Care of the infirm elderly is a soaring problem in China, and Mr. Chen said that he and his wife had established the home in April 1999 to care for people in need.
Maybe the London schemers should restrict themselves to the modest aims of improving the city's mental health through their promotion of relaxed reading, or even see their free giveaways as handy fans, reducing the need for expensive solutions to soaring heat problems on the Tube.
But the accord is unlikely to have a dramatic impact on Hong Kong's soaring unemployment problem, and the effects will not be evident for several more months.Mr Tung can at least be confident that China supports his efforts to revamp the territory's security laws.
Plus, Baltimore has long struggled with a soaring heroin problem, and in the late nineties it had seeped into the clubs.
Gas and oil prices have also soared, causing problems for the elderly, who are more likely to need the heating on during the day in winter.
In the 15 years I have lived in the area, I have seen crime rates soar, drug problems increase, riots, bomb plots and, very recently, direct action taken by communities driven by frustration to squat publicly-owned buildings.
Rates of around 30% year on year meanwhile have been seen in 2007 in the UAE and Qatar.With this level of credit growth and rapid population growth (as expatriates flock to the GCC to tap into the burgeoning employment opportunities), domestic demand has soared creating problems with supply, particularly in the real estate sector.
His concept of a unified theory of cognition (UTC), and his attempt to illustrate a UTC with his Soar problem solving architecture, is exciting because it suggests how scientists might use the computational methods of cognitive science and artificial intelligence to formulate and explore both broader and deeper aspects of intelligence in people and in machines.
Malpractice premiums are soaring, and quality problems are rampant.
In her talk, "Slow Analysis for a Fast-Developing China," she lashed out at China's frenzied economic growth, which she blamed for soaring mental health problems as values erode and families fall apart.
