French Polynesia

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.

The latest census for French Polynesia shows an increase in population over the past five years, but the rise has slowed down compared to previous surveys.

A local law approving the medicinal use of cannabis has been approved by the French Polynesian assembly.

A court in Paris has given lengthy jail sentences to 11 people for their role in smuggling more than a ton of cocaine through French Polynesia.

French Polynesia's president says methamphetamine poses a threat to society with an estimated 10,000 users of the drug in the territory.

Twelve men in French Polynesia have been ordered to stand trial accused of paying for sex with a 14-year-old prostitute.

Murder charges have been reinstated against the man suspected of killing French Polynesian journalist Jean-Pascal Couraud, known as JPK, who vanished in 1997.

France's highest administrative court has ruled that French Polynesia's president Edouard Fritch can retain the presidency, if his party wins next year's territorial election.

The trial of 11 people caught in French Polynesia with more than a ton of cocaine on their yachts has started in Paris.

The lawyers for a disbarred and retired medical doctor in French Polynesia have asked for his trial to be deferred for a sixth time.

The new French High Commissioner to French Polynesia has heard calls for support and compensation for atolls close to the test sites of France's nuclear weapons tests.

The French state should pay for a study on the genetic impact of its nuclear weapons tests in the South Pacific, the French Polynesian president Edouard Fritch says.