Noel Dyson

CAREER coaching is becoming more acceptable in Australia.A coaching relationship is largely short term with a focus on changing behaviour that limits the client’s professional development.

UPGRADE proposals for Barrack Square, including a hotel and restaurant complex and a redevelopment of the jetty area, have been given the support of council.

FLEDGLING WA businesses can now get their enterprise off the ground and establish markets in Europe.

TWO horticultural producers who found the quality of their corn deteriorated during export to Japan have received $200,000 to develop a cooling chain process to address the problem.

PERTH City Mission’s governing body Mission Australia has managed to put 1,000 people into employment every month for the past 15 months.

AN APPLICATION to build a 16 apartment building at 170 Adel-aide Terrace has been approved by council.

KLEENHEAT Gas has formed an alliance with Great Southern Energy to bring natural gas to the Snowy Mountains gateway town of Cooma.

PARTS of Asia struggling to overcome the effects of the recent financial crisis may be struck down by the Y2K bug.

Kimberley residents still hold hopes for a tidal power station at Derby.

LEARNING about electronic commerce has become easier thanks to a CR-Rom produced as a result of this year’s Smart Business 99 Electronic Commerce Expo, held in Perth in March.

COUNCIL has written off the $67,395 debt owed by Michael and Sue Wilson for rent and other charges related to Sinatra’s Tavern in the City Station Concourse.

Chiefton Management was incorporated more than a decade ago to provide specialist services to building owners that would take care of all aspects of owning and running a building – a service termed ‘facilities management’.

STATEWEST Credit Society has become the first WA financial institution to launch its own online banking service.

THE Goldfields and South East Industry Development Centre has opened its doors.

SWITCHING from a career in science to a career in retail has helped win Kirrily Van Reil the Young Retailer of the Year Award.

RESIDENTS and businesses in Northbridge will be asked for their views on a proposed Multicultural Arts and Crafts Market in Russell Square.

PILING has begun on the Narrows Bridge Duplication project from the South Perth foreshore.

Kevin Baum believes Perth could becomes a hub for electronic commerce.

A NEW research centre is set to make WA a national leader in sustainable development.

NON-accountants have the chance to learn how to take control of their own finances in a seminar with the ‘singing accountant’ Peter Ho.

Concern at the lack of commitment toward economic reform by political parties has prompted the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of WA to prepare a policy document.

WA’s JOYCE Corporation has enacted part of its plan to use acquisitions to increase its market capitalisation.

RETAIL leasing has been set back 25 years by the new Retail Shops Act, says Kott Gunning senior associate George Johnston.

A new planning tool aims to remove a number of strategic planning dangers.

TWO WA universities have joined forces to internationally market their education studies schools.

Curtin University of Technology is moving to become an international centre for forensic science research and education and a major source of long-term assistance to nations, particularly in South East Asia, in crime solving through science.

A NEW project will be launched on 25 August to deliver higher education to wheatbelt communities.

JOHN Garland International principal John Garland has been reappointed chairman of the Small Business Development Corpora-tion for another two years.

NORTHBRIDGE parking will receive a much-needed boost with council establishing a temporary car park on land over the Graham Farmer Freeway tunnel.

PERTH is to become the Standards Australia Group’s gateway to Asia.

PERTH’S dedicated convention and exhibition centre is guaranteed to be built in the Perth CBD and it is to include a soccer and rugby stadium.

A PLAN to supply electrical power to an experimental trochus hatchery on the Dampier Peninsula has received WA Government funding of $20,000.