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Nauru, Metals Company announce revised deep sea mining agreement
RNZ
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June 5, 2025
Nauru President David Adeang at the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum Leaders' Meeting in Nuku'alofa, Tonga. 25 August 2024 Photo: RNZ Pacific / Lydia Lewis Nauru has announced an update to its commercial agreement with Canadian mining group The Metals...
Cook Islands Dance And Fitness Sessions Continue To March On
Scoop
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Lower Hutt Mayor Campbell Barry thoroughly enjoyed has URAHIIT dance class. Photo/Supplied. The beats are pumping, the sun is shining and the demand for more has spoken - URAHIIT is extending its outdoor Cook Islands dance season with extra...
Four community halls progressing as cyclone shelters
Cook Island News
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July 31, 2025
Tutakimoa Meeting House is one of the four community halls approved for funding and actively progressing under the Rarotonga Safety Shelter Programme. SUPPLIED/ 25072821 Four community halls have now been approved for funding and are actively...
Overcoming Drought With Ecological Agriculture
Honolulu Civil Beat - Hawaii
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June 4, 2025
Natural solutions help cultivators conserve and collect water, revitalize the soil and increase production. Many areas across Hawaiʻi are seeing increased drought conditions once again. Gardeners, farmers and foresters can be considerably affected...
Meet the Marine Biologist Working to Protect Our Oceans from Deep-Sea Mining
TIME Magazine
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June 5, 2025
The oceans need more care than they ever have before—and few people are taking on that job with more commitment than Diva Amon. A marine biologist at the Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory at the University of California, Santa Barbara, (Marc and...
Deep-Sea Mining: Who Will Control the Pacific’s Mineral Wealth?
The Geopolitics
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June 3, 2025
Unlock the geopolitical battle over deep-sea mining, where U.S.–China rivalry, rare earth dominance, and oceanic power plays shape the future of global supply chains. The seabed is legally designated as the “common heritage of mankind,” but in...
Offshore Trusts Offer Liability Protection But May Create More Tax
Forbes
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GENEVA - MARCH 25: The plaque of the Swiss Bankers Association is displayed on its building on March 25, 2009 in Geneva, Switzerland. (Photo by Harold Cunningham/Getty Images) Getty Images A lawsuit from a disgruntled employee of a successful...
Te Ipukarea Society: The ‘real science’ around deep seabed mining!
Cook Island News
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May 31, 2025
Cook Islands delegation led by Prime Minister Mark Brown after their seabed minerals consultation with the Cok Islands diaspora in Sydney, Australia, this week. FACEBOOK/25053024 The Prime Minister was quoted in the Cook Islands News article on...
Cook Islands Politicians Question Role Support Shadow Fleet
The Maritime Executive
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The Cook Islands as a registry of ships has become one of the topics of the reporting on the shadow fleet of tankers servicing the Russian oil industry. Now politicians in the small Pacific Island nation are questioning their role in the shadow...
Cook Islands welcomes Marshall Islands’ accession to Treaty of Rarotonga
Cook Island News
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March 7, 2025
Prime Minister Mark Brown met with the President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) Hilda Heine in Tonga in August last year. MFAI/24082613 Cook Islands, a key advocate of the Treaty of Rarotonga since its inception, commended the...
Cook Islands welcomes Marshall Islands’ accession to the Treaty of…
Pacific News Service
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The Cook Islands has welcomed the Marshall Islands by signing the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty, also known as the Treaty of Rarotonga. In welcoming RMI’s signing, Cook Islands Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Tepaeru Herrmann, reflected on...
Cook Islands-flagged ships- there are no illegal operators, says DPM Nicholas
Cook Island News
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March 5, 2025
Deputy Prime Minister Albert Nicholas and Prime Minister Mark Brown in Parliament on February 25, 2025. 25022531. Deputy Prime Minister Albert Nicholas confirmed that more than 700 shipping vessels are registered under Maritime Cook Islands and...
Electric future charged up- CITTI celebrates first EV engineering graduates
Cook Island News
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May 31, 2025
The five graduates of the New Zealand Certificate in Electrical Vehicle Automotive Engineering Level 5 with King’s Representative Sir Tom Marsters and Lady Tuaine Marsters at the Cook Islands Tertiary Training Institute (CITTI) graduation ceremony...
New Zealand's concerns over Cook Islands' shadow fleet revealed in OIA request
RNZ
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April 1, 2025
a photo taken on December 28, 2024 off Porkkalanniemi, Kirkkonummi, in the Gulf of Finland, shows oil tanker Eagle S (R), which flies under the flag of the Cook Islands, next to Finnish border guard ship Uisko (back C) and tugboat Ukko (front L)....
Cook Islands says in talks with China on deep-sea mining
TerraDaily
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Cook Islands says in talks with China on deep-sea mining by AFP Staff Writers Sydney (AFP) Feb 14, 2025 Cook Islands officials said Friday they had discussed seabed minerals research with China as the small Pacific island mulls deep-sea mining of...
Vaka Puaikura electrifies Te Maeva Nui with powerful tribute to leaders
Cook Island News
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July 31, 2025
Vaka Toa Puaikura thrilled the audience with their fantastic ura pa’u on Tuesday night at the Are Karioi Nui. MELINA ETCHES/25073049/25073057/25073059 Vaka Toa Puaikura electrified the stage on Tuesday night with a power-packed performance that...
Cook Islands must find new solutions to old gender equality problems, says Tuarae
Cook Island News
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March 3, 2025
The Cook Islands National Council of Women (CINCW) 2023 Annual General Meeting on 1st August. MELINA ETCHES/23080129 Despite global efforts, the Cook Islands National Council of Women’s three-day summit this week highlights that the core gender...
Cook Islands explores untapped potential of creative industries
Cook Island News
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March 3, 2025
Titikaveka Member of Parliament Sonny Williams (left), Creative Economy managing director Helene George, and Business Trade, and Investment Board (BTIB) chief executive officer Repeta Puna at the Cook Islands Cultural and Creative Industry...
Cook Islands: Mangaia residents turn to land and sea amidst shipping delays
Islands Business
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March 6, 2025
The University of the South Pacific (USP) ‘s Pro Chancellor Siosiua Tuitalukua Tupou Utoikamanu has released a statement clarifying that Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Pal Ahluwalia “has not resigned”. This week, Fiji’s Education...
Cook Islands PM defends China pact
TerraDaily
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Cook Islands PM defends China pact by AFP Staff Writers Sydney (AFP) Feb 18, 2025 The Cook Islands' prime minister on Tuesday defended a new partnership pact with China and urged his country not to depend on handouts from "big brother" New...