French Polynesia

A court in French Polynesia says it will give its verdict in a major tax fraud case involving the finance company Sofipac on January 15.

French Polynesia's once dominant Tahoeraa Huiraatira Party has lost another assembly member amid a continued rift within its ranks.

The French Polynesian president, Edouard Fritch, says French Polynesians expect France to change its approach on compensating victims of the French nuclear weapons tests.

French Polynesia's president, Edouard Fritch, has reiterated that there is political instability in the territory but says a dissolution of the assembly is not on the agenda.

A court in French Polynesia has heard a case brought by the president Edouard Fritch who claims that his predecessor, Gaston Flosse, is ineligible to be a party leader because of his criminal…

France has been accused of having a neo-colonial view in the way it treats prisoners in its overseas territories.

The French Polynesian president, Edouard Fritch, has appointed Nicole Sanquer as new youth minister in a shuffle aimed at strengthening his government's support in the assembly.

The French Polynesian president, Edouard Fritch, has removed two ministers for them to take up seats in the assembly as his administration struggles to pass a budget.

A French Polynesian delegate to the UN decolonisation discussions in New York says he hopes France won't boycott the upcoming meeting as it has done in the past.

France says it plans to extend its claim to continental shelves in French Polynesia by possibly up to several hundred thousand square kilometres.

The Solomon Islands prime minister, Manasseh Sogavare, has called on France to implement the decolonisation process for French Polynesia approved by the United Nations two years ago.

France is set to abolish roaming charges for communication with its overseas territories, including French Polynesia and New Caledonia.

A hearing has been postponed in French Polynesia in a court case brought by the president Edouard Fritch who claims that his predecessor, Gaston Flosse, is ineligible to be a party leader because of…

French Polynesia's appeal court has again deferred the civil case to compensate the public purse for expenses incurred by phantom jobs under former president Gaston Flosse.

New Zealand and French Polynesia have signed an amended air services agreement.

Thousands of French Polynesians marched against violence at the weekend, just days after a man was beaten to death on Bora Bora.

French Polynesia's President Edouard Fritch has made an eleventh hour appeal to Pacific Forum island leaders for full membership of the regional body.

French Polynesia's president Edouard Fritch has announced he is setting up his own political party.

French Polynesia's president Edouard Fritch has announced he is setting up his own political party.

A European explorer, Guy Delage, has been rescued in the Austral Islands in southern French Polynesia after his yacht sank off the island of Tubuai.