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Tahiti phantom job appeal trial cleared to proceed
French Polynesia's court of appeal has rejected five constitutional challenges at the start of this week's case of more than 40 people convicted for being part of a network of...
Updated at 4:38 pm on 31 October 2012
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Tahiti union leader Legayic detained for alleged corruption
A leading French Polynesian union leader, Cyril Legayic, has been detained for alleged corruption. Public radio in Tahiti reports that police have taken him into custody for allegedly accepting money...
Updated at 12:19 pm on 31 October 2012
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April and May confirmed as French Polynesia election dates
France has decided that the two rounds of French Polynesia's territorial election will be held in April and May. The French overseas territories minister, Victorin Lurel, gave the dates of...
Updated at 7:40 am on 27 October 2012
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French Polynesia mayor detained in corruption probe
Reports from French Polynesia say the mayor of Fakarava has been detained in Tahiti. Howard Vairaaroa is being investigated for alleged corruption on the atoll, which used to be a...
Updated at 7:38 am on 27 October 2012
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French Polynesia election expected in March and April
French Polynesia's territorial election is expected to be held in March and April. The French overseas territories minister, Victorin Lurel, has told the National Assembly that Paris will closely adhere...
Updated at 4:07 pm on 25 October 2012
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Polls should wait for trial outcome, says Tahiti leader
French Polynesia's president says elections originally due early next year should be held off until the long-running trials and appeals of his rivals have run their course. Oscar Temaru made...
Updated at 3:15 pm on 22 October 2012
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French Polynesia to deliver OPT verdict in January
French Polynesia's criminal court will deliver its verdict in mid-January in an alleged corruption case at French Polynesia's OPT telecommunications company. The court proceedings wrapped up last week and centred...
Updated at 6:43 am on 8 October 2012
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Five-year jail term sought for Tahiti's Flosse in OPT trial
The prosecutor in French Polynesia's OPT corruption case has demanded that a former president, Gaston Flosse, be jailed for five years. The prosecutor also wants a French advertising executive Hubert...
Updated at 4:54 am on 5 October 2012
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Haddad free to leave Tahiti OPT trial
French Polynesia's criminal court has decided that a key suspect in a high-profile corruption case, Hubert Haddad, is free to return to Paris. His lawyer applied for the French advertising...
Updated at 11:52 am on 4 October 2012
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Haddad returns to Tahiti court for OPT trial
The high-profile French Polynesian corruption court case centering on the OPT telecommunications company has continued despite the heart problems experienced by a key accused, the French advertising executive, Hubert Haddad.
Updated at 2:30 pm on 3 October 2012
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Haddad illness imperils OPT trial in Tahiti
Heart problems of a key accused have put in doubt the continuation of the trial of 15 people implicated in a high-profile French Polynesian corruption case. Hubert Haddad was rushed...
Updated at 6:32 pm on 2 October 2012
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Haddad taken to hospital amid Tahiti OPT trial
A key accused in French Polynesia's trial of alleged corrupt affairs of the publicly owned OPT telecommunications company has been taken to hospital. Hubert Haddad, who is a French advertising...
Updated at 12:12 pm on 2 October 2012
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Tahiti's Flosse rejects OPT links in corruption trial
French Polynesia's Tahoeraa Huiraatira says its leader Gaston Flosse had at no time any influence on the actions of the publicly owned OPT telecommunications company. The party issued the statement...
Updated at 12:14 pm on 1 October 2012
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Flosse trial relocation bid poised to be rejected by French court
Reports from French Polynesia say France's highest court is poised to reject a bid by the veteran politician Gaston Flosse to have two major corruption trials moved away from Tahiti...
Updated at 7:02 pm on 27 July 2012
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Tahiti opposition mocks Temaru's Australian backer
The French Polynesian opposition Tahoeraa Huiraatira has issued a statement, mocking an Australian businessman Clive Palmer after he decided to fund a Tahiti team to join a dragon boat race...
Updated at 1:31 pm on 24 July 2012
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Tahiti's Flosse upset with Temaru's Australian backer
A French Polynesian member of the French Senate, Gaston Flosse, has hit out at comments made by an Australian businessman who helped sponsor last week's Club de Madrid conference in...
Updated at 2:03 pm on 11 July 2012
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Tahiti plea to Paris for economic help
The French Polynesian members of the French legislature have written a joint letter to Paris asking for help with what they describe as the catastrophic financial situation of the territory's...
Updated at 7:01 pm on 4 July 2012
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Tahiti land tribunal plan to get fresh French boost
Reports from Paris say the French justice minister, Christiane Taubira, has assured the visiting French Polynesian president, Oscar Temaru, that a special effort will be made to set up a...
Updated at 12:43 pm on 27 June 2012
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UMP loses in New Caledonia, Tahoeraa sweeps Tahiti seats
In the second round of the election of a new French National Assembly, the UMP in New Caledonia has lost both its seats to a rival anti-independence party. In French...
Updated at 6:14 am on 18 June 2012
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French Pacific gets ready for final vote for French National Assembly
Campaigning is about to end in the French Pacific for this weekend's second round in the election of a new French National Assembly. Based on the first round results, the...
Updated at 7:13 pm on 14 June 2012
