Tahiti

The Pacific Games Council has accused the Tahitian government of political interference, after announcing it will boycott the upcoming Mini Games in Vanuatu.

French Polynesia's opposition Tahoeraa Huiraatira Party has come out against plans of a French low-cost airline to fly between Paris and Tahiti.

The public prosecutor in French Polynesia said sailors who had 500 kilogrammes of cocaine hidden in their catamaran claim they didn't know.

Samoa and Guam are in a two-horse race to host the 2019 Pacific Games after a lack of government support ruled Tahiti out of contention.

A township in French Polynesia is alarmed at the cost of cleaning up a former French military site which was returned last year.

Tahiti kept alive their Rugby World Cup qualifying hopes after beating the Cook Islands 13-9 in Rarotonga to win the Oceania Cup.

Tahiti have included eight French-based players in their squad to take on the Cook Islands in rugby's Oceania Cup next weekend.

The Cook Islands insist they will not take Tahiti lightly after naming their squad for next weekend's Oceania Cup rugby playoff in Rarotonga.

The French Polynesian government has given conditional approval to a bid to resume phosphate mining on Makatea atoll.

There has been further reaction in French Polynesia to the stalling of the compensation process for victims of France's nuclear weapons tests.

The host of the 2011 Pacific Games says whoever puts their hand up to replace Tonga in 2019 must have sufficient funding and strong government support.