Staff Reporters

PILBARA Mines NL telecommunications subsidiary Request DSL Pty Ltd has secured a telecommunications carrier licence, making it the third WA-based telco carrier.

Plans are well underway by Compass Resources NL to develop its Browns polymetallic resource in the Northern Territory.

INTERNET banking is helping small-to-medium enterprises save time and energy, according to Small Business Development Corporation managing director George Etrelezis.

This year’s $8.3 billion State budget is a responsible plan for the future of Western Australia.

WESTEL Group Limited has recently signed a contract with One.Tel Limited for the provision of local and freephone/local rate telephone number portability services by Westel’s subsidiary Concentrix.

AN ONLINE photographic library service has opened a branch office in WA.

INDEPENDENT research house ASSIRT found National Australia Bank has consolidated its position in the funds management industry, receiving the number one ranking in terms of net inflows for the March 2000 quarter.

THE price of cobalt is forecast to slump with detrimentalconsequences for new cobalt-related projects in WA.

COBRA Resources NL’s investment in Internet and telecommunications provider Global Dial has been sweetened by the news that it has been joined on the carrier’s register by Singapore-based construction and property company Low Keng Huat Ltd, which will inj

Perhaps it was the shrine to Princess Diana, or maybe the portraits of Queens past and present on the walls. Maybe it was the sheer amplitude of glossy antiques, bric-a-brac, gilt, crystal, coloured glass, silver, mirrors and a hundred other rococo flouri

BARRON Entertainment and Network Ten have agreed to base the production unit for its new children’s series, tentatively-titled Kat’s Eye, at Ten’s Dianella Heights facility.

OSMERE Ltd has relisted its post consolidation shares on the Australian Stock Exchange as Online Advantage Limited after finalising regulatory approvals for the change.

Lynas Corporation Limited – which recently changed its name from Lynas Gold NL – has made steady progress towards completion of a bankable feasibility study on its Mt Weld rare earths project in WA’s Mt Margaret mineral field.

Two fire protection service providers have admitted misleading clients about services not provided, following investigations into the industry by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

A NEW definition of datacasting and a smoother transition to digital television for both industry and consumers are the key aims of new legislation introduced by the Federal Government.

PERTH-based Swiftel Pty Limited has placed itself in direct competition with newly merged Amcom Telecommunications Limited.

In spite of mining and processing operations at the Bulchina project continuing strongly, Troy Resources NL is pulling out of other peripheral prospecting interests.

Australia is the number one destination for Singaporean, Indonesian and Malaysian property investment funds sent overseas, Peter Thng of HSR Realtors told a joint Property Council of Australia and Chinese Chamber seminar recently.

So much has happened so fast in the past decade in respect of the emergence of the online economy that it is easy to forget some of the interesting responses we have confronted on this remarkable journey.

Deloitte Touche Tomatsu has acquired 20 per cent of the issued capital of Perth-based Eclipse Group.

Sons of Gwalia Limited has had production from several of its mining operations hit by heavy rains.

THE ABILITY to move capital electronically is a key priority for business banking clients, says HSBC head of corporate affairs Colin Neathercoat.

Investors hoping to invest in what could develop as a major gas and oil field in the Philippines have been stymied by Australian Stock Exchange bureaucracy.

Junior explorer Stirling Resources NL has followed the path of its peers and taken a dive into the dot.com sector’s financial waters.

POST Newspapers, Voice News, Herald Newspapers, Weekend Examiner and Echo Newspapers have formed a marketing coalition under the banner of Perth Independent Newspapers.

FEES levied by banks appears to be the greatest small business banking concern according to Small Business Development Corporation managing director George Etrelezis.

Diamond Ventures NL, which has moved from its original aim of being a pure diamond player, has placed its hope in gold exploration and mining in the Kookynie area of WA.

Treasury is continuing with plans to move depreciation benefits from property owners to tenants, with new criteria proposed that could affect nearly every property lease in Australia.

BUSINESSES should already have a GST implementation strategy in place, says chartered accountant and Entrepreneur Business Centre GST expert Anton Gaudry.

WARNER Bros. animation experts will present a talk at the Film and Television Institute in Fremantle on 5 May.

WA BUSINESSES are being called on by the WA Government to play a part in the creation of better communities.

PILBARA Mines subsidiary Request DSL has formally been accepted into the unconditional local loop (ULL) trial by Telstra.