Religion: The principal religion is Christianity, with about70% of the population adhering to the Cook Islands Congregational Christian Church, and Roman Catholic.
The Cook Islands, Kiribati, Niue, Tonga, the Solomon Islands, Fiji and Vanuatu could also all be at risk.
pearls are customarily farmed in French Polynesia, although Fiji and the Cook Islands are now in on the act, charging less for their pearls than Tahiti - with its lofty prices - does.
The entire issued share capital of Starlite Printers (Cook Islands) Limited is beneficially owned and controlled by Kwong Yu and Ms. Yeung Chui.
A volcanic island of the southern Pacific Ocean west - northwest of is the largest of the Leeward group of the Society Islands in French ation of its people to Hawaii, the Cook Islands, and New Zealand is believed to have begun some600years ago.
The Rev John Williams of the London Missionary Society arrived in the Cook Islands in 1821 Photo: getty.
Late for church in New Zealand's Cook Islands, a young girl peers anxiously inside.
