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SINGAPORE — Serious MRT disruptions, each lasting over 30 minutes, more than doubled in 2022 from 2021 even as the frequency of total delays dipped. According to rail reliability statistics just released by the Land Transport Authority (LTA), the mean kilometres before failure — an engineering measure of reliability — rose from 1.994 million train-km in 2021 to 2.09 million...
Life expectancies in developed and developing countries are increasing, with the United Nations predicting the number of centenarians worldwide will rise to 573,000 this year. In the Philippines, two in every 100,000 Filipinos are centenarians as of 2020, and majority of them are women, according to data released by UK-based…
The researchers noted that the amount of help needed by victims will not become clear for some time.