Transparency International (TI) published its annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) for 2024. TI observes that ...

US inflation rises along with inflation expectations; Japanese machine tool orders up; India industrial growth eases; Aussie ...

Analysis: Small island states like the Cooks and Kiribati are not the only Pacific nations extremely exposed to the ...

New Zealand needs to ensure it does not become unhinged over the spat with the Cook Islands, says an international relations ...

Australian deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles has reaffirmed Australia's commitment to being the “partner of choice” for ...

The Cook Islands’ pact with China has been furiously denounced by New Zealand as breaching the neo-colonial constitutional ...

Countries facing labour shortages are offering work visas to attract skilled professionals, These visas share similar ...

Singapore's tourism sector achieves strong performance in 2024, with tourism receipts (TR) likely to reach the upper bound of ...

There was much head shaking in editorials and elsewhere that the jobs created by firms relocating their operations or supply lines to the US to avoid the tariffs would be fewer than the jobs destroyed ...

Aotearoa came ninth, with Kiwis spending on average $7550 a year on wellness. Icelanders spent the most ($12,600) followed by ...

The Chinese animation blockbuster surpasses the likes of major Hollywood titles such as Avengers: Endgame and Star Wars: The ...

Perhaps geography is still destiny after all. The closer a Pacific nation sits to American shores, the more Washington seems ...