French Polynesia

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.

France and French Polynesia have signed a deal under which Paris will extend some social welfare payments to the territory.

A total of 21 people in French Polynesia have been sentenced in the territory's biggest methamphetamine smuggling case.

A survey among teenagers in French Polynesia found that 20 percent of girls and nine percent of boys seriously considered committing suicide in the past year.

French Polynesia President Edouard Fritch threatened to resign last week over tension within his Tapura Huiraatira party, news reports say.

French Polynesia's ruling Tapura Huiraatira party has reportedly dumped its leader in the legislature - just one month after the party won a landslide victory in the territorial election.

An alert has been issued in French Polynesia after a person has been diagnosed with Type 2 dengue.