Staff Reporters

TOP chefs from Australia and around the world will share their secrets at the 1999 WA MasterClass Weekend to be held at the Parmelia Hilton Perth on Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 July.

AUSTRALIA'S immigration program is always well debated and ministerial consultations are held with a range of community organisations each year.

THE Telstra WA Small Business Development Corporation Awards is calling for nominations.

AUSTRALIANS are working longer hours to impress the boss – not because their workload is excessive – a Morgan & Banks survey has found.

THE South African mining giant, Durban Roodepoort Deep Limited (DRD), has continued its drive to gain a significant foothold in the Australasian gold mining industry.

The e-commerce industry is beginning to learn the importance of good housekeeping as they find many ‘linked' pages that don't work simply rot and turn off sales.

Serious newspapers have an obligation to deliver to readers news and commentary which is honestly arrived at and presented without fear or favour. This is the guiding principal of all good journalism.

BIG businesses bullying small businesses are the targets of the latest Australian Competition and Consumer Commission guideline.

THE DEPARTMENT of Commerce and Trade has released a revised version of its Y2K bug action plan booklet, The Millennium Bug Buster.

THE recent significant slide in gold prices has claimed another victim, with AMX Resources NL placing on hold its robust Golden Cities project.

EMAIL is an import-ant tool for chief financial officers of small to medium enter-prises, a survey found.

THE following company personnel changes have been notified to the WA office of the Australian Stock Exchange:

Aquarius Platinum Limited, which will soon commission its Kroondal platinum project near Rustenburg in South Africa, is undergoing a major corporate and domicile restructuring.

PERTH-based CISA Technologies has formed an alliance with international Y2K specialist, The Software Revo-lution Inc.TSRI has been retained by the Boeing company in the US to ensure it is Y2K compliant before 1 January 2000.

KARRIDALE, in the Margaret River wine region, is to be home to a 1,000 tonne capacity winery due to open in December.

THE emergence of the global knowledge economy and the internetworked society has widespread implications for the legal profession.

You may be forgiven for thinking that there is little to say about the GST that hasn't already been written, but although much has been said it's only the tip of the iceberg.

THE best way to fast track your career is to have a trusted, powerful mentor says Monster.com.au interactive marketing director Marcelo Silva.

Consolidated Minerals Limited has unveiled a deal that brings all prospective manganese mining ground within the Woodie Woodie mining centre in Western Australia's Pilbara region under the control of a single company for the first time.

Y2K UNCERTAINTY may well cause an international post-Y2K economic slowdown.

RENOWNED chef and cook book author Charmaine Soloman is the Hyatt Regency Hotel's special lunch time guest for July.

THE WA Government and opposition should stop trying to score points in the Native Title debate and find solutions to fast track ex-ploration agreements and productive mining, says Richard O'Shan-nassy & Co solicitor and native title mediator Marcus Holmes

SOUTH Africa looms as a land of opportunity for WA exporters.Australian exports to South Africa are currently valued at $1,064 million.

MINDING your manners at work is increasingly important with technological advances and global business says Morgan & Banks' John Banks. Mr Banks said many people were now unsure just how to behave appropriately.

PERTH-based Wel-come Stranger Mining Company NL has made what it describes as “an excellent strategic investment” in the e-commerce market.

DEBILITATING computer viruses are becoming the letter bombs of the next millennium.

WA food, wine and aboriginal art has been showcased at a recent festival at the Labourdonnais Waterfront Hotel in Port Louis, Mauritius.

A REVOLUTION is occurring in the retail grocery market with many stores now devoting large areas to ‘home meal replacement' products and high quality delicatessen lines.

When people swallow vitamin pills they rarely consider how much research has gone into making each pill.

WHILE many are concerned the year 2000 New Year's Eve celebrations will provide an opportune time for domestic burglary, the best preventative measure is common sense, says WA Police Department's Inspector Fordham.

PERTH-based construction and maintenance services group PCH Group Ltd has won a contract in the United Arab Emirates to supply scaffolding for a $500 million desalination and power plant being constructed at Abu Dhabi.

THE information technology and telecommunications sectors now represent more than 5 per cent of the gross state product in WA and this figure will continue to grow, according to the Curtin Business School's Institute for Research into International Compet