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.

The institute planning to construct a state of the art floating island in the Pacific says French Polynesia is still an option for the project.

The leader of French Polynesia's Tau Hota Rau party has been declared ineligible for a year.

The main person jailed in French Polynesia in a major tax fraud case has lodged an appeal.

The criminal court in French Polynesia has given a six-year jail sentence to the man accused in what is being described as one of the territory's biggest cases of tax fraud.

The former mayor of Huahine in French Polynesia has been given an 18-month prison sentence for abusing public funds.

There has been a further celebration in French Polynesia to mark the launch of a Chinese fish farm project on Hao atoll.

The French Polynesian man who lodged a complaint against several politicians for alleged campaign irregularities has himself been declared ineligible to hold office.

A date has been set to begin a review of the conviction of the late French Polynesian politician, Pouvanaa a Oopa, who died 41 years ago.

The Chinese company planning a huge aquaculture farm in French Polynesia says its priority is to protect the environment at its site on Hao atoll.

The head of a French Polynesian public works agency, Bruno Marty, has failed in his bid to overturn a conviction for misspending public funds.