French Polynesia

A complainant in French Polynesia has asked France's highest court to annul the campaign accounts of the ruling party.

Several unions in French Polynesia have issued a strike notice in a bid to force the government to abandon its pension reform plan.

French Polynesia's inmate seen as the highest security risk says he wants to be transferred to a French prison holding jihadists.

The authorities in French Polynesia have put the self-styled king of the Pakumotu republic under observation as he is poised to continue to defy the French state.

French Polynesia's court of appeal has ruled that $US3.3 million has to be paid in compensation to the families of the victims of the 2007 Air Moorea plane crash.

There has been a further top level meeting between the French Polynesian government and the Chinese company planning to establish the region's biggest fish farm on Hao atoll.

French Polynesia's president Edouard Fritch wants to be paid $US20,000 by a rival politician for being defamed during the election campaign in April.

A member of the French Polynesian assembly has been given a 10-month suspended prison sentence for abusing public funds and fraud.

Defence lawyers for three men charged with smuggling 500 kilogrammes of cocaine in French Polynesia want the case thrown out over a procedural error.

French Polynesia's former president Gaston Flosse has been accused of theft in a dispute with his former wife Tonita Mao

French Polynesia's pro-independence opposition has asked the Pacific Islands Forum to put its decolonisation on this week's summit agenda.

The former president of Futsal Tahiti, who is now a teacher, has been arrested as part of an operation against French Polynesian dealers and users of methamphetamine.

The former head of French Polynesia's GIP militia Rere Puputauki has been in the appeal court challenging last year's conviction for abuse of trust.

French Polynesia's pro-independence opposition Tavini Huiraatira party is confident that its leader's disputed campaign account will be accepted

China's diplomats in French Polynesia have vacated their consulate building in Tahiti, ending a protracted rental dispute.

The French Polynesian appeal court has upheld a decision by a lower court not to charge a former court president with theft because of the statute of limitations.

The leader of French Polynesia's pro-independence party is at risk of losing his assembly seat over irregularities in his campaign accounts.