New Caledonia

Pacific fisheries experts are meeting to co-ordinate community-based programmes for managing the region's coastal fisheries. Audio

Special commissions in New Caledonia have begun vetting electoral rolls amid claims that thousands of people are on them although they are ineligible to vote.

The head of the pro-independence Caledonian Union, Daniel Goa, says in two weeks he will decide who will be the territory's president.

France's highest court has ruled that those eligible to vote in New Caledonia's provincial elections must have been enrolled since 1998.

There are calls for urgent action to end New Caledonia's political crisis which has left the territory without a president for now more than two months.

The last of the four men who escaped from New Caldonia's prison last April is back in custody.

The French High Commissioner to New Caledonia, Vincent Bouvier, says the political impasse in the territory is not acceptable.

An aid programme working to improve the quality of justice in Oceania is looking to use a more technological approach to supporting courts in the region.

France's highest administrative court has dismissed a request to annul the result of New Caledonia's territorial election last May.

The leader of the Caledonia Together Party says the electoral system should be changed to help end the political impasse.