Staff Reporters

LOCAL agency Marketforce recently won a prestigious award at the World Lotteries Association conference in Glasgow.

AUSTRALIAN Business Research has launched live, web based access to the Insolvency & Trustee Service Australia's bankruptcy searches.

THE fundamentals for base metals have been negative this year with the exception of nickel, which has been the only metal to shine among its contemporaries.

EVER had one of those pounding headaches? Before you dope yourself up with some aspirin or other pain reliever, consider a natural alternative.

MEDIA monitoring is a little-known but very handy business service, says Media Monitors WA general manager Mark Willington. “I often meet people who have no idea what media monitoring is about,” Mr Willington said.

A PROJECT which commemorates William the Conqueror's 1086 Domesday Book has spawned an international mapping mission.The Domesday Book was effectively Britain's first comprehensive national census.

Perth-based minerals explorer Exodus Minerals Limited is targeting a world wide market valued at around $1.8 billion with a move to diversify through a new venture capital division specialising in biotechnology projects.

NEW digital television and datacasting legislation is overly restrictive and will have wide ramifications for the future of the emerging media, says Murdoch University marketing and media program chair Duane Varan.

IN THE eight years since the annual Diggers and Dealers Mining Forum started in Kalgoorlie, it's become quite clear there is nothing else like it anywhere in the world.

Quicklime manufacturer Cockburn Cement will spend about $1 million to overhaul its dredging fleet, which includes the dredge Success, three barges and the workboat Carnac.

PERTH-based Pivod Technologies has devised a solution to make video conferencing easier utilising the Internet.

Steady growth of 7 per cent in export earnings has demonstrated the strength of the mineral resource and energy sector in Australia.

METHOD + Madness is gearing up for major expansion.The company will move in August into brand new premises on the corner of Hay and Rokeby Streets in Subiaco, to accommodate a planned growth in staff from 60 to 150.

An education in psychology is very useful when working in a business development role, says Preston Helicopter Services director Joanne Firth.

MEDIA Release Productions and Highway 1 have formed an alliance to offer live video streaming on the Internet, allowing special events in Perth to be seen live around the world.

A membership-based company offering stock market trading support has opened in Subiaco.Home Trader managing director John Day said the company offered extensive training for people wanting to embark on medium-term trading.

South African diamond mining giant De Beers is to extend its dominance of the international diamond market with a C$167 million hostile bid to acquire a majority shareholding in the Snap Lake diamond project, in the Canadian North West Territories.

A PERTH business has launched an Internet-based pet advice service.Perfect Paws is an online pet accessory supply company that also offers users the ability to communicate pet-related health concerns to qualified vets.

I respond to the letter, Different Heritage at Stake: FPA, by Fremantle Port Authority chairman Ron Aitkenhead (Business News, June 29-July 12).

WA-based copper producer Matrix Metals Limited has formally listed on the bourse after successfully raising $7 million with the issue of 28 million shares at 25 cents each.

PERTH-based tax effective funds management company E-Shares Corporation Ltd is distributing its prospectus by CD-ROM.The company offers the services of an online investment bank and share trading company.

Perth-based Mining 2000, has developed what is rated as the biggest international convention and trade exhibition ever held in the country for the Australian mining industry.

More than 120 laptops are stolen or lost every day in Australia while major system breakdowns, tape restoration failures and even sabotage by disgruntled employees play havoc with business data.

For those of you who follow these things, I'm sure you'll agree with me when I say it's difficult to believe The Globe restaurant at the Hilton is now two years old.

Perth-based iron ore miner Portman Limited – which has signed a deal to take 100 per cent ownership of the Koolyanobbing iron ore project – has passed another important milestone in its growth strategy with the official opening of a new $9.5 million s...

PERTH'S new UWA and AIM Senior Management Centre was a ground-breaking initiative for education and business in WA and probably the first of its kind in Australia, according to a founder.

WOMEN make up 49.5 per cent of the working population in the City of Perth, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics' Working Population Community Profile.

AFTER being subjected to various backyard makeover programs and stranded-on-a-desert island scenarios, brace yourselves for a new beast – the home renovation show.Channel Nine debuts two new concept shows this month: Renovation Rescue and Dreamhome, in

BODY Sculpt Personal Training Studios – where the focus is ‘you' – your well being, your fitness, your needs and your timetable.

COFFEE doyenne Patria Jafferies has been named the Telstra WA Business Woman of the Year.

Having bedded down the GST with few early problems, Government attention has turned very markedly to the issue of superannuation.

ADVERTISING professionals who missed AdSchool's restructured training program for 2000 can catch most modules when they are repeated in early 2001.Advanced modules Account Management and Media Planning and Buying will be offered.Other courses plann