Australia Day Races 2011

This Wednesday, January 26th, Aussies around the country will celebrate Australia Day and in the world of racing there is plenty to get excited about with five Listed events highlighting the 2011 Australia Day race programme. Warwick Farm Racecourse in Sydney are set to host a top day’s racing headlined by the $100,000 Listed Australia Day Cup (2400m) where a 10-horse field will face off. The 2011 Australia Day Cup is scheduled as Race 6 at Warwick Farm on Wednesday, the entries lead by Read more [...]

Foreign buyers locked out in sales crackdown

Three were in Sydney, with other sales thwarted in the Byron Bay district, the Gold Coast, Melbourne and Perth. The most expensive was a $6.4 million house on Victoria Road, Bellevue Hill. The proposed purchase by Jun Qiu was blocked on January 5 by the compliance and real estate screening unit of the Treasury's foreign investment division. The planned purchase of a $2.3 million house at South Golden Beach, near Byron Bay, by an English couple, David and Angela Wright, was also Read more [...]

One Year Later, The Best Horror Film…

One Year Later, The Best Horror Films of 2009 Posted By : Meh, Sunday Jan,23 2009 was a banner year for horror in my books. There was a ton of great films released to appeal to just about every type of horror fan and considering we just released the community list for Top Horror Films of 2010 I figured it was worth taking a look at what you all voted as the best horror films of 2009! Since we launched our new ranking system thousands more of you have voted to it makes sense Read more [...]

Patterson Lakes ABC Learning Centre mistakenly on closure list

AFTER yesterday being told the Patterson Lakes ABC Learning Centre would be shut down, parents and staff at the centre today learned a white knight will continue its operation. Receivers for the ABC2 Group yesterday mistakenly listed Patterson Lakes as one of the eight Victorian ABC centres that would be shut down on May 15 - an announcement that devastated the centre’s staff and parents. Related story: Melbourne childcare centres to close But new operator Jan Taylor last night made Read more [...]

Tesco promise on listed prison

Published on Sun Jan 23 17:29:56 GMT 2011 A SCARBOROUGH councillor has welcomed a reassurance from supermarket giant Tesco that a proposed development in Dean Road will preserve historic listed prison buildings. Concerns were raised by residents in the area when they received a letter from Scarborough Council’s planning department which proposed Read more [...]

Bourses propose to probe balance sheets of listed cos

FE ReportLeaders of bourses Sunday proposed to investigate "suspicious" balance sheets of publicly listed companies and bring their financial statements of publicly under transparency.The suggestion came at a meeting with the Finance Minister AMA Muhith at the state guesthouse-Padma, where all key market stakeholders were present.The discussants also came down heavily on the book building method, saying some companies yanked huge money illegally out of the stock market through this method.Merchant Read more [...]

Sri Lanka: Environmental Resources to announce platinum subsidiary sale-Analyst

The all time popular stock since 2009 among Sri Lanka’s listed companies - Environmental Resources Investment PLC or much popular GREG had recently sold its major stake in a platinum company through its offshore investment company, Environmental Resources Ltd. in British Virgin Islands, according a top stock market analyst in the country. The company will announce the sale of its platinum mining firm’s stake according Director Research Sarath Rajapakse at the Capital Trust Securities. Director Read more [...]