The Employment (Restriction) Act 1968 regulates the employment of a non-citizen in any business, industry or undertaking whatsoever. The Act requires, inter alia, that the employment of a non-citizen in any business in the Federation must be upon the issuance of a valid employment permit. The employment permit so issued is only valid in respect of

Sound is one of the most important tools for classification, recognition and identification of objects in the environment. The raw sound signal is complex and is not suitable to be feed as input to the sound identification system; hence the need for a good front-end arises. The identification rate using the RNN classifier and MFCC is 72.7%, 73.7%,

The level crossing (LX) or railway crossing being an intersection between a public road and a railway line, can be controlled actively or passively. Sound recognition can be used to actively control a level crossing. A system is proposed in this study for the use of sound to control a LX. This proposed system uses Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficient

Given the fact that the courts are moulding the law to the changing needs of the society, this chapter discusses the development of common law applicable to an employment relationship.The courts have now recognised that a contract of employment is neither concerned with trade or commerce nor with profit but more with psychology and identity element

Despite the existence of labour legislations, migrant workers, in certain sectors, are still subjected to physical, verbal or psychological abuse with little or no consideration of their well-being. For example, poor and unsafe working standards, excessive working hours, non-payment or lower payment of wages, forced labour, child labour and sexual

It is recognised and accepted that all workers should be treated with fairness, dignity and equality without distinction whether they are locals or migrants. There are many employment statutes enforced in Malaysia which are applicable to all workers including migrant workers, unless the legislature expressly excluded its application to certain clas

This chapter discusses the qualities of work ethics desired from a Muslim employee, whether local or migrant namely, diligence and trustworthiness. In relation to the above, reference is made to the Qur’an, in Surah al Qasas (28): verses 21 to 27. The verses contain the story of Prophet Musa (a.s.) who had, inter alia, assisted two women in water

The need for communications networks is quite evident in the world today, multicasting has becomes a major way of transferring digital data to huge number of audience. The advantages of multicast in multi-party communications, such as saving bandwidth, simplicity and efficiency, are very essential for new services that combine voice, video and text

Objectives: The aim of this study is to find out the demographic, and clinical profile of frequently re-hospitalized psychiatric patients. The study will determine relationship between particular psychiatric illness and recurrent admissions. This study investigates and collects all relevant data to reflect the factual situation in Malaysian populat

Pakistan because of its geographical location became a front line state in the war against terror since the attack on the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001. Pakistan decided to align with USA to combat the fundamentalist. It’s a war whose main purpose is to save people from terrorism but now lives of Pakistan own citizens are at stake. Inn