French Polynesia

French Polynesia's former president Gaston Flosse and a leading pearl producer Robert Wan have been acquitted of corruption charges over the purchase of an atoll at an overvalued price.

A bid has been made in French Polynesia's criminal court to move a case of alleged fraud by removal companies to France.

The leader of French Polynesia's Tahoeraa Huiraatira Party Gaston Flosse says he has prepared to forgive his erstwhile opponent Nicolas Sarkozy in the territory's interests.

French Polynesia's ruling party has lashed out at a former president Gaston Flosse after his party decided to align itself with Nicolas Sarkozy and his bid to regain the French presidency next year.

A French Polynesian nuclear tests veterans organisation says from next year it will assist more claimants for compensation for radiation-induced illnesses.

French Polynesia's Tahoeraa Huiraatira Party says it is about to sign a convention with France's Republicans to increase French nuclear compensation payments.

Reports from Tahiti say investigators have detained French Polynesia's former president Gaston Flosse and the president of the assembly Marcel Tuihani for questioning.

One of French Polynesia's members of the French Assembly has changed parliamentary group, in an apparent reversal of his party's position towards presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy.

A French court has given the former head of French Polynesia's disbanded GIP militia an 18-month jail sentence for abuse of public funds.

French Polynesia's opposition Tahoeraa Huiraatira Party says President Edouard Fritch addressed the United Nations only as the leader of his own party and not on behalf of the so-called pro-autonomy…

The French Polynesian president has addressed the territory's first Economic Forum, telling it that the government wants dynamic development in all sectors.

The French Polynesian president has addressed the territory's first Economic Forum, telling it that the government wants dynamic development in all sectors.

Former president Gaston Flosse and his partner Pascale Haiti have been fined for the appropriation of chinaware from the presidential palace.

French Polynesia's president says a proposed revision of the territory's autonomy statute will be tabled before the end of the year.

The mayor of Tumara'a in French Polynesia Cyril Tetuanui has appeared in court for alleged abuse of a tendering process to build gymnasiums.

France has recognised a link between its nuclear weapon tests in the South Pacific and the illness of a woman who never visited the test sites at Moruroa and Fangataufa.

French Polynesia's president Edouard Fritch has told a UN decolonisation debate in New York that the world would know if France was a colonial state with a colonial attitude.

French Polynesia's president Edouard Fritch says he understands why France is boycotting the UN debate on the decolonisation of French Polynesia.