French Polynesia

The French Polynesian government is alarmed at the decision by Air Tahiti to drop 26 loss-making routes.

Four men are reported to be in custody in French Polynesia suspected of being involved in a methamphetamine smuggling operation last year.

The court in French Polynesia has declined to make a ruling in the case brought by the pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru against the prosecutor Herve Leroy.

The Pacific Conference of Churches has called for justice in French Polynesia including for veteran pro-independence politician and mayor, Oscar Temaru.

Another 194 people have been flown to French Polynesia on a French government-sponsored relief flight from Paris - the eighth such flight since the Covid-19 related shutdown of air services.

A march against injustice in French Polynesia has attracted about 1,000 people from around Tahiti.

French Polynesia's domestic airline has dropped more than half of its destinations from its network because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

French Polynesia's president Edouard Fritch plans to go to Paris next month in an effort to secure loans amounting to $US525 million to deal with the Covid-19 crisis.

A group of 27 French Polynesian residents has been repatriated from New Zealand, including the woman whose baby died after being rushed to Auckland.

The criminal court in French Polynesia has given a nine-year jail sentence to a man convicted for running a methamphetamine importation ring.

The administrative court in French Polynesia has ordered the French state to pay $US178,000 to a victim of the nuclear weapons tests in the South Pacific.

A Paris-based lawyer acting for French Polynesia's pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru has taken his client's treatment in Tahiti to France's High Council for the Judiciary.

There has been a rush on a hotel in French Polynesia selling its furnishings after it closed in May and let 190 staff go.

The airline French Bee says it will resume regular flights from France to French Polynesia in mid-July when quarantine restrictions will be lifted.

The case brought against the prosecutor in French Polynesia by pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru has been deferred by a week amid suggestions it could be transferred to France.

New Caledonia's largest pro-independence party has come out in support of French Polynesia's Oscar Temaru, who is in a clinch with the French judiciary.

Another 202 people have been flown to French Polynesia on a French government-sponsored relief flight from Paris - the seventh such flight since the Covid-19 related shutdown of air services.

French Polynesia's pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru has suspended his hunger strike launched five days ago in protest at the French judiciary.