A SOFTWARE package three years in development has won Combinatorics the prize in this year’s Asia-Pacific Information Technology and Telecommuni-cations Awards mining category.
DESPITE the recent Asian financial crisis the Asian consumer is alive and well. Asia’s halcyon days prior to the crisis have left Asians with a taste for consumer goods.
AN INVESTMENT of $800,000 by the WA Government has netted $3.4 million from the Fisheries Research Development Corpora-tion for thirteen fisheries’ research projects.
Crustaceans are abundant in the oceans off the WA coast, and live happily in the state’s rivers and dams. But when the owners of a traditional wheat and sheep farming property started marketing yabbies, it raised a few eyebrows.
WA’S agribusiness future lies in taking part wholly in the Indo-nesian food industry, not just exporting, according to a report from Murdoch University’s Asia Research Centre.
A PROGRAM designed to reduce car use and make better use of other means of transport has been introduced in South Perth. The TravelSmart program is a marketing campaign promoting the use of alternative transport.
IT IS hoped to foster stronger relations between business and academia when Curtin Business School hosts the inaugural Business Education and Research conference on 14 and 15 October.
THE omission of a safety net clause for contracts spanning 1 July 2000 in the GST legislation could cost WA small businesses nearly $6 million says the Institute of Chartered Accountants Small Business Committee’s Ian Costley.
TOO many companies falsely believe they are safe from computer hacking but it is a real and growing threat to business – and Australia is recognised as having some of the world’s most skilled hackers.
SMALL business needs to learn how the GST will affect them – fast, says Small Business Development Corporation director enterprise development Bruce McFarlane.
