Staff Reporters

ERIC Streitberg is relentlessly pursuing his pipedream of expanding considerably oil and gas output in the Dongara production licence area near the coastal town of Dongara.

PROPERTY Council of Australia past President Gerald Major has been appointed by the Minister for Planning Graham Kierath to the important position of industry representative on the Central Perth Planning Committee.

WA company HotelNet has launched the first installation of its interactive Internet and entertainment system for hotels.

PERTH-based Talon Resources NL has been transformed from explorer to an industrial minerals producer withconsiderable growth prospects.

THERE is more to big and tall sizes than just increasing thenumbers of X's on a shirt or centimetres on the waist, says Kingsize Menswear director Cameron Blair.

BARNES and Noble are planning on upstaging Amazon.com by offering print-on-demand books.

EMPLOYING more young people is a way businesses can boost their chances of winning State Government contracts.

Earlier this week I delivered a keynote address to a Queensland conference which focused on online communities.

LOCAL swimwear designer Annette Stivaletta is receiving international interest for her collection Stivaletta_all wet.

Union Capital Limited, which has been focusing attention on exploration in Papua New Guinea and Queensland, is about to clinch a deal which could lead to development of a large base metals mine in Iran.

A recent study released by Nielsen Media Research showed that click-through rates for banner ads had dropped from 2 per cent to 0.5 per cent, and just months ago many were engraving tombstones for the five year old banner.

UNIVERSITY students have developed a software system for a WA clothing store.

Tension between the top two Liberal politicians in WA could bubble to the surface again soon over the oddest issue, China. Specifically, which China?

Has the long drought ended in the Victoria Petroleum NL camp?This is the question on the minds of analysts watching the current round of exploration by VicPet and its United States affiliate, Kestrel Energy Inc.

MODEM-free access to the Internet and advanced office technologies will soon be available in many of Perth hotels.

EDITH Cowan University's visual arts students recently put on a fashion parade showcasing their experimental talents.

Poor literacy and numeracy skills have been identified as a major reason why young people are increasingly opting out of trade apprenticeships in WA.

Junior oil and gas explorer West Oil NL has had a fillip to its strategy to exploit its extensive hydrocarbon ground in the Timor Sea.

EDITH Cowan University has completed its Service 2000project, the largest switched local area network replacement to be conducted in WA.

Picking up a strong sniff of gold by the Glengarry Resources NL might advance prospects for the Larranganni project in the Tanami/ Granites area of WA.

CHEFS are in big demand on the eve of one of the biggest summer seasons the hospitality industry has ever faced.

OSBORNE Park-based magnet wholesaler Aust-mag has become the first WA company to be named Australia's best micro-business.

THE first Australian online business directory has been established with more than one million listings.

Lynas Gold NL's gold ambitions in the Ashburton Mineral Field have been given a shot in the arm.

THE first ever ranking of Australia's most popular web sites has been compiled by Internet research company IMR Worldwide.

THE possibility of Virgin Airlines entering the domestic passenger market is good news for Western Australians.

AROUND $7 million is available to businesses in the textile, clothing and footware industry through strategic investment programs, says TCF Resource Centre of WA manager Carol Hanlon.

Contractors to Woodside Petroleum, and that includes about every second business in WA, may be in for a rough time as the big oil and gas producer launches headlong into its cost cutting crusade.

Spectacular natural gas resource estimates – said to eclipse all the reserves in WA – have spurred exploration by Australian Coalbed Methane Pty Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Carbon Minerals NL.

TELECOMMUNICATIONS carrier and infrastructure developers Amcom Telecommunications and FiberTel Limited have merged to create one of the most aggressive listed players in the high-speed data telecommunications market.

CORPORATE fashion trends have diversified greatly over the past twenty years, says Martins managing director Martin Van Kampen.

When I first came to Perth sixteen years ago, I was met at the plane by a journalist from the newsroom I had been brought west to edit.