A local resident fishes in flood waters in Suao, eastern Ilan county, as typhoon Saola approches Taiwan's east coast on August 2, 2012. Authorities evacuated nearly 600 residents from New Taipei City ... more 

A local resident fishes in flood waters in Suao, eastern Ilan county, as typhoon Saola approches Taiwan's east coast on August 2, 2012. Authorities evacuated nearly 600 residents from New Taipei City in the north and as many from the eastern counties of Ilan and Hualien, which look set to bear the brunt of the typhoon less