’s practices and heat races air on FS1. Sunday’s Last Chance Qualifier and Cook Out Clash air on FOX. The season-opening Cook Out Clash exhibition race will star 23 ...