Foreign employees to be registered in biometric system before illegal ones

PUTRAJAYA: The Cabinet wants the two million legal foreign workers in the country to be registered and included in the biometric system before starting on a similar exercise for the illegal ones, said Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.

By MAZWIN NIK ANIS and SARBAN SINGH 

newsdesk@thestar.com.my

Witness tells court that millionairess believed driver fixed camera in bathroom

SHAH ALAM: A close friend of Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya told the High Court here she had a hunch something bad had happened to the millionairess during a phone conversation on the night she was believed to have been murdered.

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Malaysia Case Study

Malaysia is, in many ways, an atypical country. It is hard to categorize and neither developed nor developing, or both, depending on the region. It is characterized by great disparities within the country and faces the dilemma of ensuring its regional and global competitiveness in ICT while at the same time ensuring equitable ICT access in rural areas.  Thus there are projects such as the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC), a government-driven initiative to develop a Malaysian Silicon Valley, as well as the Internet Desa, a program to install Internet centers in rural areas.

The Internet is developing rapidly in Malaysia, helped by some of the lowest dial-up rates in the world (around 40 US cents per hour). As a result, there were some 1.2 million Internet subscribers—the majority residential—at the end of 2000 with an estimated 15 per cent of the population using the Internet. Broadband access is predominantly via leased lines. Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) technology is being tested but is not yet widely available. Pay television service is mainly through Direct-to-Home satellite technology so cable modem access is not an option in Malaysia. Another option for broadband access is through fixed wireless but there are a number of technical and regulatory challenges to overcome in this area.

An ITU team, consisting of Vanessa Gray, Michael Minges and Lucy Firth, carried out field research for Malaysia from 2-6 April 2001. The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (CMC)—the country’s Information and Communication Technology (ICT) regulator—served as counterpart and organized meetings with relevant government and industry organization.

See also the Malaysia Broadband Case Study, preparedby the ITU’s Strategy and Policy Unit (SPU).

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