Tag: French Polynesia
four police officers taken into custody for violence against a disabled person
Four police officers were suspended and placed in police custody for having committed violence against a person with a disability, the High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia and…
French surfer Kauli Vaast crowned Olympic champion
On Monday, August 5, 2024, Tahitian Kauli Vaast won the first French Olympic surfing title and the first gold medal in Tahitian sport in Teahupo’o, beating Australian Jack Robinson in…
In Tahiti, the ship “Aranui 5” transformed into a floating village for surfers
The surfing event of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games is scheduled to take place in Tahiti from July 27 to 30. French Polynesia, 15,000 kilometers from Paris, also has its…
2024 Olympics: portrait of “the Jaw”, the smashing wave that the athletes will surf at Teahupoo
The Tahitian wave of Teahupoo fascinates as much as it frightens. Considered the most beautiful wave in the world, it has been selected to host the surfing events of the…
Tahiti surfs for the Olympics
Paris 2024 is also in French Polynesia. Tahiti hosts, from July 27 to 30, 2024, the surfing event of the Olympic Games. This is the first time in the history…
Separatist Moetai Brotherson elected president of French Polynesia
The separatist Moetai Brotherson was elected Friday president of French Polynesia, by the representatives of the local Assembly. He was chosen by the 38 separatist representatives of the Assembly, elected…
separatists in the lead in the first round
With 34.9% of the vote, the list of former President Oscar Temaru and MP Moetai Brotherson came out on top in the first round of the Polynesian Assembly elections on…
“The future of Polynesia within the framework of the Republic is at stake”
First round this Sunday, April 16 of the territorial elections in French Polynesia. Some 209,000 voters are called upon to choose their 57 representatives in the Assembly from seven lists.…
Titaua Peu, to put an end to the silences of his country Tahiti
Author with an eminently political commitment, Titaua Peu writes a realistic Polynesian society, far from illusory clichés. She represents one of the main French-speaking voices of Pacific literature. Mutisms, her…
Surfing in Tahiti: the “mythical Teahupoo wave” of the 2024 Olympics… Adrenaline guaranteed!
The mythical vague of Teahupoo which hits the shores of Tahiti has attracted the attention of the whole world since the Polynesian island was selected in 2020 to host the…