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Cook Islander Shane Walker wins big at Pacific Music Awards
Cook Island News
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August 22, 2025
Cook Islander Shane Walker has bagged a double at the Pacific Music Awards, taking home awards for best Pacific male artist and best Pacific song for ‘Believe’. S.Ponsonby Photography/25082105 South Auckland musician, Cook Islander Shane Walker...
Cook Islands seeks partners to bridge ‘obvious shortfall’ in infrastructure budget
Cook Island News
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August 21, 2025
Deputy Prime Minister Albert Nicholas is urging for more investment to help the Cook Islands boost its infrastructure. (Fraser Barton/AAP PHOTOS)/25082060 Pacific leaders, including Cook Islands Deputy Prime Minister, have made a passionate plea...
He Ēwe Molokaʻi: Carrying the Spirit of Molokai to the Cook Islands – Part 1
Molokai Dispatch - Hawaii
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August 21, 2025
Community Contributed By Ka Ipu Makani Cultural Heritage Center This summer, students from the He Ēwe Molokaʻi Youth Cultural Ambassadors Program embarked on an unforgettable journey to the Cook Islands, visiting the islands of Rarotonga and Atiu....
The ultimate week-long itinerary for the Cook Islands
Lonely Planet
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When I first moved to New Zealand, one of the things that baffled me most about Kiwi culture was their devotion to holidaying in the Cook Islands. Don’t get me wrong – I get the appeal of waving palm trees and sun-soaked beaches, especially in the...
Hōkūleʻa and Hikianalia make stop in Cook Islands
Big Island Now - Hawaii
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August 21, 2025
Editor’s note: This story was edited to correct the last time voyaging canoes Hōkūle‘a and Hikianalia visited Rarotonga was in 2014. Traditional double-hulled Polynesian voyaging canoes Hōkūleʻa and Hikianalia arrived Thursday at Avatiu Harbor in...
Cook Islands and Fiji reaffirm development agreement
Cook Island News
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August 20, 2025
Tree Planting Ceremony to commemorate the Cook Islands’ 60th Anniversary of Self-Governance. Minister for Foreign Affairs Tingika Elikana and Fiji's Tourism Minister and DPM Viliame Gavoka COOK ISLANDS HIGH COMMISSION IN FIJI/25081811/25081812...
Cook Islands advocates for ocean protection and climate action
Cook Island News
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August 20, 2025
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigration (MFAI) secretary Tepaeru Herrmann has reminded Pacific leaders how Pacific regionalism has helped the Cook Islands for over 60 years. MFAI/ 25081913 Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigration (MFAI)...
Cook Islands disappointed over stalled global talks to combat plastic pollution
Cook Island News
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August 20, 2025
National Environment Service (NES) director Halatoa Fua in Geneva Switzerland. SPREP/25081914. Cook Islands has expressed deep disappointment that consensus to develop a landmark treaty to end plastic pollution could not be reached. The Cook...
Get connected: USP Cook Islands course welcomes global learners
Cook Island News
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August 20, 2025
The new USP Cook Islands programme consists of six learning courses, one course for each semester of the year. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS/25081901 The University of the South Pacific’s (USP) Cook Islands campus recently launched a new study programme,...
Australia supports Cook Islands U21
Cook Island News
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August 20, 2025
The Australian High Commission team gifted some sporting gear and equipment to Cook Islands U21 netball team, during training in Rarotonga. From left: Mere-Jean Piri, Ledua Lomoyaco, Australian High Commissioner Susannah Hodson, Policy Officer...
Cook Islands confronts critical questions on identity as debate on deep sea mining grows
Pacific Media Network
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Cook Islands confronts critical questions on identity as debate on deep sea mining grows As the Cook Islands approaches the end of its five-year seabed minerals exploration phase and the latest partnership with the superpowers United States and...
Aust-PNG relations at 50: Pride,politics and price of partnership
The National
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Papua New Guinea kicked off a festival of 50th anniversary independence celebrations last month with breathless fanfare that will run well into the rest of the year. The national milestone will fall on Sept 16. Billboards have sprung up around...
Cook Islands 'open to anything' for seabed mining partnerships
RNZ
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August 15, 2025
In 2023, the first ever high resolution Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) footage was obtained for the nodule fields at the bottom of the Cook Islands seafloor. A ROV is a scientific/work platform that is lowered from a boat all the way to the...
Cook Islands pushes for key actions to support Smaller Island States
Cook Island News
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August 14, 2025
Cook Islands head of delegation and Foreign Secretary Tepaeru Herrmann joined fellow members of the Pacific Islands Forum Smaller Island States (SIS) group at the SIS Officials Meeting held at the Forum Secretariat in Suva, Fiji on Friday last...
CIIC staff engage in sign language training
Cook Island News
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August 23, 2025
The staff members of the Cook Islands Investment Corporation (CIIC) at their first session of learning the basics of sign language conducted by the Cook Islands National Disability Council. 25082216. On a mission to understand and learn basic sign...
Cook Islands ready for OFC U16 Men’s Championship challenge
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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August 14, 2025
The Cook Islands U16 football team has departed for the 2025 OFC U16 Men’s Championship in the Solomon Islands, where they will compete against Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Tahiti in Group A with half the squad making their international debut. The...
Letter: Time to clean house at Cook Islands Airport Authority
Cook Island News
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August 15, 2025
Dear Editor, As a concerned citizen, I feel compelled to speak out about the growing unease surrounding the management and governance of one of our most critical national assets – the Cook Islands Airport Authority. From the appointment of the...
‘The new Tahiti’: Cook Islands emerge as latest Aussie tourist hotspot and only a five hour flight from Sydney
PerthNow
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August 15, 2025
If your ideal holiday includes warm tropical weather, relaxation and crystal clear water, then there is a new holiday destination that Aussies are adding to their wish list. Located about halfway between Australia and Hawaii is the Cook Islands,...
Cook Islands advocate for mainstreaming of SIS priorities within Pacific regional…
Pacific News Service
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The Cook Islands joined fellow members of the Pacific Islands Forum Smaller Island States (SIS) group at the SIS Officials Meeting held at the Forum Secretariat in Suva, Fiji on 8 August. The meeting, chaired by Federated States of Micronesia...
Annual road race a resilient reflection of national growth
Cook Island News
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August 23, 2025
1978 competitors of the Round Rarotonga Road Race taken in upper Tupapa. (Left to right) William Matapo Teava, Richard Pittman, William “Apii, Punters” Taramai (obscured behind Richard,) Uaongo “Meke” Areai (obscured,) Arerangi Tongia, Muriaroa...