No details have been released, but analysts and environmentalists fear it will pave the way for closer security ties and the ...

At the heart of the matter is a major deal set to be signed between the Cook Islands and China this week ... of China’s growing influence in the Pacific, which has alarmed the United States ...

BEIJING (AP) — China insisted on Monday that a visit this week by the prime minister of the Cook Islands to Beijing is not meant to conspire against anyone in the South Pacific, despite the trip ...

Leader of Cook Islands flies to Beijing to negotiate a security deal despite New Zealand warnings The leader of the tiny South Pacific nation of the Cook Islands has flown to China to seal a ...

A Samoan judge in the Miss Pacific Islands beauty pageant is being kept in Solomon Islands while pageant organisers investigate accusations of vote rigging. The judge says he has done nothing ...

Today, the Trump administration will be inheriting an inconsistent, inefficient, and incomplete diplomatic posture in the Pacific Islands region. The Biden administration may have expanded the ...

Neither conservative incumbent Daniel Noboa nor lawyer Luisa González won an outright majority in Ecuador’s first-round ...

For decades, Norfolk Island was regarded as a place suitable only for the “newly wed or the nearly dead”. Meanwhile, its ...

As spring slowly moves into sight, the Christian Easter season grows closer. However, Easter falls much later than usual this year. While the holiday sometimes comes in March, it can take place ...

WELLINGTON, Feb 10 (Reuters) - The Cook Islands lie halfway between New Zealand ... Asia Pacificcategory Six dead at resort construction site fire in South Korea's Busan, media says 5:19 AM ...

Chile officials say fire damaged some of Easter Island’s iconic moai statues A fire that ripped through part of Chile's Easter Island this week has caused permanent damage to some of its iconic ...