Category: French Polynesia
More gendarmes in Polynesia and New Caledonia
by Ted Wood | Oct 3, 2023 | Area, French Polynesia, New Caledonia
French President Emmanuel Macron has unveiled the map of the 238 new gendarmerie brigades to be set up across France. The Pacific region has not been forgotten. There will be five new fixed and mobile brigades between now and...
Read MoreMiss Caledonia voting error
by Ted Wood | Sep 13, 2023 | Area, Breaking News, Culture, French Polynesia, New Caledonia
The elected Miss actually only came fourth The Miss world is in a state of shock. Four days after...
Read MoreThe Minister of the Interior in Polynesia
by Ted Wood | Aug 16, 2023 | Area, Breaking News, Environment, French Polynesia, Politics
Less than a month after his visit to New Caledonia with the President of the Republic, Gérald...
Read MoreA nuclear power station in New Caledonia?
by Ted Wood | Aug 13, 2023 | Area, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Pacific
The idea is to install two small nuclear power stations using a new technology. Christopher Gygès,...
Read MoreParking charges at Tahiti-Faa’a International Airport have rocketed
by Ted Wood | Aug 10, 2023 | Area, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Travel
It’s true that prices around the world are very high… To park for an hour, the rate has been increased by… 100%. An increase of this magnitude is bound to arouse a great deal of public discontent. There...
Read MorePolynesia: Dengue epidemic on the horizon
by Ted Wood | Aug 10, 2023 | Area, Breaking News, French Polynesia, Healthcare, New Caledonia
Health authorities warn the public According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 130 countries...
Read MoreThe state spends 2.5 billion francs in French Polynesia
by Ted Wood | Jul 6, 2023 | Area, French Polynesia, In Short
2.5 billion Australian dollars – that’s how much the French state invested in French Polynesia last year. A figure that is set to rise in relation to 2021, according to the public media Polynésie 1ère, which points...
Read MoreRavahere miss Tahiti 2023
by Ted Wood | Jun 26, 2023 | Area, French Polynesia, Lifestyle
In French Polynesia, the election of miss Tahiti is a major event. It keeps the myth of the vahiné...
Read MorePolynesian rescue team finds shipwrecked man in the Pacific, days after search was called off
by Ted Wood | Jun 18, 2023 | Area, French Polynesia, In Short
An American shipwrecked man in a lifeboat was rescued by an oil tanker on Friday in the Pacific, 950 km east of the Marquesas Islands, several days after the search had been called off. It was found in the area monitored by...
Read MoreKite surfer attacked by shark
by Ted Wood | May 30, 2023 | Area, Breaking News, Environment, French Polynesia, Sports
The attack took place in Arue on Sunday May 28. After New Caledonia, Polynesia… A young woman kite-surfing on the Arue lake “was bitten quite seriously on the buttock by a shark at around 2:35 pm”. The...
Read MoreNations of water: the reality of climate change
by Ted Wood | May 21, 2023 | Area, Environment, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Pacific, Wallis and Futuna
The University of New Caledonia and the Pacific Islands University Research Network (PIURN)...
Read MoreMoetai Brotherson, President of French Polynesia
by Ted Wood | May 14, 2023 | Area, French Polynesia, Politics
This is the second time that a pro-independence person has held this position. Moetai Brotherson...
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- Macron in Vanuatu and PNG
New Caledonia is not the only objective of Emmanuel Macron's visit. After Nouméa on 27 July, the French President will fly to Vanuatu with the Presidents of New Caledonia (Louis Mapou) and Polynesia (Moetai Brotherson). On 28 July, he will travel to Papua New Guinea. He will be developing the theme known as the Indo-Pacific axis. The idea is to build a bulwark against China's omnipotence in the region.