French Polynesia

The appeal court in French Polynesia has cleared a former minister Moana Greig in an alleged embezzlement case.

The airline French Blue has confirmed that it will launch flights to French Polynesia in May.

A new study backed by the World Health Organisation has found a very high level of mental health problems in French Polynesia.

Police in French Polynesia have discovered a cannabis plantation with more than 4500 plants in a forest in Tahiti.

French Polynesia has given the go-ahead for the first low-cost airline to fly to Tahiti.

Tahiti has announced that it will boycott the Pacific Mini Games in Vanuatu.

One of the investors in a controversial fishing venture in French Polynesia's Marquesas Islands says it is wrong to claim that plans are afoot for industrial fishing in the area.

Two women say they thought they would die until being rescued after nearly five months drifting helplessly across the Pacific.

A former bailiff in French Polynesia has been given a three-year jail sentence for defrauding an elderly woman of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Figures released in French Polynesia show more than half the population in the Society Islands now lives below France's poverty threshhold.

Reports from French Polynesia say the government has met the head of a new French low-cost airline to discuss a possible new service between Paris and Tahiti.

A protest march is planned in Tahiti to coincide with Saturday's march in the Marquesas Islands against plans to expand large-scale fishing in French Polynesia.

The French Polynesian mayor convicted for corruption last week has decided to lodge an appeal in France's highest court.

The appeal court in French Polynesian has again tried the Honotua cable contract case after the criminal court had acquitted all ten accused of favouritism.

The appeal court in French Polynesia has given a one-year prison sentence to a local mayor for corruption.

The Chinese carrier Hainan Airlines plans to have three charter flights to Tahiti this month as part of its first foray into French Polynesia.

A French Polynesian assembly member Valentina Cross has been sentenced for defaming a former vice president during a radio debate.

The prosecutor in French Polynesia says so far this year more than 43 kilogrammes of methamphetamine has been seized.