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Uranium produced by Vancouver's Uranium One Inc. (TSX:UUU) will help provide power to Japan's largest city. Uranium One Inc. has entered into a long-term agreement with a Japanese consortium to buy up to 20% of Uranium One's available uranium.

Pacific Building Systems' pacific homes division has won a contract to build 48 townhomes in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar.

Vancouver's Lignol Energy Corp. (TSX-V:LEC) and subsidiaries of Suncor Energy Inc. (TSX, NYSE: SU) have cancelled a joint venture to produce a commercial ethanol demonstration plant in Grand Junction, Colorado.

Delta-based Avcorp Industries Inc. (TSX:AVP) is cutting approximately 100 jobs, or about 12% of its workforce due to a softening order book and rate reductions from its major customers.

While Canadian manufacturers have seen record layoffs this month, the industry is bracing itself for a darker future, according to a recent survey by the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters association.

Canadian CEOs are far more confident about revenue growth in their businesses over the next few years than chief executives around the world, according to a new PricewaterhouseCoppers LLP Global CEO survey.

The BC Pacific Salmon Forum wants broad changes to how wild and farmed salmon are managed in the province.

Kelowna-based QHR Technologies Inc. (TSX-V:QHR) has completed its acquisition of the financial software division of Winnipeg-based Momentum Healthware Inc. for $5 millio n.

Metro Vancouver's office vacancy rate inched upward in 2008 as the prevailing economic decline muted overall demand, according to Avison Young's year-end office market report. The region's average vacancy rate rose to 5.

North Vancouver's A&W Revenue Royalties Income Fund (TSX:AW.UN) reported a 7.5% increase in sales during its 2008 fourth quarter, which ended December 31, 2008. Store sales in the income fund's royalty pool increased 12.