French Polynesia

The party coming third in the first round of French Polynesia's elections has put forward its founder as candidate for president. Nicole Sanquer was nominated by her A Here Ia...

French Polynesia's pro-independence Tavini Huiraatira party has come out on top in the first round of the territorial elections. Audio

Voting has started in French Polynesia in the first round to elect a territorial assembly for a new five-year term.

Campaigning for French Polynesia's territorial elections has entered its final week.

The French High Commission has validated the seven lists contesting next month's territorial elections in French Polynesia.

Marine invasive species are an ecological and economic threat to Pacific nations, the founder of a New Zealand-based ocean conservation and science organisation says.

The multi-million-dollar tourism project the Tahitian Village in French Polynesia has finally been revived with new investors.

French Polynesia has filed an application to make the Marquesas Islands a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

French Polynesia is set to adopt a French law which increases criminal liability for offenders under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

The man accused of murdering French Polynesian journalist Jean-Pascal Couraud, who was widely known as JPK, has asked for permission to travel to France.

The incarceration rate in French Polynesia has remained about double that of mainland France last year.

France's highest court has revived French Polynesia's largest corruption case, which had been closed almost more than three years ago.

French Polynesia's pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru has accused the environment minister of defamation over seabed mining.

The leader of French Polynesia's Tavini Huiraatira party, Oscar Temaru, says he'll treat next year's election as if it was an independence referendum.

The French Polynesian assembly has adopted a formal declaration for a moratorium on any plan to allow seabed mining.

Two former government ministers in French Polynesia have formed a new political party ahead of next year's election.

The French judiciary has thrown out an alleged forgery and fraud case against the former French Polynesian president Gaston Flosse, relating to a property transaction in Paris.

France has opened its archives to the vast majority of documents related to its nuclear weapons tests in the South Pacific.

French Polynesia's president suggests the French constitution be modified to recognise the legacy of the nuclear weapons tests.