French Polynesia

The criminal court in French Polynesia has thrown out the defamation case brought by a former president, Gaston Flosse, against two French journalists over a book and a 2013 article in the French…

A pro-independence politician in French Polynesia says the territory is poised for the moment France decides to join negotiations about self-determination.

French Polynesia's housing minister, Tearii Alpha, has warned the public that his Facebook identity has been hacked.

A French Polynesian candidate who failed to win a French Senate seat earlier this month wants the election outcome to be voided.

Authorities in French Polynesia will launch two inquiries from tomorrow into the outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease chikungunya, which affected tens of thousands of people from last October until…

A memorandum of understanding has been signed in French Polynesia to end a strike by independent nurses that lasted two weeks.

Tahiti's ousted football boss Reynald Temarii says he has ten days to appeal against a decision by FIFA which bans him for eight years in any role related to football.

French Polynesia's biggest political party, the Tahoeraa Huiraatira, is due to meet tonight to consider the removal of more than a dozen members.

French Polynesia's president, Edouard Fritch, has told the French foreign minister that he would like to put his territory at the centre of debates during the COP21 climate change conference in…

The French Polynesian government and Chinese investors have formally launched a massive aquaculture project on Hao atoll, expected to cost 1.5 billion US dollars.

French Polynesia's ruling Tahoeraa Huiraatira has lost its majority in the territorial assembly after 15 of its 38 members formed a new group within the assembly.

French Polynesia's ruling Tahoeraa Huiraatira Party has accused the president and his backers of harassment and blackmail in the lead-up to the next assembly meeting.

French Polynesia has elected the vice-president, Nuihau Laurey, and an assembly member, Lana Tetuanui, as the territory's two new members of the French Senate.

French Polynesia will today choose its two members of the French Senate in a re-run of last year's election which was annulled in February.

Charges have been dropped against French Polynesia's former president, Gaston Flosse, over the alleged misuse of power in the way he awarded a hospital contract a decade ago.

Independent nurses in French Polynesia have begun an indefinite strike because they say they have not been paid for several months.