Chinese-Indonesia consortium Antam Zhongjin has gained shareholder approval for its $2.50 a share, $505 million take over bid for West Perth-based Herald Resources.
Subiaco-based oil and gas exploration company Sun Resources NL has received record revenues from its US operations during March 2008, providing over A$200,000 of net operating revenue for the month.
Kalgoorlie-Boulder Resources Ltd could start producing gold from its Norseman gold project in 2010 following positive scoping study results that have pegged capital costs at $75 million.
West Leederville-based Whinnen Resources Ltd has entered into a conditional agreement to acquire an 85% interest in Fongo Tongo Bauxite Project in Republic of Cameroon, West Africa.
Subiaco based uranium exploration company Epsilon Energy has entered into a joint venture agreement with Southern Uranium to explore the Pandanus West tenement in North Queensland.
Pilbara nickel explorer and producer, Fox Resources Ltd today announced that China's largest nickel producer, Jinchuan Group Limited, has successfully concluded a strategic agreement to take an equity stake in the company.
Wesfarmers Ltd shares remained in trading halt today after it confirmed it was considering an equity raising - expected to be a rights issue - to refinance $4 billion in bridging finance used to fund its $20 billion takeover of the Coles last year.
Shares in West Perth-based resources company Straits Resources Ltd have jumped more than six per cent after the company unveiled a plan to restructure the business and demerge from its coal-focused Asian subsidiary.
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Increasing construction and labour costs have failed to dampen the prospects of one of Western Australia's major hotel developers, Seashells Hospitality Group, which recently opened its fourth resort and is preparing to expand one of its existing resorts.
NEDLANDS-BASED software provider ISS Group Ltd has announced its biggest ever contract, valued at around $4 million, with Malaysian oil and gas group Petronas.
Education, housing, business regulation and the skills shortage are just a handful of topics that will be touched on this weekend at the 2020 Summit in Canberra.
Last week's takeover of United Credit Union continues a long run of Western Australian financial institutions falling prey to interstate and overseas predators; but surprisingly, this trend has done little to dampen competition.
Self-development will be one of the core topics brought forward at this weekend's 2020 Summit by some of Western Australia's arts delegates, who say the arts industry is about more than just building more centres.
Japanese company Inpex has attracted the ire of environmental campaigners over its planned gas project off the Kimberley coast, yet it won an environmental award at last week's Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA) conference
THE owner of the Dampier-to- Bunbury natural gas pipeline has announced further expansion plans after receiving additional capacity requests from existing and prospective users of the pipeline.
As the federal government's external reference group prepares to hand over its findings on a review of the 457 visa scheme, Western Australia's Technology and Industry Advisory Council (TIAC) is preparing its own all-encompassing review of migration issue
AS a spate of new construction projects get under way across the CBD and West Perth, the City of Perth has announced it will review its planning scheme for plot ratio and building heights.
Azzura Gelati is one of 10 growing Western Australian businesses set to showcase its products at the Food and Hotel Asia 2008 trade event, to be held in Singapore from April 22-25.
INDEPENDENT Practitioner Network Ltd has completed its $32 million acquisition of Fremantle-based medical services company Gemini Administration Services Pty Ltd.
The Western Australian Trade Enquiry Service is operated by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Western Australia (CCI) with the support of the WA Government's Department of I
The steady stream of partnerships between major companies and universities may have the latter downplaying competition for private sector cash, but the overall goal of international excellence has built a healthy rivalry.
Beyond the golden mile of Kings Park Road, a transformation is taking place in West Perth as developers pour money into the once-unfashionable end of the suburb.
Visiting WA Dave Snowden, founder and chief scientific officer, Cognitive Edge, UK, to speak at ‘Global Convergence: Answers to Management and Compliance' on May 1.
The possibility of Western Australia becoming a major international centre for radio astronomy has prompted the state's two major universities to recruit some of the world's top minds in this specialist field
Tensions between the City of Subiaco and the Subiaco Redevelopment Authority (SRA) over the China Green site development have reached new heights, with the former threatening legal action if its request to settle differences with the SRA through mediation
