Established in April 1993, the zone enjoys all the preferential policies stipulated for economic and technological development zones of coastal open cities.

The policy stipulates five criteria that may overcome that presumption:

Malaysia's 20-year new economic policy, which expires in 1990, stipulates that stakes in a local company held by foreigners cannot exceed 30 percent.

The policy stipulates that verbal consent is required for any sexual contact or conduct that is not "mutually and simultaneously initiated."

Then in 2000 a new policy stipulated 50:50 distributions of secondary students between general and vocational secondary education, and this was later decreased to 40 percent.

The policy also stipulates that the district can disapprove club names and requires parental consent for membership in clubs.

Those policies stipulated that retailers who accepted subsidies from music companies for advertising CD's could not promote the items below an agreed price.

The policy stipulates that firefighters caught once using drugs are fired unless they have come forward to report their problem.

All policies now stipulate that they must have run for between three and six months before claims will be considered - and most bar self-employed people altogether.

The policy stipulates that attacks be confined to economic, military and police targets.