New Caledonia

Organisers hope a conference on the Pacific's ancient Lapita people will help experts get up to date and fuel further research.

Agreement on New Caledonia's electoral roll for the independence vote is a step closer after a nearly unanimous vote in the French Senate.

The mayor of New Caledonia's capital has lost the support of her own party in the city council after an internal rebellion.

The Vanuatu Under 23 football team has won the inaugural Four Nations Friendship Cup after beating Fiji 1-0 in front of over 4000 fans in Port Vila.

A leading pro-independence politician in New Caledonia says globalisation has changed the concept of colonisation and therefore a fresh approach has to be found in charting the territory's future.

A planned auction of Kanak artefacts in Switzerland has been cancelled after questions were raised about their origin.

Vanuatu will look to maintain their pefect start at the Four Nation's Friendship Cup in Port Vila this afternoon.

Questions are being raised in New Caledonia about old Kanak artefacts due to be auctioned in Switzerland next week.

New Caledonian leaders have agreed on the make-up of the electoral roll for those eligible to vote in the independence referendum due by 2018.

A man in New Caledonia has accidentally shot dead his cousin on a hunting trip - the second fatal shooting incident in the the territory in the past month.

A veteran New Caledonian politician, Nidoish Naisseline, has died of cancer aged 69.

A nine-day bank strike in New Caledonia has ended after a deal was reached to increase employees' wages.

The European Human Rights Court has condemned France for the way it jailed an inmate in New Caledonia in 2011.

New Caledonian leaders are due in Paris this week for talks with the French prime minister, Manuel Valls, in a bid to resolve the dispute over who is allowed to vote in New Caledonai's independence…

The head of the Vale New Caledonia mining company says this year it may move out of the red for the first time since the seven-billion US dollar plant's launch.

The Secretariat of the Pacific Community says the chikungunya virus has now spread through half of the Pacific and is likely to reach non-affected countries in the region over the next five years.

A court in New Caledonia has overturned a decision by the president, Philippe Germain, to sack the assistants of three of his ministers.

Prisoners at New Caledonia's jail have reportedly set fire to mattresses at the territory's prison in a riot, which was reportedly put down by security forces within hours.

Three New Caledonian government ministers have taken the president, Philippe Germain, to court in Noumea in a bid to retain their assistants after he had them sacked.