French Polynesia News

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.

Designer Sunny Fong presented twelve pieces for his VAWK clothing line at the Art Gallery of Ontario to kick off Toronto's LG Fashion Week, Monday October 19, 2009.

Oct 22 - An intensive care clinic for marine turtles in French Polynesia is trying to help save the endangered species from extinction by nursing sick and injured animals back to health.

Maybe from now on, relative newcomer Kali Hawk should try to blow all her major Hollywood auditions.

Sunny Fong brought his own twist on the tropics to Toronto's Fashion Week. The Season 2 winner of "Project Runway Canada" kicked off the latest edition of LG Fashion Week with a spring/summer 2010 collection inspired by French Polynesia.

Film Review: Couples Retreat LOVE is a battlefield - and in Peter Billingsley's vapid comedy, penned by Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau and Dana Fox, enemy lines are drawn on one of the most beautiful locations on the planet.

PARIS : The French SenateA endorsed a controversial nuclear compensation bill this week which, for the firstA time, sets out a compensation mechanism for victims of the FrenchA nuclear tests, including those carried out between 1966 and 1996 inA French Polynesia.

Four couples -- all friends -- endure the comic indignities of beach-resort relationship counseling.

Activists fighting for victims of French nuclear testing in the Pacific are stunned by conditions imposed in a compensation bill by France's upper house.

Papeete's market is open daily, selling a sizzling range of foods and exotic goods.

Only when youa TMre far enough from shore to see nothing at all does all discipline and ambition evaporate.

If the Bora Bora travel commission was hoping to get a boost from "Couples Retreat," a rude awakening awaits.