French Polynesia

There is a call for France to extend its state of emergency in force since last year's Paris bombings to French Polynesia.

France says it plans to give French Polynesia an additional ten million US dollars from next year as part of its nuclear compensation payment.

The leader of French Polynesia's pro-independence movement Oscar Temaru has met the French President Francois Hollande during his quest to become a candidate in the French presidential election.

Last Saturday evening on Raivavae, a small volcanic island that juts out from the vast expanse of the eastern Pacific Ocean, residents made an unusual discovery on the edge of...

The leader of French Polynesia's pro-independence pushing ahead in his bid for candidacy by meeting politicians in Corsica.

A former French Polynesian government minister has unveiled a new political party Tau Hoturau.

A former French Polynesian government minister has unveiled a new political party Tau Hoturau.

Internet users in French Polynesia's outer islands report frequent and prolonged problems with their connections.

French Polynesia's opposition leader says his party will launch a petition to stop mining by European multi-national companies.

French Polynesia's international airline has recorded a profit for the fourth consecutive year.

The leader of French Polynesia's pro-independence movement Oscar Temaru says a win in Tahiti in next year's French presidential election would amount to self-proclaimed independence.

A French nuclear expert has been reinstated, three years after the previous government sacked him as the head of the territory's body concerned with the aftermath of the French nuclear weapons tests.

Reports Pacific Islands Forum foreign ministers are in support of French Polynesia becoming a full member.

A new French Polynesian anti-nuclear group has decided to go to the UN in New York to raise its concerns about the aftermath of France's nuclear weapons tests.

The criminal court in French Polynesia will deliver its verdict in the chinaware theft case on October the 11th.

The prosecutor in French Polynesia has called for a one-year jail sentence for the disgraced former president, Gaston Flosse, over the theft of chinaware from the presidential palace.

Oscar Temaru will travel to Paris next week to meet politicians who back his candidacy for the French presidency.

Edouard Fritch says the Protestant church's plan to take France to the International Criminal Court is pointless.

French Polynesia's Protestant church has decided to take France to the International Criminal Court over the legacy of the French nuclear weapons tests.

Eels will be on the mind of two scientists from the Pacific Community's Fisheries, Aquaculture and Marine Ecosystems Division, who set out today on a Japanese research vessel.