French Polynesia

Investigators in French Polynesia have released a former works minister Albert Solia and a top government official after holding them for nearly 40 hours for questioning.

More protests are planned in the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia against plans for large scale fishing.

Pro-independence politicians in French Polynesia have again expressed their disappointment at France boycotting this month's decolonisation discussions at the UN in New York.

A French Polynesian municipality has been ordered to pay $US200,000 over the drowning death of a paddle boarder 6 years ago.

Six people in French Polynesia have been taken in for questioning for alleged favouritism over the attribution of a public works contract.

The next French Polynesian election is set to go ahead in two rounds in April and May.

The public prosecutor in French Polynesia says the men caught with 500 kilogrammes of cocaine last weekend will be tried in Papeete.

Police in French Polynesia have taken a further five people into custody in an ongoing probe of a methamphetamine distribution network.

The operator of an illegal gambling establishment in French Polynesia has been given a two-year jail sentence and fined $US150,000.

French Polynesia's pro-independence opposition says given his record it's ridiculous that the territory's president will have a private audience with the Pope to discuss climate change.

There is concern in French Polynesia that competition on domestic airline routes could be to the disadvantage of smaller islands.

French Polynesia public sector workers have joined French unions in a mass protest at planned cuts.

Reports from French Polynesia say the yacht caught with more than 400 kilogrammes of cocaine in the Marquesas islands had come from Venezuela.

Hundreds of people in French Polynesia's Marquesas Islands have taken to the street in protest at plans to expand fishing operations in the area.

The French Polynesian president Edouard Fritch says he has asked the French UN ambassador to join him at next year's decolonisation talks about Tahiti in New York.

The leader of French Polynesia's Tahoeraa Huiraatira Party Gaston Flosse says he can stand in next year's territorial election according to advice from his lawyer.

Police in French Polynesia have seized more than 400 kilogrammes of cocaine on a yacht arriving in the Marquesas.

French Polynesia's social welfare agency is set to go to the European Court of Human Rights over payments for victims of France's nuclear weapons tests.

Customs officials in French Polynesia have seized more than seven kilogrammes of poached turtle meat during a check in the port of Papeete.