French Polynesia

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.

French Polynesia has decided to introduce a sugar tax to counter soaring rates of diabetes.

French Polynesia's opposition parties want to do away with the territory's autonomy statute after the government majority approved a raft of changes to it.

French Polynesia's president has admitted that for 30 years he lied about the effects of French nuclear tests.

French Polynesia has decided to introduce a sugar tax to counter soaring rates of diabetes.

A teenager in French Polynesia has been picked up by a ferry between Moorea and Tahiti after he had apparently spent a night at sea.

The French National Assembly has voted to give French Polynesia a building in Papeete for a memorial site of the French nuclear weapons tests.