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Perth-based Straits Resources Ltd has acquired a significant stake in a Madagascar coal project for a total of US$45 million ($51.35 million).

Perth-based Westgold Resources Ltd has appointed geologist Andrew Beckwith to the position of managing director, following the resignation of chief executive and executive director Tony Martin.

Perth-based biotechnology company pSivida Ltd has sold its food science subsidiary pSiNutria to UK-based venture capital group, Intrinsiq Materials Cayman Ltd, in a deal worth about US$5.18 million ($5.9 million).

Grange Resources Ltd has announced today that the company and its joint venture partner have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the global engineering and technology corporation Metso Minerals Ltd for the Southdown Magnetite Project.

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Diversified property player Aspen Group Ltd says its solid balance sheet and conservative debt position has placed the group in a "sound position", despite the volatility and uncertainty prevailing in the listed property sector.

Clough Ltd, in a three way joint venture, has secured work on the $345 million Gladstone to Fitzroy pipeline project in central Queensland.

New Western Australian Liberal leader Troy Buswell came under attack today from both the Labor government and former coalition partner The Nationals.

Mt Pleasant-based Comet Ridge Ltd has launched an entitlement issue to raise up to $4.3 million in extra funds for its projects in the United States and Australia.

Curtin University of Technology has appointed prominent former federal politician Professor Stephen Martin as its deputy vice-chancellor strategy and planning, replacing professor Greg Craven.

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Subiaco-based uranium miner Deep Yellow Ltd plans to dual list 100 per cent of its issued ordinary capital on the Namibian Stock Exchange on January 23.

The state government has imposed a raft of additional conditions on Magellan Metals before it can proceed with its bid to ship containerised lead through Fremantle.

Engineering and construction contractor Clough Ltd has confirmed that Woodside Ltd has approved the initial expenditure of up to $30 million for preliminary works for the LNG jetty berth of the Pluto LNG Project.

Hythane Company LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Perth-based Eden Energy Ltd, has been selected by the Indian Oil Corporation to supply and install the first public hydrogen/Hythane dispensing station in India.

West Perth-based Emerald Oil & Gas NL has reached an in principle agreement with Capital Investment Partners Pty Ltd to raise up to $2.025 million for exploration and production activities in the United States and Western Australia's Canning Basin.

Paladio Group Ltd has announced that two of its subsidiaries have won a further $7 million in new orders, taking the total value of its new orders in January 2008 to $30 million.

Almost 99% of Western Australian employers intend to maintain or increase their current staff number during the first three months of 2008 according to the latest Hudson Report Employment Expectations survey released today.

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National rail freight operator, Pacific National, has signed a longterm lease agreement with the state government to secure an additional 38 hectares of land adjoining its Kewdale site.

Perth-based Patersons Securities Ltd is set to launch a resources-focused fund, the second product for the fledgling asset management business launched late last year.

A light rail network connecting East Perth and Subiaco is the subject of a report released this month by the Department of Planning and Infrastructure.

The Australian cricket team has been a wonderful example of professional sport at its best and worst in recent years.

The Perth industrial property market may have enjoyed significant growth in 2007, but property analysts say this year is unlikely to deliver the same returns, despite supply remaining fairly tight.

The median Perth house price rose 1.1 per cent to a record $466,000 in the December quarter, slightly higher than the previous peak recorded in the March quarter last year.

After a 20-year career with Ernst & Young, Lui Giuliani has left the accounting group to establish a private equity firm with ex- KordaMentha executive Oren Zohar, Monadelphous chairman John Rubino, ex-Water Corporation chairman Tim Ungar and the director

Many of Alan Bond’s supporters reckon one of his flaws was being too far ahead of the pack.

Westnet joint owners and directors Barry Mitchell and Peter Brown have sold their Geraldton IT services company, Mitchell and Brown Corporate, to marketing and web development agency Market Creations Pty Ltd.

Wictoria Park-based building company, Westwide Developments Pty Ltd, is making headway with its move into land development, preparing to develop 110 hectares of land in Baldivis over the next few years

WESTERN Australia’s biggest independent assay group, Kalgoorlie-based Kalassay Group, was sold this week to a company controlled by UK company Inspicio Group for $26.5 million.

The state government has backed the development of a major new timber recycling centre designed to reduce the amount of industrial waste going into landfills.