I am Taiwanese living in south Taiwan. The disater is very serious. A lot of people are missing who live in the moutain. It is really. I am serious. Please save Taiwan.

President Ma is a true piece of crap. He's most likely the worst president alive in Taiwan. I dont know why so many blind people elected him to be the president when he did not achieve anything spectacular even as a taipei mayor. Nothing good has happened ever since he became the president; economy got worse, MRT is f-ing screwed up every single day, and now after the attack of typhoon Morakot, he rejected foreign help. Sure we do have a lot of troops and rescue teams in Taiwan, but it's because of his horrible leadership and incapability altogether with his cold heart for the southern Taiwanese that's why the rescue is delayed. If in any way he's compassionate with how helpless and desperate those people feel, the situation would be much better by now and foreign countries would not have tried to jump in to help. I hope typhoon Morakot serves as a wake-up call for those who still believe in him. Please ask yourself a simple question: isnt it more important in getting immediate help and save more lifes than rejecting it and having more of Taiwanese people die?

oh my god~! hope people in disaster area can be strong and brave.

Thanks all friends who care and bless Taiwan

quote "I am Taiwanese student living in Taiwan. Again, please don't bring political issue in this forum. " unquote

com'on who brought the political issue, we need help and our government shameless turned down the proposal, now, he said he didn't reject the foreign rescue whatsoever, how can we believe?

plz help taiwanese ! Taiwanese who live in south part of taiwan suffer a lot of pain and sadness coz of the typhoon ! now taiwanese get into big trouble !plz help us!

Good Photos

May this time let the people know the love from God.
May God bless all people in danger.
I believe God will save Taiwan.

I'm a Taiwanese and live in Taiwan for over 25 years.
We need help!!! any asistance is appreciated!!

Taiwan is my country. I wonder why the government move so slow. There is a BIG problem with the government.

I'm a Taiwanese and live in Taiwan for over 25 years.
We need help!!! any asistance is appreciated!!

Thank you for your reporter!

what a shocking!

Hi News reporter.
Very good photos and Best composition.

請大家救救台灣!!!
save Taiwan!!!!please!!!

Taiwan really need help.
Please rescue us!!!!
No matter what, Thanks your bless!!

Reply to 553:
People always have rights to judge their goverment, OK? And, several pictures were shooted in China and Philippines, not all in Taiwan, you should read the notes below each picture.

I am the president of Otago University Taiwanese Student's Association in New Zealand, We will be trying our best to fund raise and raise awareness for this catastrophic disaster.
as people of Taiwan we need to band together, rich, poor, green, blue, black and white. show the world that we can do it :)

Dear all,
Please help Taiwan!!
We need help from all of you.
People are suffering from panic and death.
Please send this message to you know who can help.

Best regards,
Taiwanese

oh, my god. I am so sad for this picture. I am Chinese, we are do our best to help our brothers and sisters. come on China, come on World!

PLS SOS Taiwan!
Out government do nothing..

According to CNN news "Typhoon Morakot dumped three meters of rain on southern and central parts of the island. By Wednesday night, Taiwan's National Disaster Prevention and Protection Commission confirmed 103 dead and 61 missing."
Actually, till now, already 108 dead and probably hundred missing instead of 61. And still thousands losing connection.

Morakot brought death and huge disaster to Taiwan people, but KMT government give us another hopelessness.

There're still many unknow villages probably buried but till now, KMT government has not mobilized enough army or manpower to help to relieve the victims of a disaster.
The cold-blooded rain keeps coming every evening, and our hope is dieing out. The mudflows and landslides may happen again any time, but thousands of people still stuck in disaster area.

In city area, Kaohsiung area already bear 4-days water supply suspending. And so does Tainan area. The temperature is getting higher and higher, disease may explode anytime.

We hope the internation mass media can force KMT government to speed up the relieve and the rebuilding.

And we thank for all the blessing from other countries and all the mass media.

Pls help Taiwan, no matter who you are, where you are from!
Taiwan is a beautiful island, and people are so friendly and nice here...
It will take long time to walk thr. this big disaster.
No matter what, we gonna help each other to re-build our home...

God bless Taiwan!!

Those broken-hearted pictures indicate how Taiwan need international rescue.
I know it's not the time to censure our government, but I still want to say that President Ma need to improve their rescue speed!
Please! There is only 72 hours for Gold Save Time!!
Save them and save Taiwan, Please!

Please help Taiwan !!
We still have many people stay in mountain without food,water,electric.
Even than roads has been broken.
Please help us!!
Give us a chance to living

So many people in South TAIWAN have no place/house to live, they can not buy food/water even, because of typhoon MORAKOT.
Any help (Food,Clothes,blanket,Money) is necessary, indeed !
Your efforts will not in vain, Please donate as you can !
let's pray earnestly to the gods for mercy !

