French Polynesia

French Polynesia's pro-indepedence opposition Tavini Huiraatira party has abandoned plans to trigger early elections by standing down three of its assembly members.

French Polynesia's public prosecutor has rejected claims that he is part of a French plot to quash the pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru.

French Polynesia's pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru has been released after police questioned him and two others over the alleged abuse of public funds.

A leading member of French Polynesia's opposition says he has reservations about suggestions to trigger early elections.

French Polynesia's pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru is being held by police and being questioned over the alleged abuse of public funds.

The opposition camp in French Polynesia could be considering triggering early elections.

China's diplomats are being pursued in French Polynesia for failing to pay their last electricity bill before vacating their premises in Tahiti.

Four people in French Polynesia have been detained and charged with theft and receiving stolen goods for running a pork trafficking operation in Tahiti.

French Polynesia has advanced its bid to make the 'ori tahiti traditional dance part of UNESCO's world heritage.

A former education minister of French Polynesia has been in court in a case of alleged domestic violence against his former partner.

The criminal court in French Polynesia has given a suspended one-year jail sentence to the captain of a Philippines-registered cargo vessel which ran onto a reef in June.

Judicial authorities in French Polynesia have deferred until April a decision on whether to revive the OPT affair which centres on the territory's biggest case of corruption.

French Polynesia's opposition Tahoeraa Huiraatira party leader Gaston Flosse has distanced himself from president Edouard Fritch, who admitted to lying about the French nuclear weapons tests.

French Polynesia's autonomy statute is being updated amid growing calls to turn the territory into either an independent state associated with France or a fully sovereign nation. Audio

A report presented to the French prime minister Edouard Philippe calls for a law change to make it easier for victims of France's nuclear weapons tests in French Polynesia to get compensation.

French Polynesia's politics is contaminated by its nuclear legacy, with the president Edouard Fritch now admitting that he lied about the French weapons tests. Audio

French Polynesia has officially given the go-ahead to a Chinese company to build the South Pacific's largest fish farm at Hao atoll.