French Polynesia

The defence in French Polynesia's trial of the current and the former presidents says their case should be thrown out because of the statute of limitations.

French Polynesia's president is due in court today accused of abusing public funds.

The administrative court in French Polynesia has, as expected, thrown out 10 of the 12 claims for compensation for ill-health lodged because of the French nuclear weapons tests.

A Chinese fishing company and the captain of one its boats will face the court in French Polynesia for alleged marine pollution.

The French Polynesian government says three major projects are being studied to invest $US120 million from next year until 2023.

The unexpected rejection of compensation cases in French Polynesia has again thrown the spotlight on the apparent impasse over the legacy of France's nuclear weapons testing.

The quay in the French Polynesian port of Uturoa, on the island of Raiatea, has been slightly damaged by a cruise ship.

A man in French Polynesia has been given a jail sentence for harassment after he contacted a senior politician more than 70,000 times.

A nuclear test veterans organisation in French Polynesia says it expects that from now on compensation claims for illnesses caused by the French nuclear weapons tests will all be rejected.

Two more types of cancer have been added to France's list of conditions eligible for compensation over the nuclear weapons tests in French Polynesia.

The public prosecutor in French Polynesia says nearly another 100 kilogrammes of cocaine has been found on a sailing boat seized in the Tuamotus last week.

Police in French Polynesia have seized 340 kilogrammes of cocaine off a sailing boat in the Tuamotus.

Flights have resumed to one of the two airports in French Polynesia's Marquesas group of islands which had been closed two weeks ago.

A French Polynesian member of the French Senate has defended the amended nuclear compensation law.

An accounts office report on French Polynesia's assembly has found the management there to be poor and has called for absenteeism by assembly staff to be curbed.

The French Polynesian government has urged the resumption of flights to two islands in the Marquesas group whose air links were cut nearly two weeks ago.