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

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

But the proposed pact has shaken decades-old ties between the Cook Islands and New Zealand, neighbours that are set to mark ...

Ruth Cross Kwansing, a New Zealand-born Kiribati MP, has come to her president's defence in the diplomatic row between ...

The leader of the tiny South Pacific nation of the Cook Islands has flown to China to seal a controversial security deal, in ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand is reconsidering all development funding to the aid-dependent island nation of ...

The New Zealand government said it is reviewing its development aid programme with the Pacific nation of Kiribati after the country's president cancelled a meeting with New Zealand’s foreign minister ...

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

However, Ruth Cross Kwansing, a first-time MP who joined President Taneti Maamau's government after ... that could push the island further towards Beijing. However, Kwansing said China had nothing ...

The Foreign Minister has hit back at comments by a Kiribati government minister that the island nation's leader failed to ...

Winston Peters, also New Zealand’s foreign minister, put tens of millions of dollars in assistance for Kiribati under review after President Taneti Maamau ... ties with Beijing in recent years.