French Polynesia

The Pacific Community says it's concerned about outbreaks of dengue fever in the region becoming harder to combat.

The French overseas minister Annick Girardin today begins a five-day official visit to French Polynesia - her first since assuming office.

French Polynesia's pro-independence opposition party has launched a petition asking France to assume full responsibility for its nuclear weapons tests in the Pacific.

The French Polynesian government has again hit out at Gaston Flosse after he announced he had deal with a company in the United Arab Emirates for billions of dollars worth of investment.

The French High Commission in French Polynesia has published the dates for candidates to register for this year's territorial election.

More talks are planned between the French Polynesian president Edouard Fritch and unions over the government's pension reform.

French Polynesia's former president Gaston Flosse says he will go to France's highest court if necessary to be able to run in the territorial election in April.

French Polynesia's president Edouard Fritch says plans to meet potential tourism investors from the United Arab Emirates fell over.

French Polynesia's health ministry has released figures which show that in the past 15 years more than 9500 people have been diagnosed with cancer.

There is controversy in French Polynesia over who is allowed to represent France's ruling En Marche party in Tahiti.

French Polynesia's former president Gaston Flosse says he has signed an agreement with an investor in the United Arab Emirates who is poised to fund billions of dollars worth of projects in Tahiti.

The French government has been presented with proposals to approve new regulations about medically induced abortions for French Polynesia and New Caledonia.

There is strong opposition in French Polynesia to the government's pension reform which would raise the retirement age from 60 to 62.

There is dismay in French Polynesia over the fatal mauling of a giant tortoise from the Galapagos islands.

A rally has been called in French Polynesia against the proposed hike of the retirement age.

The French National Assembly is due to discuss a proposed law change aimed at easing the sale of collectively owned land in overseas territories, including French Polynesia.

The French Polynesian president Edouard Fritch has agreed to meet a union delegation after threats of protests and blockades.

The French military has owned up to spilling a chemical which turned a river in French Polynesia fluorescent green.

A 21 year-old French Polynesian man has been given a six-month jail sentence for assaulting a policeman.