New Caledonia

With less than four months to go until New Caledonia's referendum on independence from France, the anti-independence Caledonia Together Party has again called for efforts to determine the territory's…

A strike forced New Caledonia's domestic airline to cancel all its flights yesterday.

The head of France's centre-right Republicans will go to New Caledonia in September - less than two months before the referendum on independence from France.

New Caledonia's Labour Party says it won't take part in the November referendum on independence from France.

A New Caledonian teenager has been given a three-and-a-half-year prison sentence for driving into a police officer and breaking his leg.

Figures released in New Caledonia show 39 police officers were injured in the first half of this year, most them while making arrests.

The Chinese President Xi Jinping is offering to host a meeting with Pacific leaders in Port Moresby ahead of the APEC leaders summit in November.

The French military says it will give priority to New Caledonia when new patrol boats come into service in the next decade.

A new report says prices in New Caledonia are on average 33 percent higher than in France.

A 77-year old man in New Caledonia was forced to travel in the luggage hold of a bus after it took off while he tried to get his bags.

A leading New Caledonian pro-independence politician has called for a balanced information campaign in the lead-up to the November referendum on independence from France.

The French prime minister Edouard Philippe has again insisted on the need for a dialogue In New Caledonia as it nears its independence referendum in November.

Three Pacific territories have been discussed at the latest meeting of the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonisation.

The United Nations says while preparations for New Caledonia's independence referendum are progressing well, the situation remains uncertain and fragile.

There has been another fire at the SLN mining site in Kouaoua in New Caledonia.

Several New Caledonian politicians are bound for Paris for talks about the referendum on independence from France.