French Polynesia

The Covid-19 outbreak in French Polynesia claimed another 17 lives since yesterday, raising the number of fatalities to 328.

Reports from French Polynesia say the Chinese longliner which hit Anuanurunga atoll last month had a malfunctioning radar and used an incomplete map.

The Covid-19 outbreak in French Polynesia claimed another 54 lives over the weekend.

A two-week lockdown has been imposed in parts of French Polynesia after a rapid surge in Covid-19 infections filled hospitals.

French Polynesia is grappling with a new surge of Covid-19 infections, the delta variant.

French Polynesia is grappling with a new surge of Covid-19 infections, the delta variant.

Police and the public prosecutor in French Polynesia are investigating reports that last week's wedding for Vice President Tearii Alpha flouted Covid-19 rules.

French Polynesia's biggest church says the indigenous Maohi people must free itself from the enslavement by France.

Restrictions are being reintroduced in French Polynesia in a bid to counter a rapidly worsening Covid-19 pandemic.

France and French Polynesia have agreed to jointly spend $US60 million to build 17 cyclone shelters across the Tuamotu archipelago.

The French president Emmanuel Macron says he will endorse a bid by French Polynesia's Marquesas Islands to become a UNESCO World Heritage site.

France has sent a naval team to French Polynesia's Anuanurunga atoll to try to contain a possible oil spill from a stranded Chinese longliner.

An heir to the last queen of Nuku Hiva in French Polynesia's Marquesas Islands has asked the French president not to endorse the archipelago's bid to become a UNESCO World Heritage site.

French Polynesia's president has spoken out for mandatory vaccinations against Covid-19

Several thousand people in French Polynesia have joined a march demanding France own up to the damage caused by its nuclear weapons tests.

The French Polynesian president says Paris has for the first time conceded that it should compensate Tahiti's social security agency CPS for the medical costs caused by France's nuclear weapons tests.