French Polynesia

Representatives of French Polynesia's self-styled Pakumotu republic demand that the money the group printed be returned to them.

The French Polynesian government has moved to restrict the sale of some medications used to help manufacture illegal drugs.

A French Polynesian member of the French Senate has defended an amendment to the nuclear compensation law which caused dismay among veterans of French nuclear weapons tests.

Air Tahiti Nui says a translation error was behind a report that the airline was planning to launch non-stop flights between French Polynesia and France.

The La Depeche de Tahiti newspaper has avoided being shut down after being given a reprieve in the commercial court in Papeete.

The French overseas minister Annick Girardin says the fight against the high cost of living in France's overseas territories has to be a national priority.

Five more people in French Polynesia have been charged in connection with this month's discovery of Tahiti's first methamphetamine production.

There is a call in French Polynesia to act on the rehabilitation of the late anti-colonial leader Pouvanaa a Oopa who died in 1977.

French Polynesia's nuclear test veterans are dismayed a planned change to the compensation law was quietly altered.

The two main suspects in French Polynesia's first case of local methamphetamine production have been charged and placed in remand.

The former mayor of Fakarava in French Polynesia has been given a ten-month suspended prison sentence for abusing public funds.

A bill by a French Polynesian politician seeking to disqualify elected members convicted of abusing public funds from holding office for life is expected to be debated in the French National Assembly…

French Polynesia has decided to import mosquitoes carrying the wolbachia bacteria to help curb the spread of infectious diseases.

The French government has decided to extend debate over France's social and economic crisis to include New Caledonia.

A court in French Polynesia has sentenced former Air Moorea employees to jail terms over an air crash more than a decade ago.

Two Chinese pearl technicians have been arrested in French Polynesia trying to smuggle more than 900 stolen pearls out of the country.

Suspiciously large purchases of medicines led to the discovery of French Polynesia's first site to produce methamphetamine, the public prosecutor in says

Police in French Polynesia have for the first time discovered a site used to produce methamphetamine.