A collapsed apartment block lies on a river bed in Taimali, in southeast Taiwan's Taitung county on August 10, 2009.

Formosan macaque eats fruit at a park while two women look on in Taitung County, Jan. 11.

Three others were swept away in southeastern Taitung county, including two policemen helping to evacuate villagers.

Today Green Island is an off-shore township under the jurisdiction of Taitung County, divided into the three villages of Chungliao, Nanliao and Kungkuan;

The Peinan Site in Nan-Wang Li, Taitung City, Taitung County was first unearthed by Japanese scholars during the beginning of the twentieth century.