Staff Reporters

A PROPERTY Council of Australia report has found that good urban design can boost economic returns for property investors as well as improve the quality of the built environment.

ONLINE share market investors' forum HOTcopper's initial public offering has been heavily oversubscribed.

WA WILL step into the new millennium with an “extremely positive” outlook for the resource industry.

SHOPPING centres can benefit from the impacts of e-commerce through strategic planning and flexibility, and can prosper during the ‘e-tailing' era according to the Property Council of Australia.

AUSTRALIA'S new community advisory body on Internet content has been established.

MONOCO Petroleum and its WA partners have reported encountering strong gas shows at 736 metres and oil shows at the interval 781-803 metres in the Cardart-1 well in New Caledonia.

WA FASHION house Pierucci has acquired a building in Adelaide's East End worth more than $1 million which will be ready for retail in late February.

ARGUABLY the world's largest person-to-person online tradingcommunity, eBay, has released a new Australian web site, www.ebay.com.au

PRO:NED has added a new senior executive search service to its non-executive and executive director search and recruitment services.

THE possibility of Virgin Airlines entering the domestic passenger market is good news for Western Australians.

AROUND $7 million is available to businesses in the textile, clothing and footware industry through strategic investment programs, says TCF Resource Centre of WA manager Carol Hanlon.

Contractors to Woodside Petroleum, and that includes about every second business in WA, may be in for a rough time as the big oil and gas producer launches headlong into its cost cutting crusade.

Spectacular natural gas resource estimates – said to eclipse all the reserves in WA – have spurred exploration by Australian Coalbed Methane Pty Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Carbon Minerals NL.

TELECOMMUNICATIONS carrier and infrastructure developers Amcom Telecommunications and FiberTel Limited have merged to create one of the most aggressive listed players in the high-speed data telecommunications market.

CORPORATE fashion trends have diversified greatly over the past twenty years, says Martins managing director Martin Van Kampen.

When I first came to Perth sixteen years ago, I was met at the plane by a journalist from the newsroom I had been brought west to edit.

Despite a quiet year in terms of exploration and production activities, Stirling Resources NL has undergone considerable transformation.

OSBORNE Park-based Demtal Marketing Australia has gained national attention for its web site marketing system.

MANY small businesses will be forced to pay tax on loans they have made to their own businesses under the new tax system.

SOUTH East Metropolitan College of TAFE has recently launched a network course with networking equipment manufacturers 3Com.

For more than twenty years we have been describing the changing nature of work.

ONLINE sales are expected to reach A$14 billion worldwide just in time for Christmas.

A new gold discovery near the Western Queen deposit at the Dalgaranga gold mine in Western Australia has the potential to significantly extend the operating life of one of Australia's most successful medium-sized gold mines.

A MOUNT Lawley-based human resources company has been formed through an alliance of specialist independent HR consultants.

THE STIRLING Business Association celebrated its 25th anniversary with a gala dinner Rendezvous Observation City Hotel.

LIKE business names and trade marks, domain names are now a valuable component of a company's marketing and promotional strategy.

Union Capital Limited, which has been focusing attention on exploration in Papua New Guinea and Queensland, is about to clinch a deal which could lead to development of a large base metals mine in Iran.

A recent study released by Nielsen Media Research showed that click-through rates for banner ads had dropped from 2 per cent to 0.5 per cent, and just months ago many were engraving tombstones for the five year old banner.

UNIVERSITY students have developed a software system for a WA clothing store.

Tension between the top two Liberal politicians in WA could bubble to the surface again soon over the oddest issue, China. Specifically, which China?

Has the long drought ended in the Victoria Petroleum NL camp?This is the question on the minds of analysts watching the current round of exploration by VicPet and its United States affiliate, Kestrel Energy Inc.

MODEM-free access to the Internet and advanced office technologies will soon be available in many of Perth hotels.