New Caledonia

A New Caledonian Kanak pro-independence group is still undecided if it will tell its supporters to vote in the independence referendum later this year.

A former French prime minister Manuel Valls has been appointed as the French National Assembly's Law Commission rapporteur for the planned change of the electoral law for New Caledonia.

A weekend Congress of New Caledonia's pro-independence FLNKS movement has failed to elect a nominal president as the territory gears up for this year's independence referendum.

A New Caledonia airline hopes its first charter flight between the Chinese city of Hangzhou and Noumea will be the start of a regular service.

The authorities in New Caledonia's northern province are alarmed at the vandalism directed towards health professionals and pharmacies.

New Caledonia's pro-independence FLNKS movement says it wants to close its ranks at the weekend Congress preparing the independence referendum later this year.

The French overseas minister Annick Girardin has called for a political dialogue in New Caledonia to make this year's independence referendum a success.

The Fiji Meteorological Service says Tropical Cyclone Fehi is expected to dissipate over the next 24 hours and eventually die out.

The first tropical cyclone for this season Fehi is a slow moving one, located to the northwest of New Caledonia.

New Caledonia's main anti-independence party has expressed its support for local corrections staff as their colleagues in France have taken industrial action.

A tropical cyclone that has been named Fehi is looming to the northwest of New Caledonia.

The public prosecutor in New Caledonia has given details about a shooting incident after motorists near St Louis heard gunfire.

New Caledonia's Congress has approved the budget for 2018 after last year's political crisis prevented the territory from approving it on time.

A shark has seriously injured a diver off New Caledonia.

The government of New Caledonia has tabled its long-term crime prevention and security plan which focuses on curbing alcohol consumption, especially among the young.

Three men have been sentenced to prison in New Caledonia for smuggling 578 kilogrammes of cocaine on board their yacht.

A strike has been called by unionised staff at New Caledonia's publicly owned OPT telecommunications company for next Tuesday.