The printing shop of French Polynesia's La Depeche newspaper has been placed in receivership.
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This follows prolonged financial difficulties for the publication which is the only local daily newspaper for sale.
Workers had been fearing job losses and launched a strike last month after being repeatedly paid late.
The strikers had also been decrying poor working conditions and a failure to adhere to the terms of a settlement that ended the last strike last year.
The company RLD has now six months to find a solution to avoid liquidation.
Four years ago, the territory's oldest newspaper Nouvelles de Tahiti ceased publication after 57 years.
However, there is a free daily in French Polynesia - Tahiti-infos.