French Polynesia

There is a growing push for several hundred French Polynesian residents stranded abroad because of the Covid-19 outbreak to be repatriated.

The ban on the sale of alcohol in French Polynesia will be lifted as of next week but restrictions linked to the Covid-19 response will apply.

The French Polynesian government says it will make an assessment of how to deal with a Chinese fishing vessel which ran aground on the reef of Arutua atoll in the Tuamotus last month.

Four men in French Polynesia have been jailed for up to two years for burgling the Red Cross office over the Easter weekend.

An opposition assembly member in French Polynesia says the government is yet to enact any of the financial support decisions made to help those hit by the Covid-19 outbreak.

Air France has put off plans to resume flights to French Polynesia for another four weeks until the end of May.

There has been a call in French Polynesia to revisit the ban on the sale of alcohol decreed in response to the Covid-19 outbreak.

Two more people in French Polynesia have tested positive for Covid-19, raising the total to 55.

A shark protection group in Tahiti has written an open letter to the French Polynesian government after last month's discovery of cut up frozen sharks in the hold of a stranded Chinese fishing vessel.

A repatriation flight is being organised in French Polynesia for mainly travellers from the US stranded because of the Covid-19 outbreak.

An environmental group is challenging French Polynesia's government over its response to a Chinese fishing vessel found with sharks in its hold.

The curfew in French Polynesia over the Covid-19 crisis has been extended to 29 April.

The French Polynesian president has told residents stranded in France they will have to wait for a return home until the restrictions imposed over the Covid-19 outbreak have been lifted.

Four more people in French Polynesia have tested positive for Covid-19, raising the total to 51.

Five more people in French Polynesia have tested positive for Covid-19, raising the total to 47.

The French Polynesian government says the Chinese fishing vessel which ran aground in the Tuamotu archipelago last month wasn't involved in any poaching in French Polynesian waters.

An Air Tahiti Nui airliner has returned to Papeete with 130 cubic metres of medical supplies procured in China to combat the Covid-19 outbreak.

The crew of a Chinese fishing boat which ran aground in French Polynesia's Tuamotu archipelago last month is suspected of being involved in shark finning, which would is illegal in the territory.

Another person in French Polynesia has tested positive for Covid-19, raising the total to 42.

Officials at the French High Commission in French Polynesia have taken exception to comments by a leading local politician over the Covid-19 crisis response.