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The Chinese majority owner of Moly Mines, Hanlong Mining Investment, has received Chinese government approval for a $US466 million loan to complete financing for the Spinifex Ridge molybdenum-copper project in the Pilbara.

Equinox Minerals has declared its $1.25 billion takeover offer for Citadel Resource Group free of all defeating conditions if it receives an interest in Citadel shares of more than 50 per cent by December 16.

Equatorial Resources has announced plans for an institutional placement to raise $25.6 million to accelerate the company's drilling and exploration activities in the Republic of Congo.

The GFC has changed the game, and it’s time some of our wealthiest individuals wised up.

Some of the arguments against a coal mine near Margaret River ignore the reality of development in the area.

Colin Barnett may have some surprise fellow travellers at the next COAG meeting.

Australia’s resources-led economic recovery has had a major impact on the pay of WA-based executives, with a big rise in the number of million dollar pay packets as share prices bounced back from GFC lows.

THE sacking of a provincial health chief in Canada might seem far removed from Western Australia’s public service, but the news that gained global attention shows bureaucrat salaries are a big issue around the world.

GETTING value for money is a subjective matter when it comes to assessing executive pay.

HE role of chairman at Australian public companies has traditionally been reserved for experienced industry professionals tired of working in an executive capacity and who are keen to bring an independent viewpoint to the company boardroom.

Competition in the housing loans market is being bolstered by a revival of wholesale funding, with Australian Finance Group re-launching its securitisation business and Police & Nurses Credit Society launching its first-ever issue of mortgage-backed secur

PERTH’S property markets are proving attractive to overseas investors, with new research showing office, retail and industrial sectors in Western Australia are undervalued amid rising enquiry levels from offshore investors.

ONE of the top goals of most executives is to grow the size of their business; for some, however, small is beautiful.

THE GFC proved to be a tipping point for the Western Australian Community Foundation, which went into voluntary liquidation in August amid changing corporate sector and government priorities in supporting grass-roots community work, due to the belt-tighte

  THE relatively understated façade of Jackson’s Restaurant belies the critically acclaimed fine dining experience of its interior.

Labor and the Greens have moved quickly to impose an ideological agenda on universities.

The dust is still settling on the issue of executive remuneration after the post-GFC outpouring of shareholder anger.

Governments have been grappling this month with the challenges arising from Australia’s prosperity.

The peak body representing business owners and lessees on Rottnest Island says its members have received positive feedback from visitors to the island about the new 120-room hotel planned for Longreach Bay.

The state's largest independent fuel company, Gull Petroleum, has been acquired by Archer Capital-backed Ausfuel for an undisclosed sum.

Mining giant Rio Tinto has announced another big spend at its Pilbara iron ore operations, as it continues its drive to increase output of the booming commodity.

Woodside Petroleum has revised the cost of its Pluto LNG Project upwards by 6.9 per cent and pushed the start-up date of the project to August 2011.

The National Stock Exchange has approved the appointment of controversial businessman Frank Timis as non executive chairman of African Petroleum Corporation, but subject to unusual rules relating to the company's disclosure and governance.

The state government says Perdaman Chemicals and Wesfarmers' Premier Coal are two potential customers for a new industrial park near Collie.

Lynas Corporation says it is will secure up to $US250 million in funding with the help of a major Japanese trading house to expand production and ensure additional supplies of rare earth products for the Japanese market.

PLANS to develop a major ‘city centre’ at Innaloo have been given a boost after Planning Minister John Day took the rare step of intervening in a long-running dispute between Georgiou Capital and the City of Stirling.

A RECENT decision by the State Administrative Tribunal will allow nickel miner Panoramic Resources to construct a workers’ accommodation camp at one of its mines sites despite objections from the Shire of Coolgardie.

DEVELOPER Finbar Group has reached a joint venture agreement with Heyspring International to build 190 new residential apartments in East Perth.

PROPERTY investment and funds manager Aspen Group has made a profit after selling an office property in inner Melbourne for $33.3 million.

THE Department of Housing has bought the Broome Motel in an effort to address the shortage of cheap accommodation for workers in Broome.

WHEN Tim Salik moved to Australia from Pakistan in 1999, he dreamt of a job that was flexible enough to allow him the time to spend with his family; a not-entirely unrealistic expectation.

ACCOUNTING firm Deloitte’s Perth staff got their hands dirty last week when they took part in the group’s volunteer initiative, Impact Day, for the first time.