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Finding the right people to manage Western Australia's technology companies is like finding a needle in a haystack, according to Titan Bioventures managing director and Phylogica non-executive director Harry Karelis.

Already home to mining giants Rio Tinto, Xstrata and Anglo Gold Ashanti, Argentina is considered to be Latin America's next worldclass mining region, after Chile and Brazil, with its relatively underexplored but highly prospective gold and silver resourc

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.

A Bayswater business that started from the family home just more than a decade ago has joined the growing list of small to medium enterprises across the state to benefit from the mining boom.

THE state government has allocated $700,000 to widen a 43-kilometre stretch of road on South Coast Highway between BHP Billiton's Ravensthorpe Nickel mine and Munglinup Bridge.

One of the buzz phrases of the 1980s and 1990s was “the now generation”.

It's hard to believe that, just five or six years ago, the Perth International Arts Festival was in a rebuilding phase after a multi-million dollar loss had shaken the morale of the festival team.

FUNDS associated with New York commodities hedge fund Ospraie Management LLC have revealed substantial stakes in two major Western Australia companies, both outside the group's previous purely mining

Former state Liberal leader Matt Birney's recent announcement that he won't be seeking re-election for the seat of Kalgoorlie means the Liberals, in less than three months, have lost two former leaders from their parliamentary ranks

Tucked away between Trinity and Carillon arcades in the underground walkway connecting St Georges Terrace with the city's malls is a modest looking cafe-cum-lunch bar that packs a very healthy, tasty, punch.

The Western Australian government is touting for school cleaners, gardeners and tourism workers amid chronic worker shortages in the booming state.

The Perth International Arts Festival is the oldest annual international multi-arts festival in the Southern Hemisphere.

West Perth-based Transit Holdings Ltd has completed a placement to raise $2 million to sophisticated investors for exploration for haematite mineralisation and working capital.

Rio Tinto Ltd has reported record annual output for key commodities in its fourth quarter 2007 operations review, including a 9 per cent increase in its attributable iron ore output to 145 million tonnes in the calendar year.

Large employers are finding it increasingly tough to find suitable workers in the tight labour market, and in some cases are being forced to retrain staff, a survey has found.

Wesfarmers Premier Coal Ltd and Blackham Resources Ltd have ended their dispute over the Scaddan Energy Project tenements near Esperance, by signing a joint venture agreement to develop the project.

Perth-based Montezuma Mining Company Ltd is seeking to raise up to $3 million to fund an accelerated exploration program at its Peak Hill gold mine near Meekatharra.

VDM Group Ltd subsidiary, Wylie & Skene Pty Ltd, has won new contracts with Rio Tinto Ltd and Fortescue Metals Group Ltd in the Pilbara totalling $14.5 million.

The volume of owner occupier home loans in Western Australia jumped by 4 per cent in November, despite coinciding with the Reserve Bank of Australia's most recent interest rate hike.

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Perth-based gold exploration company Scotgold Resources Ltd has made a positive debut on the Australian stock exchange today, after sucessfully raising $4.9 million via its November public offer.