French Polynesia

Plans to introduce a 20,000 franc note in the French Pacific have been abandoned partly because of concern about money-laundering.

French Polynesia's international airport recorded an additional 60,000 international travellers last year, which is said to have exceeded expectations.

Reports from French Polynesia say work on the delayed Chinese fish farm on Hao atoll is set to begin in earnest in about three months as the investors again seek to modify the project.

France has decided to exclude its overseas territories such as French Polynesia from the general debate to confront the country's social and economic crisis.

Maritime authorities in French Polynesia have identified a Chinese ship as the source of hundreds of unused plastic bags washed up on Hiva Oa in the Marquesas Islands.

The appeal court in French Polynesia has heard the case of the former mayor of Mahina, Emile Vernaudon, who was last year convicted for the abuse of public funds with the running of a local radio…

Unsuccessful candidates of French Polynesia's opposition Tahoeraa Huiraatira are set to get their campaign expenses reimbursed by the party's leading assembly member.

Civil society groups in French Polynesia have backed a proposal to ban mobile phones in schools.

Several inmates in French Polynesia will get a bigger compensation package after a successful appeal over their detention conditions.

A system malfunction in French Polynesia has triggered a false tsunami alert.

Thousands of French Polynesians have turned out for a celebration to mark Miss Tahiti's victory of the Miss France beauty pageant.

A total of 21 people in French Polynesia will have to stand trial for their role in a methamphetamine network which was broken up at the beginning of the year.

A man has been jailed in French Polynesia for burgling the home of a dead assembly member while his family was attending his wake.

French Polynesian unions say they want materials to build the South Pacific's biggest fish farm to be shipped via Papeete.

French Polynesia's pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru is to stand trial in the criminal court in June for allegedly misusing public funds.

Air Tahiti Nui has been voted the best airline to the South Pacific in a survey by the US magazine Global Traveler.