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Tahoeraa's Tahiti headquarters to be demolished
The French Polynesian government has ordered the demolition of the headquarters of the traditionally dominant Tahoeraa Huiraatira Party of Gaston Flosse.
Updated at 12:11 pm on 9 February 2016
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Assembly walkout in Tahiti over video
The ruling majority group in French Polynesia's territorial assembly has walked out of the chamber in protest at the pro-independence opposition showing a short video about rare earths.
Updated at 5:54 pm on 29 January 2016
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Two decades since last nuclear tests in Pacific
It appears most people have forgotten about the date of France's last nuclear test in the Pacific, the editor of a magazine in Tahiti says.
Updated at 9:14 pm on 28 January 2016
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Flosse lawyers seek quashing of Tahiti's OPT affair
Defence lawyers for French Polynesia's disgraced former president Gaston Flosse say the OPT affair can no longer be taken up in court to be tried.
Updated at 3:23 pm on 27 January 2016
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Tahiti leader wants zero tolerance for corruption
French Polynesia's president Edouard Fritch has told senior public service managers to have zero tolerance for corruption.
Updated at 1:35 pm on 19 January 2016
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Appeal against former Tahiti minister's acquittal
The prosecution in French Polynesia says it will appeal against the acquittal of the head of a public works agency, Bruno Marty, who risked a six-month jail sentence for misspending public funds.
Updated at 12:06 pm on 18 January 2016
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Tahiti assembly majority consolidates
French Polynesia's assembly groups making up the ruling majority have formally merged into a single group known as RMA.
Updated at 12:17 pm on 15 January 2016
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Tahiti's Flosse loses ineligibility appeal
France's highest court has rejected a bid by French Polynesia's former president, Gaston Flosse, to lift his ineligibility for public office.
Updated at 1:39 pm on 14 January 2016
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Fritch due to launch Tahiti party next month
Reports from French Polynesia say the president Edouard Fritch and his supporters will launch a new political party at an inaugural congress on February the 20th.
Updated at 1:33 pm on 11 January 2016
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Tahiti rulers won't back Temaru's Paris bid
French Polynesia's dominant political group says it won't support a bid by the veteran pro-independence politician Oscar Temaru to stand for the French presidency next year.
Updated at 2:16 pm on 7 January 2016
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Temaru says Tahiti autonomy is a failure
French Polynesia's pro-independence opposition leader, Oscar Temaru, says he wants to stand for the French presidency next year because Tahiti's autonomy has not worked.
Updated at 7:47 am on 6 January 2016
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Tahiti party scathing about leadership
The party of the disgraced former French Polynesian president Gaston Flosse has again hit out at the president over the Mahana Beach resort project, which is estimated to cost in excess of two billion US dollars.
Updated at 1:26 pm on 3 January 2016
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PFF urges France to release Couraud files
The Pacific Freedom Forum has called on France to release top-secret state documents pertinent to the 1997 disappearance of a French Polynesian journalist.
Updated at 3:40 pm on 17 December 2015
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Tahiti majority forms new RMA group
French Polynesia's president has presented his newly formed assembly majority under a new label in an apparent merger of two of the main parties.
Updated at 2:43 pm on 11 December 2015
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Tahiti defection gives Fritch majority
A French Polynesian opposition assembly member has joined the group led by the president, Edouard Fritch, which gives him a majority.
Updated at 1:36 pm on 9 December 2015
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Sachet quits Tahiti's Tahoeraa
A French Polynesian assembly member, Isabelle Sachet, has quit the Tahoeraa Huiraatira Party to join the group led by the president.
Updated at 11:33 am on 3 December 2015
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Mass tourism needed to save Tahiti economy - Flosse
The leader of French Polynesia's biggest political party says huge investments in tourism are the only way to save the territory's economy.
Updated at 7:06 am on 2 December 2015
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Flosse's spy agency case back in court
The appeal court in French Polynesia has heard the case of a former president Gaston Flosse who appealed against his 18-month suspended prison sentence for abusing public funds by running a spy agency.
Updated at 11:20 am on 21 November 2015
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Dubois fails to annul Tahiti election result
France's Constitutional Council has rejected a bid by an unsuccessful French Polynesian candidate for a French Senate seat to have the election voided.
Updated at 12:16 pm on 20 November 2015
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French Polynesia atoll sale case deferred
The appeal court in French Polynesia has deferred a fresh trial over the controversial 2002 sale of Anuanuraro atoll until February the 15th.
Updated at 8:21 pm on 19 November 2015
