PETALING JAYA: The government should make employers only deal with registered licensed private employment agencies (APS) to prevent migrant workers from being abused by unscrupulous parties, says the National Association of Private Employment Agencies Malaysia (Papsma).
SINGAPORE - Current satellite technology such as the Global Positioning System (GPS) that can track the whereabouts of dementia patients or special needs individuals are often imprecise with a margin of error of up to 10m, meaning the person one is looking for could be on the opposite side of the road or in a different building.
The Singapore Land Authority (SLA) is now trying to plug the distance gap with a competition dubbed the GNSS Innovation Challenge, which will be launched on Thursday (Feb 25).
Working together with private space-technology company Singapore Space and Technology Limited (SSTL), SLA wants tertiary students to develop a small enough device, worn on the wrist, that can more accurately pinpoint where the wearer is, with a margin of error of less than a metre.