French Polynesia

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.

The two top leaders of French Polynesia's ruling Tahoeraa Huiraatira Party have held their first meeting in five months in a bid to heal an unprecedented rift in its ranks.

French Polynesia's ruling party is set to seek the re-election of its two French Senate members who lost their seats this month.

The criminal court in French Polynesia has again deferred a case brought against the French High Commissioner, Lionel Beffre, over his refusal to execute a ruling by France's highest court.

France's highest court has rejected an attempt by a former French Polynesian president, Gaston Flosse, to throw out a 2008 assessment of misspending of public funds.