French Polynesia

A French Polynesian nuclear test veterans group has raised its concern that contaminated gravel is about to be used for road construction on Mangareva.

The French Polynesian president has thanked the visiting French education minister and the French state for the financial assistance towards sustaining the territory's education sector.

A petition has been launched in a bid to halt the planned resumption of phosphate mining on French Polynesia's Makatea atoll.

There have been two appeals in the case of a former French Polynesian president Gaston Flosse fined for taking chinaware from the presidential palace.

The US travel site Conde Nast has named The Brando in French Polynesia as the world's best resort.

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.