Staff Reporters

To increase its participation in the Bay Courant Project from 15 to 20 percent.

Has closed the private placement of 125 million new ordinary shares and 1 for 2 attaching options to sophisticated investors at a subscription price of 2 ce

THE Master Builders Association believes the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union's enterprise bargaining agreements have been made invalid following a recent High Court

The Goldman Sachs Group ceased to be a substantial shareholder.

Essential Earth Pty Ltd increased its relevant interest from 7,866,137 ordinary shares (20.2%) to 8,455,970 ordinary shares (21.714%).

Takeover offer closed.

Has sold another of its explosive detection devices to Sydney based Advanced Security Systems.

Bruce Tomich has been appointed non-executive director of Burdekin Pacific Limited.

THE Big Issue has secured nearly a quarter of a million dollars in Lotterywest Funding to consolidate and grow its Western Australian operations over the next two years.

Proposed code: ISSIssue price: $0.20

Sentient Executive Gp1 Ltd became a substantial shareholder with a relevant interest of 6,625,000 ordinary shares (18.4%).

Sofcom Ltd increased its relevant interest from 7,866,137 ordinary shares (20.2%) to 8,455,970 ordinary shares (21.714%).

Has teamed with Raytheon Australia to bid for the forthcoming Australian Government tender to build two amphibious ships, which is due to be issued in early 2005.

A general meeting is to be held at 11am on September 28 at 45 Empire Road, Parktown, Johannesburg.

TECHNOLOGY company HarvestRoad has appointed Damien Hass as UK-European manager.

Robert Harry Duffin has resigned as director of Midwest Corporation Limited; Brett Manning has also resigned as company secretary.

QPSX has announced it expects to lodge an appeal against the decision of the Munich Patent Court concerning the validity of the company's German Segmentation and Reassembly patent

LISTED engineering company Clough and international project management company AMEC have been awarded an operations and maintenance services contract for ConocoPhillips' Bayu-Unda

Proposed code: PRUIssue price: $0.20Principal activities: Gold exploration

Ambreen Chaudhri increased its relevant interest from 7,866,137 ordinary shares (20.2%) to 8,455,970 ordinary shares (21.714%).

Commonwealth Bank of Australia decreased its relevant interest from 26,439,892 ordinary shares (14.50%) to 24,526,324 ordinary shares (13.38%).

Lodged response to ASX query.

Explains the changes announced in the Federal Budget in May 2004 to the way you can claim an income tax write-off of grapevines.

Brett Matich has resigned as managing director of Aztec Resources Limited.

CHANGE Corporation has added Andrew Crampton and Chris Stevens as a principal consultant and head of its Microsoft Navision practice respectively.

ManufacturerPrice: $570,000 plus stock

Proposed code: MALIssue price: $0.20Principal activities: Exploration and development of mineral sands.

Entrust Private Wealth Management Pty Ltd became a substantial shareholder with a relevant interest of  3,208,851 ordinary shares (7.57%).

Queste Communications Ltd increased its relevant interest from 7,866,137 ordinary shares (20.2%) to 8,455,970 ordinary shares (21.714%).

1,330,000 ordinary fully paid shares will be released from escrow on September 12.