Tag: France
Fiji tries to salvage Nations Cup rugby tour from covid ruins
By RNZ Pacific
Fiji's rugby team is set to have another round of covid-19 testing today as they seek to salvage what is left of...
‘Suspicious’ fishing vessels spotted in Solomon Islands waters
By Priestley Habru in Honiara
A Pacific-wide maritime surveillance operation this week discovered a few suspicious foreign vessels in Solomon waters.
The Pacific Islands Forum Agency...
50 French police who have returned from Polynesia test covid positive
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
French authorities say 50 gendarmes who had been deployed in French Polynesia have tested positive to covid-19 after their return to...
RSF calls on Facebook to restore censored Papua press freedom article
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Facebook to restore an article that was censored for violating its rules on nudity...
Air Tahiti Nui flight attendant tests positive for covid-19 – second...
By RNZ Pacific
A flight attendant in French Polynesia has tested positive for covid-19 - the second Tahiti infection recorded in three days.
The government said...
35 years on, Tahiti’s Temaru likely guest in Rainbow Warrior rewind
Flashback: Tagata Pasifika's John Pulu talks to Oscar Temaru in 2016.
By David Robie
One of the champions of the South Pacific’s nuclear-free and independence campaigners,...
Coronavirus ‘our common enemy’ says Chinese consul – Tahiti cases hit...
Pacific Media Centre
The Chinese consul in French Polynesia, Shen Zhiliang, has described the new coronavirus causing the global Covid-19 pandemic as "our common enemy”.
He...
China bid wins hosting rights for next global journalism meet
By Jeremaiah Opiniano in Paris
Journalism that usually fits into democracies will go to China in 2022 when the economic and political giant hosts a...
Tahiti’s Flosse ordered to repay millions in ‘phantom jobs’ case
By RNZ Pacific
French Polynesia's former president Gaston Flosse and 12 other people have been ordered to jointly repay millions of francs they misspent on...
New Caledonia vote stirs painful memories – and a hopeful future
David Robie, who reported from New Caledonia during the 1980s for Islands Business magazine, The Australian, New Zealand Times and other media, returned to...
New Caledonia celebrates Bastille Day and thinks about independence
IN-DEPTH: By Dr Lee Duffield, recently in Kanaky/New Caledonia
The Quatorze Juillet (14 July) events in Noumea this month, as in any small French city,...
New Caledonia referendum offers chance to turn page, says journo
By RNZ Pacific
This year's referendum on independence from France is a chance to turn a new page on New Caledonia's past, says a Kanak...
Macron visits Ouvéa on anniversary of defining 1988 hostage crisis
FLASHBACK: The controversial docudrama Rebellion, screened at the 2012 NZ International Film Festival by director Mathieu Kassovitz and featuring some Kanak relatives of the...
Macron begins New Caledonia visit as independence vote looms
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
French President Emmanuel Macron today began a three-day visit to New Caledonia - six months before the territory's vote on independence...
Rainbow Warrior takes on fresh eco mission to Papua, Indonesia
By Astari Pinasthika Sarosa in Jakarta
The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior is sailing throughout Indonesia - including West Papua - as a vehicle for environmental...
Glittering time at Toulouse, but Novès’ sacking smacks of scapegoating
TRIBUTE: By former Planet Rugby editor Danny Stephens
Not three hours had passed since last week’s message from Queen Elizabeth II said she was “…hoping...
20 years on, the disturbing case of journalist ‘JPK’ is still...
By Walter Zweifel of RNZ Pacific
It's 20 years today since French Polynesian journalist Jean-Pascal Couraud vanished.
"JPK", as he was widely known, left no trace,...
‘We’re losing the climate change battle,’ warns Macron
French President Emmanuel Macron appeals to the world to do more on climate change. Video: Al Jazeera
French President Emmanuel Macron has delivered a rallying...
Vanuatu PM Salwai seeks UN probe on West Papua human rights...
UN video sourced from the West Papua Liberation Organisation.
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Vanuatu Prime Minister Charlot Salwai Tabimasmas has expressed his country’s concern about the...
Newest PIF members historic – but not without concerns, say reports
French Polynesia and New Caledonia have become the newest members to join the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF).
The decision is historic as the PIF was...
Fijian Virimi Vakatawa in France 7s squads for Rio 2016
France coaches Frédéric Pomarel and David Courteix have unveiled the men's and women's squads for rugby sevens' debut at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
There...
Stop politicising relief help, warns Seruiratu – 62,000 homeless
By Verleshwar Singh and Peni Shute of Newswire Fiji
Fiji's Minister for National Disaster Management, Colonel Inia Seruiratu, has lashed out at political parties that...