French Polynesia News

SEVEN ocean-going cameos will sail from French Polynesia to Hawaii to protest against noise pollution in the Pacific Ocean.

French navy ship The Graceful and crew will arrive at Crown Bay at 8 a.m. Saturday for three days of rest and relaxation in the Virgin Islands.

PAPE'ETE, November 13 - French Polynesia's government, which is currently seeking to cut costs and tighten financial controls, intends to sell its ATR-42 plane, purchased six years ago and has since been widely nicknamed "Air Flosse One". The turboprop aircraft was purchased in 2003, under former President Gaston Flosse's administration for a total ...

A 21st Century multi-media Internet world of communications is about a week away from starting at Bora Bora on Nov.

Miss French Polynesia Aruhoia Biret is eager to send a strong message to the people of the Pacific during the 2009 Miss South Pacific Pageant at Suva's Albert Park next week.

Miss Fiji Merewalesi Nailatikau welcomes Miss Tahiti Aruhoia Biret at Nausori yesterday.

The wild koala population was between 43,000 and 80,000, well under previous estimates of more than 100,000, with the animals facing possible extinction in about 30 years, the Australian Koala Foundation said.

PAPE'ETE, November 10 - French Polynesia's veteran politician and former president, Gaston Flosse, whose immunity as a Senator was lifted last week, has on Tuesday been taken into custody under heavy police guard, after a three-hour interview with an investigating judge, local media report.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has signalled a new approach from Paris towards its overseas departments, countries and territories - including those in the Pacific.

Host country, Fiji has set this year's Miss South Pacific Pageant for the evening of Nov.

Prosecutor Jose Thorel alleged Flosse played a central role in a decade-long corruption scheme that saw him and his party receive payments from ex-post and telecoms officials.

Follow Paul Gauguin to the Marquesas Islands' spectacular French Polynesian scenery aboard the Aranui III adventure cruise.

Leader in business analytics software and services, SAS announced the formation of two new regional hubs within Asia Pacific.

Colorful Chlorophyll around Marquises Islands The disturbance that islands cause in the flow of water currents in the ocean creates turbulence that mixes surface waters with deeper ocean layers.

Film-maker and conversationist Rawiri Paratene and Te Aturangi Clamp, the New Zealanders behind an ambitious project to preserve the ocean and voyaging knowledge and skills of past generations.

Every month during the Year for Priests, Papeete's diocesan newspaper 'Le Semeur Tahitien' asks the faithful to rediscover the figure of a priest or a Bishop who has marked the history of Catholicism in Oceania and specifically, in Papeete, thinking in the missionaries that have dedicated their lives to the evangelization of the old Apostolic ...

Island-hopping spa-goers will leave the outside world behind with a visit to two South Pacific spas that give new meaning to the idea of Polynesian pampering.

French Polynesia has joined the list of South Pacific territories and countries where couples from overseas can marry without an obligatory 30-day residence.

Amy Verner Globe and Mail Update Published on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009 11:53AM EDT Last updated on Tuesday, Oct.

University of French Polynesia's re-elected president Louise Peltzer, a former minister of culture, believes future Pacific regional cooperation could include journalism, language and communication technologies.