New Caledonia

A former president of New Caledonia, Harold Martin, has been given a six-month prison sentence over the improper allocation of a telecommunications contract.

The Caledonian Union has called for a broad stocktake after the Brazilian miner Vale announced it would sell its nickel asset in New Caledonia.

Six anti-independence parties in New Caledonia, including the National Rally, have unveiled a new front in a bid to avert independence from France in next year's referendum.

The largest bloc in New Caledonia's Congress has called for a new anti-independence front to contest next year's referendum on independence from France.

There's been a suggestion in New Caledonia to shift the territory one time zone to the east in order to have more daylight in the evening.

New Caledonia will introduce a sugar tax to counter obesity and diabetes.

New Caledonia's Southern Province president has indicated that the Brazilian miner Vale may well have no option but to sell its assets in New Caledonia's south to Chinese investors.

A weekend Congress of New Caledonia's pro-independence FLNKS movement has failed to agree on how to proceed should voters opt for independence from France next year.

New Caledonia's veteran anti-independence politician Pierre Frogier says it is up to the Southern Province how it deals with the Vale nickel plant, which has been put up for sale.

Doubt is being cast on the feasibility of the planned restructure of New Caledonia's loss making Vale nickel company, which its Brazilian owner has put up for sale.

Anti-corruption group Anticor has joined two high-profile investigations in New Caledonia as a so-called civil party.

Brazilian miner Vale has put its 95 percent stake in its New Caledonian nickel plant up for sale following years of huge losses.

The governments of New Caledonia and of the Southern Province say they will systematically lodge a complaint with police for every fire being lit on public land.