Staff Reporters

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.

PLEXUS International has announced an alliance agreement with StateWest Credit Society.

THE decision by Melbourne-based Plenty River Corporation to select the Burrup Peninsula as the preferred site for its proposed $800 million ammonia and urea plant will be a fillip for Western Australian business.

GRANT Chettleburg didn’t know what sort of job he wanted after leaving school but soon made a name for himself in the horticulture industry.

CABLE & Wireless Optus and Telstra have been recently chosen by the WA Government to supply data communications services to government agencies in remote areas of the State.

ERIC Streitberg is relentlessly pursuing his pipedream of expanding considerably oil and gas output in the Dongara production licence area near the coastal town of Dongara.

PROPERTY Council of Australia past President Gerald Major has been appointed by the Minister for Planning Graham Kierath to the important position of industry representative on the Central Perth Planning Committee.

WA company HotelNet has launched the first installation of its interactive Internet and entertainment system for hotels.

PERTH-based Talon Resources NL has been transformed from explorer to an industrial minerals producer withconsiderable growth prospects.

THERE is more to big and tall sizes than just increasing thenumbers of X’s on a shirt or centimetres on the waist, says Kingsize Menswear director Cameron Blair.

BARNES and Noble are planning on upstaging Amazon.com by offering print-on-demand books.

EMPLOYING more young people is a way businesses can boost their chances of winning State Government contracts.

Earlier this week I delivered a keynote address to a Queensland conference which focused on online communities.

LOCAL swimwear designer Annette Stivaletta is receiving international interest for her collection Stivaletta_all wet.

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.

EDITH Cowan University’s visual arts students recently put on a fashion parade showcasing their experimental talents.

Poor literacy and numeracy skills have been identified as a major reason why young people are increasingly opting out of trade apprenticeships in WA.

Junior oil and gas explorer West Oil NL has had a fillip to its strategy to exploit its extensive hydrocarbon ground in the Timor Sea.

EDITH Cowan University has completed its Service 2000project, the largest switched local area network replacement to be conducted in WA.

Picking up a strong sniff of gold by the Glengarry Resources NL might advance prospects for the Larranganni project in the Tanami/ Granites area of WA.