French Polynesia

French Polynesia's health control agency says about a quarter of employees required by law to be vaccinated aganist Covid-19 may have failed to get inoculated.

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A further 1,000 people have been vaccinated against Covid-19 in the past two days at the presidential palace in French Polynesia as the law making vaccinations mandatory will now be fully implemented.

Tahiti has received its first trans-Pacific cruise ship in two years, with the arrival of the Viking Orion from the United States.

French Polynesia's former president Gaston Flosse says he is in mourning because the French state has signed his political death.

France's highest court has upheld a corruption conviction of French Polynesia's former president Gaston Flosse, effectively ending his political career.

French Polynesia's veteran politician Gaston Flosse says he wants the territory to become a sovereign state in association with France.

Tahiti Tourisme says it wants to increase its focus on domestic travel to offset the difficulties caused to its industry by the pandemic.

French Polynesia's veteran politician Gaston Flosse has again failed to register as a voter in Papeete as he plans to run for a seat in this year's French National Assembly election.

A medical and dental mission from Tahiti visited two isolated atolls in French Polynesia last month, the first such mission in three years.

The French Polynesian government says France's highest court has approved the local vaccination law.

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A senior French official says in French Polynesia there is no risk linked to radioactivity emanating from France's nuclear weapon tests.

Further talks are expected at French Polynesia's presidency tomorrow to try to end an open-ended public and private sector general strike launched last Thursday.

Negotiations have continued into the weekend in French Polynesia to avert an open-ended general strike called for November 24th.