French Polynesia

Tropical Cyclone Bart is weakening and quickly moving away from the southern Cook Islands.

French Polynesia's president has now confirmed that the finance minister Nuihau Laurey has tendered his resignation effective tomorrow.

The French overseas minister says compensation after floods in January could reach just over $US3million.

French Polynesia's public broadcaster says the Tahoeraa Huiraatira Party has approached the National Front of France as the country is heading for presidential and then parliamentary elections.

The international airport in French Polynesia has reopened after flooding closed it yesterday afternoon.

Torrential rain in French Polynesia has forced the closure of the international airport on Tahiti - the second time in a month.

A firefighter in French Polynesia has died trying to clear debris in torrential rain that has hit the Society islands and the Tuamotus.

An assembly member of French Polynesia's Tahoeraa Huiraatira Party has vacated her seat.

A benefit concert has been held in Paris for the victims of last month's floods in French Polynesia.

The French Senate has joined the National Assembly and unanimously approved an amendment to the French nuclear compensation law.

The criminal court in French Polynesia has given a one-year jail sentence to the mayor of Tumara'a Cyril Tetuanui for corruption.

An Australian film has won the Grand Prize at the International Pacific Documentary Film Festival FIFO in French Polynesia.

France's National Front says it would like French Polynesia to hold a referendum in 10 to 15 years on it becoming an associated country of France.

There is concern in French Polynesia that more people could contract leptospirosis after the heavy rain in recent weeks.

The prosecution in French Polynesia has called for a one-year jail sentence for a former president Gaston Flosse for taking chinaware from the presidential palace.

The French Polynesian president Edouard Fritch has hailed as historic the French decision to remove the term negligible risk from the nuclear compensation law.

The public broadcaster in French Polynesia says it will add more FM transmitters to its radio network after complaints about closing its AM frequency.

The criminal court in French Polynesia has given a man a five-year jail sentence - three of the years suspended - for burning a police car.

There has been a reserved response in French Polynesia to France's plan to ease compensation terms for victims of the nuclear weapons tests.