French Polynesia

A study is being launched in French Polynesia on the consumption and impact of methamphetamine.

A high-profile French Polynesian mayor, Cyril Tetuanui, has been back in the court of appeal after France's highest court sent his case back to Tahiti.

The conviction of a captain whose cargo ship drifted onto a reef in French Polynesia has become final.

There will be no print edition of French Polynesia's daily newspapers until next week.

The new French High Commissioner to French Polynesia says a memorial site for the legacy of the nuclear weapons tests in Tahiti has to be built.

France's new High Commissioner to French Polynesia has taken up his position, filling the post that has been vacant since May.

French Polynesia's president Edouard Fritch has pulled out of next week's Pacific Islands Forum in Tuvalu.

Tahiti Tourism has reportedly been offered a full page in the Los Angeles Times after an article in the paper confused Tahiti with Haiti.

The French state has ceded to French Polynesia six hectares of land along the runway of Tahiti's airport for social housing.

The French Polynesian government and the territory's mayors have been sharply criticised for their silence on the French weapons test legacy.

A murder suspect in the case of the French Polynesian journalist Jean-Pascal Couraud has quit his job as head of the territory's archive service.

A charity in French Polynesia says so far this year six homeless people in Tahiti have died either in the street or on the beach.

French Polynesia's president has told Pacific health ministers that his government's ambition is to create a Polynesian Cancer Institute in Tahiti.

A bid by French Polynesia's veteran politician Gaston Flosse and his son Reginald to have charges against them to be dropped has failed.

The French Polynesian president is hopeful the much delayed Chinese fish farm project on Hao atoll will start before the end of the year.

A French writer convicted for inciting hatred in French Polynesia has been acquitted on appeal.

France has submitted its claim to extend the continental shelves in French Polynesia by almost a quarter of a million square kilometres.