Two headline errors

Two errors in AsiaOne's headlines caught my attention. Both relate to subject-verb agreement and appear one after another:

AsiaOne - 10 September 2012

The verb drop should have been drops, since the head noun Number refers to a specific number, such as 12,500, which is singular.

The second error is the verb continues. The head noun Efforts is plural and takes the plural continue.

Incidentally, the online ChannelNewsAsia also ran the story on the falling number of new citizens, but with the correct singular verb drops:

ChannelNewsAsia - 10 September 2012