French Polynesia

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…

A commemoration has been held in French Polynesia marking the 100th anniversary of the first telegraphic link between Tahiti and France.

Sea Shepherd French Polynesia is calling on the public to boycott the territory's only dolphin centre in Moorea.

French Polynesia's tourism minister says that after more than a decade of planning and legal problems, signing a contract for the Mahana Beach Resort is a significant achievement.

French Polynesia's tourism minister says news that a US$2 billion tourism project on Tahiti will go ahead is significant for the territory's economy.

French Polynesia's assembly has approved US$8 million in funds to help rebuild parts of Tahiti badly damaged by floods last week.

An agreement has been signed in French Polynesia to go ahead with the huge Mahana Beach apartment and hotel project on Tahiti.

The Pacific Freedom Forum has called on France to release top-secret state documents pertinent to the 1997 disappearance of a French Polynesian journalist.

The French overseas minister has announced the release of funds to help the victims of last weekend's floods in French Polynesia.

Talks have been held in French Polynesia to advance the reconversion of former French military bases on Tahiti which were closed in the last decade.

A person is reported missing in French Polynesia after the eastern part of Tahiti was struck by heavy rain.

French Polynesia's government has suspended all imports of chilled and frozen poultry meat and other poultry-based products from France.

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.

The French Polynesian president has admitted that his territory is also among heavy polluters whose emissions should be halved.

The leader of French Polynesia's biggest political party says huge investments in tourism are the only way to save the territory's economy.

A suspicious bag at French Polynesia's main airport prompted a brief closure of the airport.

The French Polynesian president says he is convinced the Pacific Island countries will be heard at the COP21 climate conference due to open in Paris next week.