SEZs

Features

Where are the Kuril Islands and why are they so important to Russia and Japan?

A group of islands with a population of only 20,000 have been causing tension between Russia and Japan since the…

Features

How Shenzhen moved out of Hong Kong’s shadow

[caption id="attachment_49631" align="alignnone" width="658"] Shenzhen has gone from fishing village to skyscraper-dotted metropolis in the space of a few decades.…

Features

A guide to England’s eight new free ports

[caption id="attachment_33725" align="alignnone" width="658"] Will ports such as Immingham on the banks of the Humber benefit from the UK government's…

Opinion

Opinion: Free ports are not the panacea Rishi Sunak thinks they are

Free ports are nothing new. In 1931, the leader of the Liberal Party, David Lloyd George, waxed lyrical about them…

Features

What is a special economic zone?

[caption id="attachment_2640" align="alignnone" width="658"] A Buddhist monk looks at a map of a deep-sea port project in Mayingyi, part of…