French Polynesia

A firefighters strike at French Polynesia's international airport has entered its tenth day with no resolution in sight.

A French Polynesian environmentalist helping proponents of a floating island in the territory says there's likely to be little harm to the environment.

Striking firefighters in French Polynesia are being threatened with jail sentences if they fail to comply with French orders to maintain a basic roster at Tahiti's airport.

Reports from French Polynesia say young people on the atoll of Faaite in the Tuamotus have been consuming cocaine since a yacht with a huge cargo of the drug ran on the atoll reef last month.

The end of French Polynesia's airport firefighters strike has been put off in Tahiti amid a dispute between two unions.

French Polynesia's Tetiaroa island is awaiting the newly-wed sister of the Duchess of Cambridge, Pippa Middleton, and her husband James Matthews for their honeymoon.

Air Tahiti is continuing to finally fly hundreds of travellers stranded by a five-day firefighters strike across French Polynesia.

A protocol has reportedly been signed in French Polynesia to end part of a firefighters strike which has crippled domestic air travel.

A firefighters strike in French Polynesia has prompted Air Tahiti to cancel most internal flights for today.

French Polynesia has again called on the United Nations to take the territory off the decolonisation list - four years after the UN General Assembly put Tahiti and its islands back on the list.

The former head of French Polynesia's GIP militia Rere Puputauki has been given a two-year prison sentence for abuse of trust over a failed property deal.

The party of France's new president has largely ignored applicants in overseas territories aspiring to contest next month's National Assembly election.

Flight schedules in French Polynesia keep being disrupted because of an unlimited strike by some airport firefighters.

France has a new overseas minister whose responsibilities include the French Pacific territories.

A firefighters strike at French Polynesia's airports has forced the domestic carrier Air Tahiti to cancel some flights.

French Polynesia's president Edouard Fritch has given his full backing to the new French president Emmanuel Macron, saying there is a shared vision of how Tahiti can help Mr Macron's new strategy for…

French Polynesia's ruling party has strongly rejected claims of electoral fraud made by the Tahoeraa Huiraatira Party's leader.

Radio reports from French Polynesia say the planned purchase of a major hotel on Moorea by Samoa's Grey Investment Group has failed.

The leader of French Polynesia's Tahoeraa Huiraatira party says there has been electoral fraud in last weekend's French presidential election.