French Polynesia has a new president with Oscar Temaru taking over as leader of the country's assembly for the third time since 2004. It is hard to keep up with changes at the top of French Polynesian ...

Although Temaru appreciates the activists' support, he does not control the men who run the protests - principally Tahitian aristocrat Joinville Pomare (the statue of his grandfather, the last king of ...

RAROTONGA – In a far flung corner of the South Pacific a secessionist movement is stirring with its protagonists preparing for a major battle looming half a world away. And if Oscar Manutahi Temaru ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. French Polynesia's assembly has ended a long political deadlock by electing pro-independence figure Oscar Temaru president of the South ...

If President Oscar Manutahi Temaru gets his way, French Polynesia could one day become an independent nation – but at what cost?

Former President of French Polynesia Oscar Temaru says he'll attend the Pacific Islands Forum in Marshall Islands as an uninvited guest. Mr Temaru says he wants Forum leaders to be informed that ...

A complaint has been filed at the Hague-based International Criminal Court against France for alleged crimes against humanity over nuclear tests conducted in the South Pacific, a French Polynesian ...

OscarOscar Temaru, the 72-year-old leader of French Polynesia’s pro-independence movement, arrived in France this month to further his campaign to run in this spring’s presidential elections. Like all ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. French Polynesia's assembly has ended a long political deadlock by electing pro-independence figure Oscar Temaru president of the South ...