Growing ties between China and the Cook Islands present challenges for Australia and New Zealand’s influence in the region ...

The plan to double New Zealand’s military budget will be paid for with intensified austerity measures. Already, the ...

Vanuatu, site of a major U.S. naval base in the Pacific War, was also a vital venue for China's "undercover infrastructures," ...

A few weeks ago, commercial flights over the Tasman Sea — located between Australia and New Zealand ... in the South Pacific. For at least the last six years, China has made a more focused effort to ...

In a sign of increasing confidence in the PLAN’s ability to operate beyond the second island chain ... Sea roughly halfway between Australia and New Zealand. The activity was noteworthy not ...

The French-hosted regional military exercise, "Southern Cross, is this year moving to Wallis and Futuna Islands.

Though officials from New ... Island, from Milford Sound to Puysegur Point. Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology said the quake posed no tsunami threat to Australia. In a post on X, New Zealand ...

While China’s growing interest in the Pacific certainly caught the attention of the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and others, it was arguably not until the China–Solomon Islands secret ...

One of the smallest economies in the South Pacific, Tokelau survives on subsistence agriculture, fishing, and finance from New Zealand, which counts the islands as one of its territories. Roland Rajah ...

A magnitude 6.7 earthquake off the coast of New ... tip of South Island. The earthquake struck near the tectonic plate boundary where the Australian plate scrapes under the Pacific plate in ...

WELLINGTON, March 25 (Reuters) - A strong 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck off New Zealand's South Island on Tuesday, authorities said, as the country's disaster agency assessed if there were any ...