Staff Reporters

WA’S newest telecommunications carrier, Swiftel, has joined forces with Singapore Telecom to launch a major assault on the Perth communications market.

ETHICAL and socially responsible companies are attracting the attention of banks and investment houses with the latest to hop on board being Challenger Portfolio Management Limited, a subsidiary of Challenger International Limited.

FOR A QUICK meal, the Bellhouse Café on Mends Street Jetty in South Perth offers fish and chips take away specials from its outdoor hatch.If looking for a more leisurely experience, select from entrées including field mushrooms grilled in garlic and ch

THE following company personnel changes have been notified to the WA office of the Australian Stock Exchange:

FREMANTLE’S business community came out in force recently to celebrate the achievements of the most successful local businesses at the Fremantle Business of the Year Awards night.

“A Thai fish cake is now exactly that – not a Thai fish cake with a twist.”

Oil producer Anzoil NL is about to move out of its traditional stomping grounds in Vietnam and take to the acquisition trail under a new corporate growth plan.

So much for the mean streets of Northbridge. It wasn’t quite the lawn bowls set, but the groups of young people, the meandering older couples, the wild-eyed men of the street, even the spivs and small time tough guys, were all singularly non-threatening.

PERTH-based Kagara Zinc Ltd has consolidated ownership of its flagship Mt Garnet Zinc project and other exploration projects in North Queensland after reaching agreement with its joint venture partner, Perilya Ltd.

Woodside, naturally, says it will fight the Shell raid in true David and Goliath fashion. It is telling the investment world that it will perform better if left as an independent company and it is just as busy buttering up the news media.

A PROPOSED policy paper for the operation of Internet discussion sites, including web-based bulletin boards, has been released by the Australian Securities and Invest-ments Commission for public comment.

The pioneering commitment of Ausdrill Limited’s group exploration drilling consultant David Stevens to the evolution of the exploration drilling industry in Australia and overseas has been recognised through the award of an Order of Australia – the first

MEAD’S Mosman Bay holds an ‘Oysters and Live Jazz’ night every Friday. Diners receive twelve Albany oysters and a glass of Leeuwin Estate Art Series Riesling for $20.Mead’s lunch menu now offers two courses each day for $29.95. The twilight menu also o

“Recent surveys in the UK indicate 75 per cent of accountants recommend Sage.”

The Perth Convention Bureau has secured confirmed business worth more than $72 million for the State in the past twelve months – a 21 per cent increase on the previous year.

THE LOOSE Box Restaurant in Mundaring has once again swept up WA’s foremost culinary award.

CHANGING social attitudes in Japan are presenting goodopportunities for WA businesses operating in the aged care industry.

COMPAQ has opened a service centre in Perth.

ARKETFORCE has begun major new campaigns for Kleenheat Gas and Hartley Poynton.

THE TOURISM industry’s ‘Oscar’ night, the 2000 WA Tourism Awards for Excellence, will be held on 16 June.

While we’re on the question of Ric Stowe and his Griffin Coal Company, bar-room chatter coming out of Collie indicates that life is about to get somewhat tougher in the coalfields and a new round of cost cutting may be on the way – with interesting variat

JUNIOR hydrocarbon explorer Tap Oil NL is beginning to reap the benefits of an aggressive exploration programme in the Carnarvon Basin of the North West Shelf of WA.

THE AUSTRALIAN information technology and telecom-munications industry’s total income increased 21 per cent between 1995-96 and 1998-99 to $59 billion.

AUTHOR David Michie recently launched his fictional debut, Conflict of Interest, at The Bookcafe.

BEN Franklin, WA State manger of non-bank lender Aussie Home Loans has been appointed to the Board of the Water and Rivers Commission.

It’s not often that outsiders get a glimpse into the very private world of Ric Stowe.

WOODSIDE Petroleum Ltd plans to fast track development of its wholly-owned Enfield oil field in permit WA-271-P on the North West Shelf.

Netcare Telecommunications is set to become the latest local company to be granted a telecommunications carriers’ licence by the Australian Communications Authority.

I READ with some disquiet the comments by your columnist Ann Macbeth in the 18 to 31 May edition about the proposed Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre complex.

CONTAINER trade through Fremantle Port is maintaining strong growth.

SAKURA Ya Japanese Restaurant at 566 Hay Street in Perth offers set lunches from $9.90. Ideal for busy workers, the set lunches include California maki, assorted sushi and sashimi, chicken teriyaki, tempura and gyu don.Other choices include deep fried

THE international diamond industry is being held to ransom over issues related to ‘conflict diamonds’, according to South African stockbroker BoE Securities (Pty) Limited.