French Polynesia

The Chinese President Xi Jinping is offering to host a meeting with Pacific leaders in Port Moresby ahead of the APEC leaders summit in November.

France's court of revision has reconsidered the 1959 conviction of the late French Polynesian politician, Pouvanaa a Oopa.

A teenager in French Polynesia has been detained after hacking into the systems of two local telecommunication companies for months.

An investigation has been opened in French Polynesia into alleged incitement to violence during the election campaign in April.

French Polynesia's nuclear test veterans organisation says if France increases its compensation efforts 100 times it becomes credible that it takes the problem seriously.

French Polynesia's government has marked autonomy day with the president Edouard Fritch attending celebrations in both Bora Bora and Papeete.

A large Philippines-registered cargo vessel stuck on a reef in French Polynesia has been dislodged.

France plans to hold a summit with Pacific Island countries in French Polynesia next year.

The French overseas minister Annick Girardin has defended planned institutional reforms which are being challenged by French Polynesian politicians.

A French vessel has been sent to Raroia atoll in French Polynesia to try to dislodge a large cargo ship stuck on a reef.

A group behind plans for a floating island in the Pacific have launched a competition to find a government willing to host the project.

Three Pacific territories have been discussed at the latest meeting of the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonisation.

French and French Polynesian authorities have held an urgent meeting as plans are being drawn up to rescue a large cargo ship stuck on a reef of Raroia in the Tuamotus.

Reports from French Polynesia say a 132-metre long cargo ship has run onto the reef of Raroia atoll in the Tuamotus.

The French overseas minister Annick Girardin has ruled out sparing French Polynesia and New Caledonia from reforms being pursued by the French government.

France says it has modernised the entire surveillance system used to monitor its former nuclear weapons test site in French Polynesia.

French Polynesia's political parties have spoken out against French reform plans which would cut the number of parliamentary representatives.

French Polynesia's president Edouard Fritch has launched legal action against a rival politician for alleged defamation during the election campaign.

French Polynesian officials and test veteran groups have been told former French nuclear weapons test sites in the South Pacific are stable.