LYCOS RETRIEVER 
French: French Polynesia
built 652 days ago
-- Opening as French Polynesia's first all-suite resort. The average size of a bungalow went from 400 to 1,000 square feet, changing the name of the rooms to villa bungalows. -- The first half-mile white sand beach at a resort. -- The first floating lobby & overwater check-in. -- Opening the first full-service spa on Bora Bora. -- The first resort to combine over-the-top luxury with hand-crafted design materials like: carved kahia & coconut wood, roof thatching woven on the island, tapa cloths pounded from the breadfruit tree and chandeliers made from Tahitian black pearl shells.
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In the territories of the Indian Ocean, the French language is often spoken alongside French-derived creole languages, the major exception being Madagascar. There, a Malayo-Polynesian language (Malagasy) is spoken alongside French. The French language has ... met competition with English since English has been the official language in Mauritius and the Seychelles for a long time and has recently become an official language of Madagascar.
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BORA BORA, French Polynesia, Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- The Bora Bora Nui Resort & Spa, which catapulted French Polynesia luxury to new heights with its 2002 debut, will fete its visionary "firsts" with a month-long tribute to the arts this October. The 120-room Nui features lavish, thatched-roof villa bungalows up to 1,500 square feet and a picture-perfect hillside setting perched above a sacred cove.
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OPT is a public entity fully owned by the territory of French Polynesia. OPT's main duty is to provide comprehensive telephony services and is committed to improve access to all forms of information all over French Polynesia, including remote islands. Its 81 postal offices are able to deliver postal and simple banking services as well. OPT fully owns or controls entities such as Tikiphone for mobile GSM services, MANA for internet services, Tahiti Nui Satellite which operates 23 channels direct to home video services, Tahiti Nui Telecom for International Telephone traffic and finally, ISS as ITC in addition to providing advice, IT consultancies often implement, deploy, and administer IT systems.
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