French Polynesia

French Polynesia's president Edouard Fritch says Tahiti is ready to host a broad conference on the territory's challenges as outlined in the campaign of the new French president.

Four species of endangered birds in the Pacific are beginning to replenish, following considerable conservation efforts.

One of French Polynesia's outgoing French National Assembly members has retracted his appeal and accepted his sentence for embezzlement.

French Polynesia's new pro-independence member of the French National Assembly says he plans to form or join a group of parliamentarians made up of politicians from France's overseas territories.

The two candidates of the anti-independence Caledonia Together Party have won the territory's two seats in the French National Assembly.

A leaked letter in French Polynesia suggests the Tahoeraa Huiraatira Party of Gaston Flosse is in breach of party financing rules.

The party of France's new president has decided to endorse the three candidates of French Polynesia's ruling Tapura Huiraatira party.

French Polynesia's assembly president says he resigned from the Tahoeraa Huiraatira party because of its leader Gaston Flosse.

French Polynesia's Tahoeraa Huiraatira party has chosen Teura Iriti as its new leader in the assembly.

The president of the French Polynesian assembly Marcel Tuihani has reportedly quit the Tahoeraa Huiraatira party led by Gaston Flosse over policy differences.

A French Polynesian candidate in the French election Moana Greig has been cleared in an alleged embezzlement case.

An unsuccessful French Polynesian anti-independence candidate has called on his backers to vote for the rival pro-independence candidate in the French National Assembly election.

French Polynesians have given strong support to candidates of the ruling Tapura Huiraatira party in the first round of the French National Assembly election.

A firefighters strike at French Polynesia's international airport has entered its tenth day with no resolution in sight.

A French Polynesian environmentalist helping proponents of a floating island in the territory says there's likely to be little harm to the environment.

Striking firefighters in French Polynesia are being threatened with jail sentences if they fail to comply with French orders to maintain a basic roster at Tahiti's airport.

Reports from French Polynesia say young people on the atoll of Faaite in the Tuamotus have been consuming cocaine since a yacht with a huge cargo of the drug ran on the atoll reef last month.

The end of French Polynesia's airport firefighters strike has been put off in Tahiti amid a dispute between two unions.