French Polynesia

French Polynesia's pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru is to stand trial in the criminal court in June for allegedly misusing public funds.

Air Tahiti Nui has been voted the best airline to the South Pacific in a survey by the US magazine Global Traveler.

A further fishing project is being drawn up centring on French Polynesia's Hao atoll.

Questions are being raised in French Polynesia about whether amending the statute will eliminate gender parity in the territorial assembly.

The lawyer acting for a former French Polynesian bailiff has asked for his client to be acquitted because he can repay the money he has defrauded.

A French Polynesian court has found that the French High Commissioner acted illegally in a marital property dispute involving the veteran politician Gaston Flosse.

The French Polynesian government has decided against claiming damages and interest for the abuse of public funds by one its assembly members.

The head of French Polynesia's Land Transport Agency has reportedly given in to strikers' demands and resigned.

China's consulate in French Polynesia says it will only pay what it owes to a Tahitian property owner if there is no negative mention of its officials on the internet.

A fugitive member of French Polynesia's self-styled Pakumotu kingdom has been arrested in Papeete.

The French Polynesian president Edouard Fritch has reiterated his willingness for economic and financial cooperation with New Zealand's Tainui people.

Two striking unions in French Polynesia say they want a court to confirm that there is a conflict of interest in the running of the Land Transport Agency.

French Polynesia's pro-independence Tavini Huiraatira Party has reiterated its accusation that France is trying to politically assassinate its leader Oscar Temaru.

A now independent French Polynesian assembly member Angelo Frebault is about to join the ruling Tapura Huiraatira Party - two months after being expelled from the opposition Tahoeraa Huiraatira Party.

The French Senate has approved $US3 million to allow more nuclear weapons test victims in French Polynesia to resubmit their compensation claims.

France's highest court has quashed two sentences given to a high-profile French Polynesian mayor Cyril Tetuanui.

French Polynesia's veteran politician Gaston Flosse and his son Reginald have been charged for an allegedly fraudulent Paris property arrangement.

French Polynesia's veteran politician Gaston Flosse is in custody to be questioned over the legality of a Paris property arrangement.

There has been a war of words in French Polynesia after the opposition's Oscar Temaru faced his first ever formal police interrogation.

French Polynesia's pro-independence opposition party says it will circulate a petition locally and internationally to back campaigns against France over the legacy of its nuclear weapons tests.