French Polynesia

The trial in French Polynesia of a businessman and a union leader for alleged corruption has been set for 4 February.

French Polynesia's international airline has cancelled the charter flight from China planned this week for China's New Year holiday.

The mayor of Bora Bora in French Polynesia is pushing for a ban of large cruise ships from entering its lagoon from 2022.

French Polynesia's president Edouard Fritch says he has no date for when the Chinese company Tahiti Nui Ocean Foods will start work on its planned fish farm on Hao.

A French Polynesian opposition politician says he will ask the French president Emmanuel Macron that the former French nuclear weapons test site at Moruroa be cleaned up.

French Polynesia's pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru says the smoke from Australia's bushfires is concrete evidence that fallout from nuclear tests affected islands such as Tahiti.

The French overseas minister is due in French Polynesia early next month to help prepare President Emmanuel Macron's Tahiti visit in April.

Five local bids have been submitted to build accommodation units at the planned Tahitian Village complex, says French Polynesia's government.

Only about half of French Polynesia's people of working age have a job, according to figures just released for 2018.

A Chinese fishing company accused of marine pollution in French Polynesia says its fishing boat discharged hundreds of litres of liquids, including fuel, for safety reasons.

French Polynesia's Rowing Federation hopes for sea rowing to be added as an Olympic sport and to be hosted in Tahiti as part of the 2024 Games in Paris.

The family of a French Polynesian journalist who vanished in 1997 hopes a court case about his disappearance will be opened this year.

Seven men have appeared in court in French Polynesia accused of being part of a methamphetaime distribution network.

Reports from Tahiti say the public prosecutor has opened an investigation into the alleged abuse of public funds by top politicians of French Polynesia's Tahoeraa Huiraatira party.

A man has been taken in for questioning in French Polynesia over his possible role in this year's first fatal road accident.

French Polynesia veteran politician Gaston Flosse has failed in his appeal to the electoral commission to be registered as a voter in Papeete.

A mayor has been elected in the French Polynesian commune of Papara for the weeks remaining until the March municipal elections.

Witnesses are being sought in French Polynesia following the first fatal road accident of the year.

French Polynesia's ruling Tapura Huiraatira party will contest the mayoralty of the largest town with two candidates, suggesting a further split in its ranks.

Veterans deployed to the Mururoa Atoll in French Polynesia will wait another two months to find out whether their children and grandchildren may be genetically impacted by nuclear radiation.