Chinese Internet giant Tencent has been on a roll recently — for a while last week, it seemed that plenty of other Chinese tech companies wanted to be friends with the firm behind WeChat, a wildly popular messaging service in the country. However, a huge crack appeared in its...

About I-FED Since the 1950’s, the Etheridge Shire in North Queensland, Australia has been recognised for its enormous potential for large scale irrigated agriculture due to its; climate, soil, topography, and abundant and reliable water. Integrated Food and Energy Developments Pty Ltd (IFED) has been established to realise this potential....

Is our Australian grocery market one of the most concentrated in the world? “With one of the most concentrated food retail sectors in the world dominated by the supermarket duopoly, the barriers to making it easy to buy local food in Australia are significant. It is time for Australia...

This week Mines and Money  Group on Linked In presented  4 Perspectives on Chinese Outbound Investment as it relates to  Mining Investment and Capital Raising but it has underlying themes for every enterprise looking to China. This series of interviews comes from Mines and Money Beijing, in which M&M asked...

Australia was the largest and one of the fastest growing project finance markets in the world in 2012, according to Thomson Reuters Project Finance Review.1 Australian-based projects secured US$42 billion of financing during 2012, a sizable increase of 70 per cent compared to 2011. Its value accounted for over...

BoxRED have been mandated to  an Australian company bringing an integration of new and innovative online wagering and social gaming products to the Australian market. BoxRED are to identify and facilitate the introduction of  global investors and/or strategic investors to place between AUD3Mil and AUD5Mil in a pre IPO capital raising....

In 1988 George Wang, “wanting to go somewhere for more freedom,” was contemplating whether to study English in Australia or Canada. Wang, who grew up on Hainan, often referred to China’s Hawaii, decided to ditch Canada in favour of Australia because, he says, “Australia and Hainan are similar”. Both...

How we learnt to stop worrying and love the boom The biggest mining boom in Australian history since the gold rush of the 1850s is about to change shape. The investment phase of the boom, which has seen A$400 billion invested in the last decade, is tapering off. The...

The mining boom: impacts and prospects examines the fears some Australians have about the potential adverse consequences of the 10-year mining boom. People worry about the damage caused by the high dollar, the impact of the boom on non-mining regions and the risk Australia will turn into a quarry economy....

BoxRED is  jointly mandated with an Australian Company and the lead manager BBY (Australia’s largest non-bank stock broker) to assist in identifying and introducing  prospects for the placement of global cornerstones in a proposed AUD100 Mil IPO and to identify and negotiate global off take. The company is focused...