French Polynesia

The French body charged with compensating victims of France's nuclear weapons tests is expected to resume its work in September.

A domestic flight in French Polynesia made an unscheduled landing after smoke was detected on the ATR aircraft.

A French Polynesian group has approached BirdLife International for support to help protect Makatea's endemic pigeon, the rupe.

The government of French Polynesia has decided to close its tourism office in Russia.

This week's planned appeal court case in French Polynesia of three politicians convicted for abusing public funds has been deferred because of a lawyer's absence.

The French Polynesian mining minister has challenged opponents to renewed phosphate mining on Makatea to provide an alternative that could benefit its inhabitants.

The head of the Australian company, Avenir Makatea, which is seeking to resume phosphate mining in French Polynesia, says he wants the local people to decide.

French Polynesia's president visited Makatea atoll on Friday, where an Australian company hopes to resume controversial phosphate mining.

Environmentalists in French Polynesia are alarmed that Makatea atoll could be opened for phosphate mining.

A French Polynesian member of the French National Assembly says victims of French nuclear testing have already waited too long for compensation.

A pro-independence politician says the French Polynesian government's attempt to get the territory off the UN decolonisation list won't succeed. Audio

France's highest court has rejected a bid to convict former French Polynesian president Gaston Flosse and a leading pearl producer Robert Wan.

French Polynesia's education minister Nicole Sanquer has resigned in order to maintain her seat in the French National Assembly.

French Polynesia's pro-independence opposition claims France was aware its nuclear weapons tests were harmful while professing that they were clean. Audio

A Cook Islander has won what is being billed as the first coconut tree climbing world championship.