French Polynesia

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.