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S.Pacific - International Parliamentarians Protest
Eight parliamentarians from Australia, Japan and Europe returned
to the Tahitian capital Papeete on Sunday (10/9). The MP's were aboard
"La Ribaude," part of the international peace flotilla near
Mururoa, protesting against French...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : French presidential election: Tahiti votes
Voting takes place in French Polynesia for the second round of the French presidential election
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PACIFIC: TAHITI: GREENPEACE SHIP DEPARTS
Eng/French/Nat
The Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior II set sail from Tahiti Monday on its mission to block France's planned underground nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll.
The ship was sent on its way by hymn-singing supporters before...
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TAHITI: PAPEETE: PLANS FOR ANTI FRENCH RALLIES
French/Nat
Anti-French rallies are planned in Tahiti during their Bastille Day celebrations on Friday.
Demonstrators, angry at President Chirac's decision to end the moratorium on nuclear testing in the Pacific, plan a day of activities...
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Pearls analysis to help determine whether they are natural or cultured
Pearls are alluring gems that symbolise purity, status and have always been very highly prized.
But when the Japanese started producing cultured pearls early last century differentiating between the "man-made" and natural pearls became...
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TAHITI: ANTI NUCLEAR DEMONSTRATORS STORM GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS
Eng/French/Nat
Anti nuclear demonstrators in Tahiti have stormed government buildings in protest at the French nuclear testing programme in the South Pacific.
Polynesian independence campaigners say the proposed tests - which start at...
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PACIFIC: TAHITI: GREENPEACE'S RAINBOW WARRIOR ARRIVES
Tahiti, 30 June 1995
1. Pan with Greenpeace 'Rainbow Warrior' coming into the picture
2. Cutaway boat crossing past buoy
3. 'Rainbow Warrior' arriving at Tahiti
4. Wide: March on main thoroughfare
5. Marcher waves
6. Various: Marchers...
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PACIFIC: TAHITI: MISS TAHITI BEAUTY CONTEST
Eng/French/Nat
The annual Miss Tahiti beauty pageant has become a major social event in the tropical island paradise.
Thirteen finalists from all over French Polynesia competed for the title - and the sure possibility of lucrative...
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Tahiti-Islanders Unite Against Bomb Tests
Tahiti Eng Comm/natsot Duration: 1.26"
As the deadline approached for the French government's resumption
of nuclear weapons testing at Muroroa Atoll in the South Pacific,
opposition in nearby Tahiti continued to...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Tahiti black pearl endangered by global warming
The black pearl of Tahiti is at the heart of French Polynesias economy but is now highly vulnerable to climate change and its fragile existence underlines in a small but exquisite way what is at stake in UN climate talks starting in...
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TAHITI: SEVERAL NATIONS BOYCOTT ANNUAL ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
Natural Sound
Anger at France's nuclear testing programme in the South Pacific has even spread to sport.
As a protest some countries have refused to send teams to the annual athletics championships in Tahiti.
The official closing...
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FRANCE : EVANGELICAL CHURCH OF POLYNESIA PROTESTS TO PRESIDENT
Eng/French/Nat
A delegation of the Evangelical church of Polynesia has met French President Jacques Chirac in Paris, Thursday to protest against the current French nuclear tests in Mururoa.
The Church has always been peacefully...
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PACIFIC: TAHITI: POLITICAL BACKGROUNDER
Eng/French/Nat
France's plan to resume nuclear testing in the Pacific has caused angry protests in Tahiti, the political and economic center of French Polynesia.
Opposition leaders have seized upon the dissatisfaction to drive home their...
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PACIFIC: TAHITI: GREENPEACE'S RAINBOW WARRIOR ARRIVES: UPDATE
Eng/French/Nat
The environmental action group Greenpeace's ship, Rainbow Warrior Two, has docked in Papeete Harbour in Tahiti.
Thousands of demonstrators clogged the streets to welcome the ship and demand a referendum on whether...
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TAHITI: ANTI FRENCH NUCLEAR TEST RIOTS: SITUATION UPDATE
Eng/French/Nat
New violence swept the streets of Tahiti's capital Papeete late Thursday.. just as residents were clearing up the carnage left by riots the day before..
French Polynesian President, Gaston Flosse toured Papeete's town...
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Tahiti-Arrival French Overseas Territory Minister
The French minister for overseas territories, Jean-Jacques Peretti, on Saturday (26/8) became the first French minister to visit Tahiti since his country's decision to resume its nuclear test programme in the South Pacific. As the...
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TAHITI: ANTI NUCLEAR DEMONSTRATIONS SITUATION UPDATE
Eng/French/Nat
Anti nuclear demonstrators in Tahiti have stormed government buildings in protest at the French nuclear testing programme in the South Pacific.
Polynesian independence campaigners say the proposed tests - which start at...
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TAHITI: PAPEETE: ARRIVAL OF GREENPEACE SHIP RAINBOW WARRIOR II
Eng/French/Nat
Thousands of Tahitians greeted the Rainbow Warrior II as the Greenpeace protest ship arrived Friday to join an anti-nuclear rally on Bastille Day.
Anger against the French decision to resume nuclear tests at Mururoa atoll...
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France to compensate for nuclear test health problems
1. Wide of presser
2. Mid of presser
3. Close-up of serviceman
4. SOUNDBITE: (French) Herve Morin, French Defence Minister:
"We will have a compensation system similar to the ones in the other democracies who have made nuclear tests...
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TAHITI: ANTI FRENCH NUCLEAR TEST RIOTS CONTINUE
Natural Sound
French police and rioters have again clashed on the streets of the Tahitian capital, Papeete, in a second straight day of violence and arson.
France flew hundreds more police and troops to the island to try and snuff out...
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TAHITI: ANTI-NUCLEAR TEST PROTESTORS BLOCK MAIN ROAD TO CAPITAL
English/Nat
Anti nuclear groups in Tahiti have blockaded the main road to the capital in protest at French commandos storming two Greenpeace vessels.
Anger spilled onto the streets of the capital Papeete after word spread that the...
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Tahiti - Tahitians Claim Radiation Effects
As tension mounts between nations of the South Pacific and France
over underground nuclear testing, a group of about 50 Polynesians
claim they are living proof that testing causes illness and even
death. Several who worked on the Mururoa...
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Tahiti's president criticised over his extravagant spending on presidential palaces
Papeete
1. Wide shot of Papeete, capital of Tahiti
2. Long view of town centre
3. Street market
4. Close up Tahitian flower sellers
5. Wide shot market place
6. Close up market worker
7. Papeete street
8. Band playing at election...
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PACIFIC: TAHITI: GREENPEACE SHIP DEPARTS
French/Nat
The Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior II set sail from Tahiti Monday on its mission to block France's planned underground nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll.
The ship was sent on its way by hymn-singing supporters before heading...