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<title>AUDIO: Westside Corporation (ASX:WCL) CEO, Angus Karoll Speaks with Brian Carlton On Joint Venture with Mitsui LNG </title>
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<description><![CDATA[ AUDIO: Westside Corporation (ASX:WCL) CEO, Angus Karoll Speaks with Brian Carlton On Joint Venture with Mitsui LNG ]]></description>
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<title>Asian Markets Overview of March 12, 2010</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Banking shares continued to push the US market higher overnight, despite resources and industrial sectors were hurt by worries that China may tighten its policy to cool the overheating economy after the country's latest inflation data. Consumer price index for February in China rose a faster-than-expected 2.7% in February from a year earlier. Thursday Asian markets closed mixed. Several major markets dropped after Chinese economic data. Japan's Nikkei index was up 1 per cent and Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index inched up 0.1%. Taiwan's Taiex lost 0.4 per cent and South Korea's Kospi shed 0.3 per cent. China's Shanghai Composited gave up most of its early gains and closed with a 0.1 per cent gain.]]></description>
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<title>ABN Newswire Stocks to Watch: March 12, 2010</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ ABN Newswire stocks to watch today include: Iron Road Limited (ASX:IRD), Galaxy Resources Limited (ASX:GXY) (PINK:GALXF), AusTex Oil Limited (ASX:AOK), Beach Energy Limited (ASX:BPT) (PINK:BEPTF), Kairiki Energy Limited (ASX:KIK) (PINK:KAIRF), Magnetic Resources NL (ASX:MAU) and Pluton Resources Limited (ASX:PLV).]]></description>
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<title>Benitec Limited (ASX:BLT) "Graham" Patent Granted In Japan</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Benitec Limited (ASX:BLT) (PINK:BNIKF) today announced that a patent "Control of Gene Expression", part of the Graham patent family of RNA interference (RNAi) patents was granted in Japan. The "Control of Gene Expression patent" is a patent in the foundational Graham RNAi patent family and is related to the '099 patent currently under reexamination at the USPTO.]]></description>
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<title>Atlas Iron Limited (ASX:AGO) Updates On The Aurox Resources Merger</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Atlas Iron Limited (ASX:AGO) and Aurox Resources Limited (ASX:AXO) (PINK:AUOXF) yesterday announced to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) that they have executed a Scheme Implementation Agreement to effect a merger of the two companies by way of Scheme of Arrangement. Atlas will issue Aurox shareholders with one Atlas share for every three Aurox shares they hold upon implementation. The merger has been unanimously recommended by the Board of Aurox and the Aurox Board members intend to vote in favour of the Scheme in relation to their personal shareholdings in Aurox, in the absence of a superior proposal.]]></description>
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<title>Pluton Resources Limited (ASX:PLV) Updates On The Irvine Island Drilling Programme</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Management are pleased to announce that drilling by Pluton Resources Limited (ASX:PLV) has intersected a continuation of visible iron mineralisation west of the current Inferred Resource on Hardstaff Peninsula, Irvine Island, Western Australia (E04/1172).]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:50:47 +1100</pubDate>
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<title>Asian Markets Overview of March 11, 2010</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Dow Jones Industrial Average was marginally higher overnight, supported by financial stocks. But material stocks were under pressure as commodities prices declined. Asian markets Wednesday closed mixed. Singapore market finished 0.8 per cent higher to their a seven-week high after a report showed that Singapore's economy was expected to grow 6.5 per cent in 2010. Japan's Nikkei 225 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index finished flat after moving between gains and losses during the session. South Korea's Kospi ended 0.1% higher. But China's Shanghai Composite snapped a three-day rise and fell 0.7 per cent ahead of the inflation data.]]></description>
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<title>Magnetic Resources NL (ASX:MAU) Commences Seabrook Uranium Drilling And Identifies New Uranium Anomalies At Lake Harvey</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Magnetic Resources NL (ASX:MAU) continues to advance exploration on several of its uranium projects in the southwest region of Western Australia. The Lake Harvey and Seabrook uranium prospects continue to show promise.]]></description>
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<title>ABN Newswire Stocks to Watch: March 11, 2010</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ ABN Newswire stocks to watch today include: Atlas Iron Limited (ASX:AGO), D'Aguilar Gold Limited's (ASX:DGR), Lions Gate Metals Inc. (CVE:LGM) (PINK:LGMFF), Magnetic Resources Nl (ASX:MAU), Universal Resources Limited (ASX:URL), Victory West Moly Limited (ASX:VWM) and ABM Resources NL (ASX:ABU).]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:00:26 +1100</pubDate>
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<title>Kairiki Energy Limited (ASX:KIK) Secures Farm-Out Agreement With TG World For SC 54A, Philippines</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Kairiki Energy Limited (ASX:KIK) (PINK:KAIRF) is pleased to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary Yilgarn Petroleum Philippines Pty Ltd has entered into an agreement with TG World (BVI) Corp. [a subsidiary of TG World Energy Corporation (CVE:TGE) (PINK:TGWEF)] to farm-out 4.9% of its current 35% interest in Service Contract 54 Block A (SC 54A), offshore, Northwest Palawan Basin, Philippines.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:54:05 +1100</pubDate>
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<title>Beach Energy Limited (ASX:BPT) And General Atomics To Evaluate Potential For "Bio Oils And Fuels" Production In The Cooper Basin</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The potential for the oil and gas fields of South Australia's Cooper Basin to produce "bio fuels" and "bio oils" through special land farming techniques which absorb waste CO2, is to be the subject of a study by a new Australian-United States alliance announced today. Beach Energy Limited (ASX:BPT) (PINK:BEPTF) and San Diego-based environmental, energy and defence technologist, General Atomics are to examine the bio fuels and bio oils production option.]]></description>
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<title>AusTex Oil Limited (ASX:AOK) Provide An Update On Oklahoma Operations</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ AusTex Oil Limited (ASX:AOK) advises the following update on operations on leases in Oklahoma; Mayo Moore #7, following completion and testing of the Oswego Lime; Baggett #1-33, well was originally completed for production in the Wilcox Formation at 2200 feet; Baggett #2-33 well has continued to flow oil and gas; Ownby #1 Well preparations for the drilling of the next step out well have been hampered by wet weather.]]></description>
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