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The article offers new briefs related to the business scenario of the Asian countries including Japan, and China. A China Merchants' stock exchange was opened in Shanghai, China, with the aim of dealing in Chinese government bonds, and the stocks of leading Chinese banks, public utilities, and similar securities. According to the representatives of the Ford Motor Co. in Japan the company is considering the establishment of a manufacturing plant within the country.

The article deals with the decision of British firm Jardine, Matheson & Co. to end trading with China. Following the Communists' victory in mainland China, several British firms such as Butterfield & Swire and Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corp. had the misguided notion that they could do profitable business with Communist leader Mao Tse-tung. The foreign firms faced big taxes, confiscations and bans against layoffs.

The article looks back at the developments in the U.S. and around the world in 1900. It describes how the U.S. and other countries celebrated the New Year. Momentous events in 1900 include the development of the first powered flight of a heavier-than-air machine by Kitty Hawk Orville and Wilbur Wright, the Boxer rebellion in China, and the Boer War in South Africa. The growth of J. Pierpont Morgan's U.S. Steel Corp. and Samuel Gompers' American Federation of Labor are also highlighted.

This section offers world news briefs related to business as of May 1936. Japan is continuing with its plans for economic penetration on mainland Asia, which include the operations of Japanese shipping companies in Chinese waters. Brazil has completed the shipment of its first cargo of iron ore to Cardiff, Wales. The Soviet Union will send out a commission to study the production of typewriters abroad.

This section offers international news briefs on the business sector. In Great Britain, Prime Minister Harold Wilson is anticipated to hold the spring election in the hope to increase Labor's majority in the House of Commons. President Fidel Castro of Cuba has supported Russia in its dispute with Red China by accusing the Chinese of blackmail, treason and economic aggression. Western Europe has change its diplomatic style to agree to disagree approach as manifested in the Luxembourg accord that ended the deadlock of the Common Market.

This article focuses on the causes of the recent uprising in Taiwan. According to a report, eighteen months ago the Nanking government had a chance to make Taiwan the showpiece, which Japan had planned it to be in the greater East Asia sphere. A relatively efficient Japanese bureaucracy had monopolized the islands agriculture, trade, and Industry, gearing them to Japan's economy, but in so doing, it had helped Taiwan achieve a high industrial and agricultural level. Taiwan was, and is, about thirty years ahead of Mainland China in industrial development, with more factories than any Chinese province except Kiangsu. Although it suffered damages during war.

The article presents several articles that were published in various issues of the periodical. The article discusses the pro-Chinese circle in this country are alarmed by the wide sale of "Chinese silk" here, sponsored by Chinese business men. While they have no evidence that the silk doesn't come from China, they do know there is very little Chinese silk available; and in any case they are certain it will cripple the boycott movement by making it impossible to spot a violation of the boycott. Great concern over the development has been expressed by government officials in China. The article also focuses on Florida. Florida's Governor made the headlines last year with his bitter opposition to federal anti-lynching legislation; he insisted that the states could handle the problem.