Staff Reporters

SAKURA Ya Japanese Restaurant at 566 Hay Street in Perth offers set lunches from $9.90. Ideal for busy workers, the set lunches include California maki, assorted sushi and sashimi, chicken teriyaki, tempura and gyu don.Other choices include deep fried

THE international diamond industry is being held to ransom over issues related to ‘conflict diamonds’, according to South African stockbroker BoE Securities (Pty) Limited.

AUSSIEHOME.COM did well to beat a high-turnover business such as AdultShop.com in the 2000 IT&T Awards Best New Innovation in E-Commerce category – especially given the company has only been around for six months.

DONATING to a charity is not only tax deductible but socially beneficial, says Australian Red Cross manager of public affairs Saskia Verschoor.“Donating to an organisation such as Red Cross not only offers tax benefits, it’s also a great investment in

THE SHADOW Minister for Trade and Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate Peter Cook will address the WA International Traders’ Club in a luncheon forum entitled Challenges and Opportunities in International Trade in the New Millennium on 16 June.

The worst restaurants and the best restaurants are equallywelcomed by food writers. They make writing easy. It says a lot about contemporary restaurant criticism that a writer only really hits his straps when he has something marvellous to say or, on t

THE RECENT 11th Perth Art Directors’ Club Awards followed the visually striking theme of The Year of the Golden Dragon.

THE RECENT 2000 Asia Pacific Information Technology & Telecommunications Awards gala presentation evening yielded more than a few surprise wins.

UK trade development has a new face – British Trade International.

THE HEALTH Department has signed a newfive year contract for the provision of information technology for the WA Government Health System.

HE AUSTRALIAN Securities and Investments Commission has won an International Public Relations Association award.

PERTH’S first commercial kitchen consultant is now available to assist the foodservice industry.

Speaking of problems, can anyone make sense of the new look being adopted by stockbroking firm Hartley Poynton?

PERTH-based junior Nido Petroleum Limited has brought its third oil well into production on the Zhongyuan redevelopment project in China.

AN online rental marketplace offering both real estate agencies and private owners free advertising has recently been launched.

THE HUNT is on for a host for STW9’s new local game show Initial Reaction.

THE following company personnel changes have been notified to the WA office of the Australian Stock Exchange:

PERTH’S most popular ad man has died at the age of fifty-seven.

PERTH-based diamond explorer Majestic Resources NL has completed a due diligence on the its newly acquired Masons Deposit in South Africa and plans to start mining diamonds in the third quarter of this year.

WEB design company INature Australia Pty Ltd was pretty chuffed with its win in the 2000 IT&T Awards Games/Arts/Media and Interactive Marketing category.

OVER recent weeks there have been some extraordinary claims made about plans for the future of King Edward Memorial Hospital.

THE PHILIPPINES’ ambassador to Australia Delia Domingo-Albert will visit Perth on 19 June to address a Challenge Bank Women In Business Unit seminar.

2000 will go down as one of the better red vintages for the Riverland range, according to BRL Hardy winemaker and manager Paul Kassebaum.“It has also been another record vintage, with an increase in the total crush of 10 per cent on 1999 figures,” Mr K

AusGem International Ltd looks well placed to achieve its aim of raising $6 million by offering twenty-four million shares at 25 cents per share in its float and listing.

Regional Community Award – Edith Cowan University for its Albany Gateway projectBanking & Finance Award – EftNet Technologies for its 13PAID serviceIntelligent Technologies Award – PiVOD Technologies Pty LtdGovernment Award – GetAccess’ WestOne O

CHANGING social attitudes in Japan are presenting goodopportunities for WA businesses operating in the aged care industry.

COMPAQ has opened a service centre in Perth.

ARKETFORCE has begun major new campaigns for Kleenheat Gas and Hartley Poynton.

THE TOURISM industry’s ‘Oscar’ night, the 2000 WA Tourism Awards for Excellence, will be held on 16 June.

While we’re on the question of Ric Stowe and his Griffin Coal Company, bar-room chatter coming out of Collie indicates that life is about to get somewhat tougher in the coalfields and a new round of cost cutting may be on the way – with interesting variat

JUNIOR hydrocarbon explorer Tap Oil NL is beginning to reap the benefits of an aggressive exploration programme in the Carnarvon Basin of the North West Shelf of WA.

THE AUSTRALIAN information technology and telecom-munications industry’s total income increased 21 per cent between 1995-96 and 1998-99 to $59 billion.