French Polynesia

An appeals court has ordered French Polynesia's former president, Gaston Flosse, and 12 others to jointly repay $US3.3 million they misspent on so-called phantom jobs.

French Polynesian leaders have addressed the UN decolonisation committee in New York, with the government and the opposition split on the question of sovereignty.

Police in French Polynesia have seized a record 21 kilogrammes of methamphetamine.

A former bailiff in French Polynesia has been charged with defrauding an elderly woman of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Talks have started between the Cook Islands, French Polynesia and Samoa on possible airline connections between the three countries.

A proposal has been made for the three French territories in the Pacific to modernise their relationship and hold a summit to that end.

Hundreds of kilos of poached turtle meat has been seized in French Polynesia.

A French Polynesian member of the French Senate has flown to Saint Martin in the Caribbean to help assess the damage caused by Hurricane Irma earlier this month.

French Polynesia's president has used his powers to strike off a doctor at Tahiti's public hospital because of a drug conviction.

The French Polynesian government has taken issue with the defence arguments in a trial this week of a man convicted and jailed for 12-years for beating his wife to death.

The French Polynesia body looking at the aftermath of nuclear weapons tests by France has held its first meeting since the death of Bruno Barrillot earlier this year.

A former bailiff in French Polynesia has been detained for alleged drug trafficking.

A senior French government representative has praised French Polynesia for its efforts to produce renewable energy.

France's top administrative court is being advised to reject a nuclear compensation claim lodged by French Polynesia's social welfare agency.

The process to compensate Tahiti's victims of France's nuclear weapons tests is expected to resume by the end of the month.

French Polynesia's pro-independence party has held a rally urging France to respect United Nations resolutions.

Former president of French Polynesia and leader of the pro-independence movement, Oscar Temaru, was a surprise observer at the 48th Pacific Islands Forum summit in Apia last week.

Another French Polynesian assembly member has decided to quit the once dominant anti-independence Tahoeraa Huiraatira party of Gaston Flosse.

Four people detained in French Polynesia following a drug seizure have been charged with drug trafficking and remanded in prison.