So many people in South TAIWAN have no place/house to live, they can not buy food/water even, because of typhoon MORAKOT.
Any help (Food,Clothes,blanket,Money) is necessary, indeed !
Your efforts will not in vain, Please donate as you can !
let's pray earnestly to the gods for mercy !

keep our fingers crossed.
Hope things will get back to normal soon.

Love Taiwan

We need help!!
Taiwan's children need a Clean & comfortable environment after summer vocation !!

Taiwan appreciates but does NOT yet need international help. The Taiwanese people are donating money and human labor in helping themselves. The Taiwanese are good and smart and they can do a great job standing up and learning lessons from the catastrophe. The urgency and intensity of the catastrophe has not reached the level of needing international help, as put by the government. The Taiwanese people need to learn how to trust and follow their leadership, stop being so political and dramatic!

Please! Please save Taiwan! Many villages in Southern Taiwan are still waiting for rescue while our president Ma is still hesitating, even refusing foreign help provided by rescue teams for reasons we don't understand. Please let more rescue teams know that we REALLY, REALLY need help! We hear so much SOS from the villages in the mountains but couldn't do anything. They have no food, no water, no electricity, all transportation shut down, and phones can't work so there's no communication for already 6 days!!! The rescue teams in Taiwan are getting tired, and we need more help.

Please ask more helicopters and rescue teams to come and save us! Those who are trapped might not be able to hold on for any longer! Thank you so much!

Taiwan need help.Don"t care the goverment .
The goverment is nothing never care the people.
I love taiwan nation.

Now TAIWAN is eager for international rescue!
Its Government neglects the yells of suffering people!
PLEASE HELP TAIWAN ! PLEASE...

Guys, if you read the description under each photo carefully you will know that the photos are shooted from many places, not just Taiwan. The author of the photos have descriptions on the time and places for each one taken. The point is, Taiwan is a place we all love, and we really should do somehting to help whether you are in the disaster or not. The author of the photos is trying to remind us wherever the photos are taken the disaster happend to those is under unbearable pain. Irregardless of the government's ability, it's time that we contribute our share and help each other out!! Whether it be money, in person, or sympathy! Just don't be ashamed of anything that you can put in to help!!

My heart goes out to all the families affected.
We are all with you in mind and spirit.
I sorely hope this thought will give you strength.

god bless all of lovely taiwanese.....

I think someone is multi-posting here big time. China is helping Taiwan, and the people of Taiwan needs all the help it can get. Last years' terrible earth quake in Sichuan province was even more horrible than this, and the people of Taiwan gave generously to help their ethnic brothers and sisters on the mainland. Now is the time to return the helping hand. So lets keep stupid politics out of it...we are not just Chinese, we are all human beings.

All that I know about Taiwan I learned from my associate there, who is a very intelligent, honorable and creative developer of software named Willis. He forwarded me these photos and link.
I am a small American businessman working with a small company in Taiwan managed by Willis and his wife.

My heart breaks for the Taiwanese people in this time of natural disaster.
I see the pain, the suffering, the loss on the faces of those affected by the typhoon.
I also see the courage, the compassion and the love on the faces of those helping their unfortunate countrymen.

We are separated by 12 time zones, many thousands of miles, social, political and cultural differences, but still in some ways we are all the same; we want to provide a good home for our children, we want to spend time with those we love and we want our children to grow up in a better world than that which we grew up in.

I have passed on these photos and links to many other business we work with in the hopes many more in the business world will offer as much business opportunity as we can from here in the form of new business, new orders, new opportunities to work with Taiwan businesses and business owners.
Once the water recedes and the cleanup work is over the next job will be to rebuild the economy and employ as many as possible so they can earn money to rebuild their homes and lives for heir families and their futures for their children.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery for the good people of Taiwan.

Please help my country_Taiwan. Our hearts are broken in pieces. Thousands of our brothers and sisters are still trapped into somewhere in the mountain. Please come to my country to rescue our family as soon as possible.

I am also Taiwanese but I can't not take the situations that friends and families of victims cry out for rescue of their families for 5, 6 days. What is president Ma doing?
If as what Mr. Ma administration said we are able to cope this disaster ourself, how come I hear the voice for rescue everyday?
We need you help desperately!

This flood can happen anywhere in the world, if we do not take actions on global warming issue.
By the way, Taiwan's DPP supporters shoud stop attacking central governemnt now, your money grabbing ex-president Chen and southern county local governemnt should be responsible for the disaster.

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/090813/5/1oyll.html
（中央社記者謝佳珍台北13日電）莫拉克颱風重創南台灣，政府請求國際支援需求品項出爐，包括物資運補及傷患後送直升機、消毒水等。行政院新聞局長蘇俊賓今天說，並未如外傳拒絕國際支援。
---Int'l donations welcome
how come everybody is posting TWISTED(or maybe BIASED, to be more precise) information here?
We are not short of DPP volunteers;We ARE short of sincere help.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/world/asia/13taiwan.htm?_r=2

Foreign rescue teams and agencies please insist on entering the country and joining in the search and rescue efforts that have been ongoing since 8/8. Our already meagre resources have not been well utilized and the operations are badly orchestrated. Regardless of what the Executive Yuan and our President says, we need your immediate and kindly assistance in recovering many lost in the flood and those that might have survived but have no communication with the outside world.

