French Polynesia

The appeal court in French Polynesia has heard the case of three politicians convicted for abusing public funds.

United Airlines has confirmed that it will launch flights to French Polynesia at the end of October.

The former head of a now defunct legal body in French Polynesia has taken the government to court, seeking reparations of almost $US100,000.

Around 900 athletes have gathered on a small atoll in French Polynesia's East Tuamotu islands for the inter-island games, swelling the population at least two fold.

The French overseas minister Annick Girardin says she will attend the state's broad public consultations in French Polynesia next month.

The planned launch of a huge Chinese fish farm on Hao atoll in French Polynesia has been delayed because of a legal dispute.

An appeal court in France has ruled that 25 veterans of the nuclear weapons tests in French Polynesia and Algeria have to be compensated for ill-health.

French Polynesia's assembly has approved a budget of $US1.6 billion for 2018.

Air Tahiti Nui will lower airfares on its route to Paris from April in the face of increasing competition.

A strike in French Polynesia which has crippled meal services in Papeete for two weeks has been settled.

France's ruling En Marche party has announced that it will contest French Polynesia's territorial election next year.

Tahitian rugby sevens players will not compete at the Pacific Mini Games after pulling the plug at the eleventh hour.

The former head of Tahiti Football, Reynald Temarii, has rejected suggestions of wrongdoing over the allocation of the Football World Cup.

There is a risk of another strike at Air France in French Polynesia.

Reports from French Polynesia say a strike by Tahiti-based flight attendants of Air France has ended.

A week-long strike at French Polynesia's La Depeche de Tahiti newspaper has been settled.

A Tahiti team will not take part in the Pacific Mini Games, with the territory's athletes to compete under a neutral banner, following the French Polynesia's government's decision to boycott the…

The former head of Tahiti Football, Reynald Temarii, has been detained in Papeete in a probe into the allocation of the 2018 and 2022 Football World Cups.

The criminal court in French Polynesia has jailed a 21-year-old man for two years for stealing a policeman's firearm from his home in Paea.