French Polynesia

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.

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.