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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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
To an outsider a $US1 billion blow-out in project costs seems horrific, but to Chinese-based conglomerate CITIC Pacific Ltd the rising expenses are far outweighed by the huge jump in commodity prices
Rising interest rates and global financial uncertainty are having a tangible impact on Western Australia's housing industry, with two sets of economic data indicating a downward trend in the local market.
Bunbury has become the new battleground in the push for deregulated retail trading hours, with the city council planning change despite the objections of most local shopkeepers.
Recent construction projects at Western Australia's public universities have focused heavily on research, teaching and student facilities, but a new development at Curtin University of Technology will be radically different.
West Perth-based developer Cedar Woods Properties Ltd has won a state government tender to develop the Harrisdale Village estate in Forrestdale, through a joint venture with the Department of Housing and Works.
After operating as a private company for 14 years, mining services firm ADG Global Supply Pty Ltd is planning a stock market listing to bring in new money and attract new talent for its growing business.
Advertising and marketing expenditure by Western Australia's public universities jumped 45 per cent in the past year, as the institutions competed with the business sector for the hearts and minds of the state's youth.
Mount Hawthorn could soon be competing with Subiaco and other near-city suburbs as a hub for businesses and as a lifestyle destination for young families.
A mystery company known as Yarri Mining Pty Ltd plans to take stoc market listing hopeful Energy and Minerals Australia Ltd (EMA) to court over a highly sought after uranium deposit, which is claimed to be the biggest outside of the control of the mining
The salaries of Western Australia's academic leaders continue to move around, often appearing to have little to link them to the past year's financial performance of their organisation.
Union membership has declined to 1.7 million people, or about 19 per cent of the workforce, data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics has found.
With less than a week before the culmination of the boardroom battle at WA Newspapers Holdings Ltd, both sides remained in full battle mode ahead of Wednesday's extraordinary shareholder meeting.