French Polynesia is as much about its rich culture as its breathtaking beauty. Like many aspects of contemporary Polynesian life, the cuisine reflects a melding of diverse influences that have shaped ...

Wang Chen, head of Tahiti Nui Ocean Foods, a subsidiary of China’s Tianrui group, met with Tahitian top leaders in mid-August 2017 to announce the construction of a fish farm on Hao Atoll to begin in ...

The story of how Chinese food evolved to become one of French Polynesia’s top culinary offerings – and where to find the best of it.

In July 2021, French President Emmanuel Macron visited French Polynesia for the first time in his mandate. Macron had to answer many domestic political questions about the health crisis linked to ...

A giant whale stole the show at the Summer Olympic Games, shooting out of the water as athletes competed in women's surfing semi-finals on the French Pacific island of Tahiti last month. It is for ...

Voyagers migrated to islands sprinkled across a large area of the Pacific within about 500 years Polynesian voyagers settled islands across a vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean within about 500 years, ...

Researchers claim to have settled question of whether there was contact between islanders and Americas with construction of tuber’s ‘family tree’ The sweet potato is ubiquitous enough to seem almost ...

Paul Wallin is in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, Campus Gotland, Visby SE-621 67, Sweden. The early peopling of Polynesia attracted worldwide interest in 1947, ...

Swivelling their hips to the furious beat of pahu drums, dancers whirl like dust devils across a sandy stage erected on the beach. An audience watches, mesmerised, as the music grows louder and ...

How did the Polynesian peoples come to live on the far-flung islands of the Pacific? The question has intrigued researchers for centuries. Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl brought the topic to public ...

The remote collection of islands in the Pacific Ocean is seeing a market ‘transformation’ thanks to a stable economy, expanded tourism and exploding demand. 13 Photos View Slide Show › By Roxana ...