Nuclear cases in French Polynesia Apr 28, 2009
A court in French Polynesia has begun hearing complaints from former workers at France's nuclear weapons test sites ... Before the hearing started, the French Polynesian president, Oscar Temaru, met some of the veterans' representatives. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
* World News Quick Take Mar 25, 2009
Between 1960 and 1966, the government carried out more than 200 atmospheric nuclear tests, 17 of them in the Algerian Sahara and 193 in French Polynesia. The individual cases will be examined by an independent commission comprised of physicians and headed by a magistrate, Morin said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Advances in Monitoring Nuclear Weapon Testing Mar 3, 2009
France exploded this nuclear weapon at Mururoa Atoll in French Polynesia on July 3, 1970. Atmospheric explosions are now banned by treaty and relatively easy to detect. (Scientific American)
Fritch elected French Polynesia's new Speaker Feb 13, 2009
WELLINGTON, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- French Polynesia's lawmakers on Friday elected Edouard Fritch as Speaker in the French Pacific territory legislature, in the wake of the election of pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru as president, the Oceania Flash reported ... After his election, Fritch once again stressed that the new parliamentary majority was the largest in French Polynesia in a very long time ... French Polynesia is a French overseas collectivity in the southern Pacific Ocean. (Xinhuanet, China)
French Polynesia elects president Feb 12, 2009
French Polynesia's assembly has elected Oscar Temaru as the next president after Gaston Tong Sang's resignation ... Gaston Flosse, generally described as pro-France, had ruled French Polynesia for most of two decades until 2004. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
