A $72 million price tag has been placed on the development of Perth-based Tiger Resources Ltd's African copper project with payback for operation pegged at one-and-a-half years.
Bell Potter Securities Ltd has been fined $145,000 by the ASX Disciplinary Tribunal for breaching trading and record keeping rules for the dealing of shares in Victorian company Genetic Technologies Ltd.
Corporate executives who are remunerated via shares and options will continue to be subject to close scrutiny from the Australian Tax Office this financial year, according to Deloitte Reward partner Joe Tropeano.
It may have been a tough past six months for the resource sector but not so according to Standard & Poor's as changes to its S&P/ASX indices reveal a majority of inclusions being resource stocks.
Perth businessman Warren Anderson has been named as a key player in the collapse of fuel pill company Firepower, which left its shareholders millions of dollars out of pocket.
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West Perth-based Zambezi Resources Ltd has fallen short of its $4.1 million capital raising, with less than an eighth of shares on offer subscribed to by shareholders.
In a bid to bolster exploration after winding down its Western Australian mining operations in July, Fox Resources Ltd has hired Newexco Services Pty Ltd to undertake base metals exploration.
Shares in Leederville-based Gladiator Resources Ltd have surged over 46 per cent on a proposal by directors to raise over $1 million to advance exploration programs and acquisitions.
Subiaco-based drug discovery company Phylogica Ltd has signed a joint agreement with researchers in the United Kingdom for the development and commercialisation of novel cancer drugs.
Paladio Group Ltd's order book has been given a significant boost today after its subsidiary, Decmil Australia Pty Ltd, won an $80 million contract by Woodside Burrup Pty Ltd for the Pluto liquefied natural gas project in Western Australia.
West Perth-based Apollo Minerals Ltd has signed a native title agreement with the Ngarluma People, traditional owners of the land where the company's Mt Oscar iron ore project is located.
Perth-based engineering company Emerson Stewart Ltd has boosted its order book value to $46 million after it secured three new contracts with Apache Energy Ltd, Peet Ltd and Straits Asia Resources Ltd.
The Labor Party says it has exposed a shortfall in the Liberal Party's costings for the Princess Margaret Hospital with Labor saying the opposition has only allocated $8 million in its budget as opposed to its $640 million promise.
Bateman Engineering has continued its expansion into Western Australia, signing a deal with Poseidon Nickel Ltd to undertake pre-feasibility work at the Windarra nickel project.
Maddington-based civil contractor Brierty Ltd has signed a letter of intent with iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group for further major earthworks at its port development at Port Hedland in the Pilbara.
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West Perth-based Automotive Holdings Group Ltd has reported a record underlying net profit for 2007-08 on the back of a 4 per cent increase in new vehicle sales.
PERTH'S office market remains the tightest in the world and is becoming more expensive, with the city now ranked 18th internationally on rental rates, according to a report from Colliers International
The state's major political parties go to the polls this Saturday with very different election promises for Western Australia's businesses and industry.
Wheat accreditation for the Grain Pool WESTERN Australian-based Grain Pool, the wheat-marketing arm of grain handler CBH Group, is among the first companies in Australia to be accredited to export whe
The battle between Alan Carpenter and Colin Barnett may be dominating the media during this election campaign, but it could be the minor parties that end up holding the aces in the new government.
Data released last week by the Housing Industry Association showed new home sales in Western Australia fell 24.5 per cent during July – the largest fall of all the states.
Companies that don't have a culture of compliance and policies to deal with bribery in foreign jurisdictions could be vulnerable to prosecution under new amendments to the criminal code.
Uranium mining, nuclear waste dumps and genetically modified foods barely rated as significant political issues when the state election was called last month, yet they have become major issues as the campaign has unfolded.
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 Industry and Resour
While the federal government's proposed emissions trading scheme has become a major worry for many industries, a growing number of companies are seeing the carbon offset credit market as a big opportunity.
