“You cannot be French on Monday and Chinese on Tuesday.” –French President Emmanuel Macron, 2021. When it comes to foreign relations, national and local narratives are not always aligned in the French ...

More than 800 years ago, Indigenous people in South America traversed more than 7,000 kilometers of open sea to reach eastern Polynesia, a new study suggests. There, the South Americans mated with ...

Editor’s note: This story is part of As Equals, CNN’s ongoing series on gender inequality. For information about how the series is funded and more, check out our FAQs. Papeete, French Polynesia — In ...

Polynesia is a popular honeymoon destination, but I traveled there solo and had a wonderful time. I rented my own scooter and stayed in guesthouses, a different experience than most honeymooners.

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 ...

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 ...

Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT ...

The Seasteading Institute set out on a mission to build a floating, libertarian utopia in the middle of the ocean. French Polynesia, an island nation that once agreed to let the institute develop the ...

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, ...

French Polynesia was on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories from 1946 to 1947, following the transmission of information on French Establishments in Oceania by France under ...

Indigenous Americans and Polynesians crossed thousands of miles of open ocean and made contact with each other as early as 1200 A.D., centuries before the arrival of Europeans, a new study has found.

Across the Pacific, tattoos are etched into the culture. Finding meaning in your own ‘story on skin’ helps honor the tradition. A young man in Oahu, Hawai‘i, gets a tattoo the traditional way, with a ...