French Polynesia News

Share + Feb 7, 2010 8:38 pm US/Pacific Reporting Mike Luery MOOREA, French Polynesia The University of California is facing a huge deficit - yet owns properties around the globe worth millions of dollars - including one facility on a tropical paradise in a place some are calling "Fantasy Island". The tropical island in the South Pacific is called ...

Tropical cyclone Oli has claimed its first life as it sweeps through French Polynesia.

Auckland Regional Council chairman Mike Lee could have some explaining to do next time he visits the city library, after leaving three of its books on a deserted Pacific island.

Hundreds of former members of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church met Sunday in a nature park in north Broward County for the second service of a fledgling breakaway church established after a series of rifts at Coral Ridge over the leadership of the prominent Fort Lauderdale church's new pastor.

An official in French Polynesia says swelling ocean waters driven by Cyclone Oli have left at least one person dead on the South Pacific archipelago.

Oli has exploded in strength and as of February 4 it was a Category 4 cyclone with peak sustained winds of 132 mph .

THE Pacific island of Tahiti was placed on Red Alert and vulnerable residents were evacuated on Thursday as a powerful cyclone expected to bring seven-metre waves menaced the island, an official said.

Authorities in French Polynesia have given refuge to tourists and urged residents to stay indoors as Cyclone Oli blows through the region.

PAPE'ETE, January 27 - Former French Polynesian President and now opposition leader Oscar Temaru has on Tuesday ignited yet another controversy when he suggested, during Parliament debates, that cannabis should be allowed for sale and consumption to visiting tourists.

A New Zealand film aboutA the plight of people facing climate change in Bougainville has won the top prize at the International Pacific Documentary Film Festival.

A recovery in Hawaii's visitor industry, the state's top economic engine, is at least two years out despite improved performance in December and a respectable year-end finish.

An hour's ferry ride from Tahiti, on the French Polynesian island of Moorea, the placid waters of Cook's Bay float an outrigger canoe and reflect the ridge line of Mt.

Looks like Air France wants to level the flying field and make it easier to travel to France's overseas territories and, in turn, help those areas get some extra tourism Euros.

A blackspot sergeant on the reef in Moorea, French Polynesia. In five distinct and contrasting environments, from a tropical forest to a city-centre park, Liittschwager set down his 12-inch metal cube, and started watching.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has signalled yet another electoral and institutional reform for French Polynesia in a bid to end an ongoing spate of political instability in the French Pacific territory.

'It was like finding little gems' - just some of the creatures photographed by David Liittschwager.

Jan 22nd 2010 at 9:01AM When you visit Bora Bora, in French Polynesia, the thing to do is to book a stay in an over-water bungalow.

Now, this sounds like a great trip! Three Hedrick area residents joined the WHO Radio Tour group to Papeete, Tahiti in December.

The world faces well-known milestones for reducing carbon dioxide emissions in the coming decades to reduce the dangers of climate change.

Spring break is a fabulous time to get away from it all for a time of relaxation and refreshing.