French Polynesia

The French overseas minister Annick Girardin says the process to compensate victims of France's nuclear weapons tests in French Polynesia has accelerated since she has taken office.

A convention has been signed in French Polynesia to commission a history commemorating the legacy of the French nuclear weapons tests.

Two small airlines in the French Pacific have signed up to a partnership to improve their respective operations.

An expert in international law says French Polynesian groups who have filed a complaint against France in the International Criminal Court are unlikely to be successful.

China's top diplomat in French Polynesia Shen Zhiliang risks being taken to court in Tahiti for refusing to honour a home repair contract.

French Polynesia's pro-independence opposition Tavini Huiraatira party says its leader Oscar Temaru won't lose office over alleged breaches of the electoral law.

The French Polynesian government has been given 15 days to issue an operating licence to a new domestic airline.

The defence in French Polynesia's trial over the 2007 Air Moorea crash has suggested that the pilot's health may have failed and caused the accident.

French Polynesia's main church says it wants the United Nations Human Rights Council to look at the legacy of France's nuclear weapons tests in the South Pacific.

France says it will defend itself against allegations of crimes against humanity for its nuclear weapons tests in the South Pacific.

France is being taken to the International Criminal Court over its nuclear weapons testing in French Polynesia.

The trial opens in French Polynesia today of seven people accused of involuntary homicide over the Air Moorea crash of 2007. Audio

A high-level French Polynesian delegation is in the US to officially receive the first Boeing 787 of the territory's airline.

There has been a call to open France's former nuclear weapons test site in French Polynesia to the public.