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This section offers international business news briefs. Japan announced that it will open a central bank in Peking, China which will lay the groundwork for monetary reform in all of China under Japanese occupation. The provincial government of Quebec has purchased a gold mine to be used as a practical training school for young miners. English River Pulp Co. will start construction of a large pulp and paper plant in Northern Ontario.

Focuses on the conflict between India and Pakistan. Discussion on the possible consequences of Beijing's control of the Indian subcontinent and the Himalayas; Information that the Chinese Communists are certainly aware that contingency plans for these operations exist, and for that reason they will restrict their maneuvers to the controlled provocations, troop deployments, demands and threats that they have lately been using.

The article reports on the economic development program by Peiping, China. It relates the confession of the city that the program is way behind schedule and its 1958 statistics on the great leap forward were grossly exaggerated. It describes political troubles to be faced by the program in Communist Party ranks.

Focuses on the climate of fear in Hong Kong, China, due to increasing disintegration and cruelty. Factors suggesting an anti-Communist attitude in Hong Kong; Mental turmoil due to capitulation of Macao and continuing Communist disturbances; Complexity of the nature of fear; Businessmen who fled Hong Kong due to fear; Aims of Peking, China.