French Polynesia

Hundreds of passengers in French Polynesia risk being stranded because of a strike by Air France.

French Polynesia's Tahoeraa Huiraatira Party has lost another assembly member who is siding with the ruling majority.

The criminal court in French Polynesia has acquitted all suspects in the case over the Honotua cable contract.

French Polynesia's ruling party has roundly dismissed a proposal to turn the territory into an associated state of France.

French Polynesia's former president, Gaston Flosse, has hit out at the judicial system, questioning the integrity of those in charge of the prosecution in the territory.

Descendants of Chinese migrants to French Polynesia on Sunday marked the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the first Chinese workers in Tahiti.

French Polynesia's pro-independence politicians, led by Oscar Temaru, have briefly seized the podium of the assembly to unfurl a banner which said 'Welcome to the National Assembly of Maohi Nui'.

The appeal court in French Polynesia has heard the case against a former top politician, Hiro Tefaarere, who last year was given a jail sentence for attempting to misuse public funds.

French Polynesia's disgraced former president, Gaston Flosse, and his partner, Pascale Haiti, are expected to face the criminal court in Tahiti over the alleged theft of china from the presidency.

Police investigators in French Polynesia have searched offices of the territorial assembly in a probe into alleged phantom jobs.

The French Polynesian president has appeared in the criminal court in Tahiti on charges of exerting undue influence.

The French supreme court has annulled the 2014 appointment of a French Polynesian minister, Tea Frogier.

Lawyers for French Polynesia's disgraced former president, Gaston Flosse, are reportedly considering an appeal against a ruling that would prevent him from standing for office at the next election.

The French justice ministry has quashed hopes of French Polynesia's disgraced former president to be able to stand for office in two years.

French Polynesia's pro-independence opposition is planning to join international action to pursue France for alleged crimes against humanity.

French Polynesia's disgraced president will not appeal against last week's conviction in the appeal court which gave him a suspended 18-month jail term for misuse of public funds over his invasion of…

A orange alert remains in force in the western parts of French Polynesia as strong winds and rain continue.

French Polynesia's court of appeal has given a suspended 18-month jail term to a former president Gaston Flosse for misuse of public funds over his invasion of privacy.

Cyclone Yalo continues to move southeast across French Polynesia, but is weakening and is expected to fizzle out over the course of today.

An umbrella group of French environmental organisations has condemned the announcements made in Tahiti by the French president Francois Hollande about helping nuclear weapons test victims.