A collapsed hotel building is seen in floods after Typhoon Morakot hit eastern Taiwan on August 9, 2009. The six-story hotel collapsed and plunged into a river Sunday morning after floodwaters eroded its base, but all 300 people in the hotel were evacuated and uninjured, officials said. [Xinhua]

A hotel building leans before falling in a heavily flooded river after Typhoon Morakot hit eastern Taiwan, on Sunday, August 9, 2009. [Xinhua]