The Cook Islands said Saturday it has struck a five-year agreement with China to cooperate in exploring and researching the ...

The Cook Islands said on Saturday it has struck a five-year agreement with China to cooperate in exploring and researching ...

The Cook Islands said it has formalized cooperation pacts with China, including an action plan for a comprehensive strategic ...

The Cook Islands has announced five-year agreement with China for the exploration of seabed minerals. New Zealand has urged the self-governing nation to keep to its "free association" relationship ...

Analysis: This is no mere holiday snapshot – this is the Cooks PM discovering China's seabed mining expertise, writes ...

The island's Seabed Minerals Authority says it has held "high-level" discussions with several institutes to advance ...

While visiting China last week, Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown signed a comprehensive strategic partnership (CSP), while the country's Seabed Minerals Authority (SBMA) met with Chinese ...

Growing ties between Cook Islands and China, including a new comprehensive partnership agreement action plan detailed this ...

It is no secret that the mass production of cars, telephones, computers and other household goods has led to the accelerated ...

More than a dozen civil society groups are calling on Pacific governments to completely ban deep seabed mining (DSM) as regional leaders meet in Suva for a high-level meeting on deep-sea minerals on ...

This discrepancy arises because deep seabed minerals don’t belong to any jurisdiction and thus cannot be similarly taxed. While sponsoring states can impose royalties on operators, some ...