French Polynesia

Reports from French Polynesia say a French soldier who was found dead at the beginning of the week while on leave in Tahiti died of what appears to be a rare form of malaria.

The prosecution in French Polynesia's espionage trial has requested a two-year jail sentence for the disgraced former president, Gaston Flosse, for espionage and abuse of public funds.

The prosecution in French Polynesia's espionage trial has requested a one-year jail sentence for the disgraced former president, Gaston Flosse, for invading the privacy of rival politicians…

French Polynesia's criminal court has been told that the surveillance by a defunct espionage service was only conducted in public and was therefore legal.

The trial has open in French Polynesia's criminal court of eight people for their involvement in a now defunct espionage service.

The French Polynesian government has called off tomorrow's planned aid flight for victims of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu.

Divisions within French Polynesia's ruling party have deepened, with rival factions nominating different candidates for the May election of the territory's two members of the French Senate.

The criminal court in French Polynesia has heard the defamation case brought against two French journalists over a book and a 2013 article in the French newspaper, Le Monde.

The French Polynesian government wants to give Vanuatu cyclone victims 90,000 US dollars worth of materials.

The criminal court in French Polynesia has banned the mayor of Rangiroa from holding an office for a year as part of a sentence for corruption.

The French overseas minister, George Pau-Langevin says the 2010 nuclear compensation law needs to be revisited in view of the large number of claims.

A French court has ordered that the defence ministry make a compensation offer to a former military technician who fell ill after working on the nuclear weapons test site in French Polynesia.

The French overseas minister, George Pau-Langevin, has signed a range of contracts with the French Polynesian president, Edouard Fritch, worth nearly 200 million US dollars.

A major search mission at sea in French Polynesia has been abandoned after the fisherman assumed to have fallen overboard was found to have been asleep.

The head of the law commission of the French National Assembly says French Polynesia's statute should be tidied up but in the main remain the same.

A security analyst says New Zealand could run into diplomatic problems with France because of revelations the government is spying on an unprecedented scale in the Pacific.

The French High Commission in French Polynesia has confirmed that a fresh election of the territory's two members of the French Senate will be held on May the 3rd.

There will be a fresh trial in French Polynesia over the controversial 2002 sale of Anuanuraro atoll by a leading pearl producer.

French Polynesia's pro-independence leader, Oscar Temaru, has sharply criticised the president of the French Assembly's law commission, Jean-Jacques Urvoas, who is on a visit to Tahiti.

The chikungunya epidemic in French Polynesia's Marquesas Islands is now starting to wane after a period of overwhelming virulence during January.