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STATE Scene only rarely considers issues that can be categorised as international affairs.

OH the outdoor life. My day of rest this weekend was spent lending a hand to a couple of aspiring local vignerons that needed to attend to their bird problem.

Planning and Infrastructure Minister Alannah MacTiernan responds to Joe Poprzecny's assertion

FOR most businesses in WA, banking is conducted through the State's big five – BankWest and the four national banks, ANZ, Commonwealth, National and Westpac.

THE Minim Cove development and the East Perth Gasworks stand out as the State's highest profile contamination locations of recent times – due to their massive clean-up costs and high level of public awareness.

AUSTRALIAN businesses are renowned for being unhappy with their banks but not doing much about it.

A MALAGA-BASED manufacturer has recently signed a deal with Japanese manufacturer Kawasaki to supply the Japanese market with special beach cleaning technology.

THE opening of a new four-level, 9850 square metre manufacturing plant and imminent appointment of a new chief executive at the Gold Corporation mark an exciting new phase for the Perth Mint.

A RAPID growth in the number of one and two-person households will be one of the defining trends of the next decade, according to the WA Planning Commission.

PERTH food supply group Sealanes has engaged the local community in its efforts to ease the passage of a proposed 25,000 square metre development in South Fremantle.

OPPORTUNITY through adversity could well be the catchcry of WA's tree farming industry.

City dwellers prone to a purchase or two at a continental deli rejoice. One of the city's best has opened a new outlet, as Julie-anne Sprague reports.

THE ageing of Australia's population has been widely predicted. Less well understood is the commercial and social impact of this change.

THE news that Umberto Tinelli is opening a new restaurant, Rigoletto, just minutes away from his former establishment, Campo de Fiori (now known as Gala Restaurant), does not worry Gala's new owners Hans Lang and Marianne Kempf.

THERE is one country that will stand apart from all others in the international tourism market over the coming decade.

On his way back down south for another vintage David Pike turns his mind to the weighty topic of the emergence of regionality in WA's wine growing centres.

FEDERAL Government pressures and proposed new access laws could bring a multi-billion dollar boost to WA's renewable energy industry.

FIFTY-SEVEN financial institutions currently provide approximately 720 different debt finance products for small business, according to research group Cannex.

CONSIDER It Done Personal Concierge Service – the name of this Subiaco business says it all.

THE loan products available to small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) have changed substantially over the past few years.

THE next serve of snapper you buy may never have been in the ocean.

AS January 2003 recedes we approach the Gallop Government's half-way mark.

MORE than 25 different species are farmed in aquaculture enterprises in WA, according to the WA Fishing Industry Council.

COMPANIES often spend thousands of dollars registering a domain name but many remain unaware that it can be lost overnight through simple administrative errors.

ONE of the big movers in the IT sector this year will be the mass adoption of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, according to technology analyst groups.

THE University of WA has adopted the Callista Student Management system to replace technology developed in-house.

WA telecommunications management company Stratatel Limited has signed two new MobileFleet clients.

AMNET Limited has signed a licence agreement with RMIT University to conduct the RMIT English Worldwide course at Amnet's Chongqing HaiLan University in China.

IT may have recently been hailed as a benchmark for community broadcasting, but WA's nearly four year old Channel 31 is fighting for its life.

The Australian economy is constantly changing, with new industries emerging to replace the old. Mark Beyer looks at the forces driving change and identifies sectors with high growth prospects.

WESTERN Australian artists are being invited to apply for industry development funds to produce short animation works.

THE decision to name Professor Fiona Stanley as Australian of the Year is a very important one for WA.