The 4th pic is taken in my hometown....where the goverment don't give a damn ~~

Taiwan DOES need international help,
and please pray for us.

Please send more rescuers to Taiwan!! Taiwan needs your help!!
Our president Ma Ying-Jou said to CNN that those residents failed to heed
government's warning about typhoon. But I think these words are just his
excuses to be irreponsible! 7 days had passed since those tradies happened,
but the Ma administration failed to act quickly enough to save those who could have been rescued! Many video clips have shown that some people standing on
the roof after being hit by the typhoon are gone now!! It's a consequence of our
government's poor reacting system to disaster! Moreover, our president even refuse foreign aids to come in to save more people. So many days had passed, as we've seen on TV news, there are still lots of people either missing or waiting for food and water!!! We are feared that more people will die!!!
If you've seen this, please tell your government that Taiwan needs your help!!
We are not that "OK" as our president said to foreign media!!

You could blame anyone or anything but don't keep it too long in your mind! Let's do something as much as we can or say something to encourage people who is desperated! I do hope this will be the time for all of us to stay stronge! God bless all of us HEART!

Heal the world, just make it a better place.
Please give Taiwan people a hand, bod bless Taiwan.

Please help to re-build our home and save the people what they need.

today MSN new in Traditional Chinese version, encouraged all of MSN user to have (#) as a little sun on your user name. Some thing about funds and sending goods to disaster area, but only link of information on the bottom of the news page.
It is not clear article for what MSN really want to only encourage us or they will raise funds to help for the disaster. especially in this very moment. I still not figure out what the hell they was trying to tell us!! so rumors came up that "everyone put (#) on MSN then they will raise fund", so most of people of course did. But now they declare that they only encourage people, and that's it.
So MSN you use our benevolence to promote your self? Is that a Joke to you(MSN)?
ok so I put (S) instead, so the moon god will punish you (MSN)!!!

So photos are from china not Taiwan!!

God bless Taiwaness and Taiwan.
We need more help, our government is not competent enough in this disaster.
Taiwan, go go go.

Please save Taiwan!
This is not what we expected the typhoon brough us, it' s like the hell in sourther Taiwan!!
Nothing can make up those who loss their family.
We DO NEED foreign help~~~
Bless is still a bless, we need real help, pls!

i'm Taiwanese , too!
but i live in north of Taiwan , when i saw these pictures,i really feel depressed .
I hope international friends could give us a hand to help my country reestablish all circumstances.
hopr god bless our world , not just ony Taiwan ,which suffer from horror typhoon.

please help taiwan!
u can't image the view so sad....
u can hearing everyone need help and yelloew why not nobody listening~
please help......

This is my country..........I so sad.

God bless Taiwan
I'm Taiwaness
Many people need help!!!!!

We need help please ...
President Ma giving no care to people ...
He rejected rescue from other countries ...
He didn't even stay in disaster area for one night ...
All Taiwanese think to help each other ...
BUT the most difficulty is no sufficient equippment available ...
Our people starving and dying ...

S.O.S !!!
Please help us !
Taiwan needs help !
It is very urgent !
Please send this message out.

I love Taiwan~~~
Taiwan go go go~~~

I PRAY TO THE EXISTANCE TO HEEL ALL SUFFERERS.

I am a Taiwanese in Taipei, I could tell the reason why KMT's government in Taiwan refused international help offers especially from US martial forces. Because President Ma is afraid of China, Chinese always see Taiwan as part of their land,they just wouldn't tolerate any US Amy landed in Taiwan, Ma knows that, he treat himself as a local governor of China, He doesn't dare to have any movement to provoke Chinese nerve.

Buddaha & GOD...bless Taiwan...please

Help Tauwan!!
Everyone have a good day forever!!

God bless Taiwan and other countries that have been suffering from this disaster.

Cannot help them much but only pray for them

TOP URGENT!!!

Ladies and Gentlemen,

SOS, SOS, SOS, SOS, SOS, SOS... !!!

WE NEED YOUR KIND HELP TO RESCUE OUR PEOPLE AND HOMELAND that has been suffering a disaster of flood caused by the Typhoon Morakot attacked Taiwan 8/7-8/10 last weekend.

We, Taiwanese have been suffering STATELESS for past 64 years but now we are suffering HOMELESS!

The rescue movements carried out by the authority of ROC government are extremely retarded and disorganized, there are still hundreds casualty and survivors remain unattendant in hills and high mountains, furthermore, the authority even REFUSES international rescues help from Japan and USA due to FACE-LOSSING problems!

We sincerely request you to call for international attention by every hours head-line as this is a matter of TOP URGNET!!!

We thank you for your prompt action-taking, we remain,

Very truly,

Richard Kuo
Citizen of Taiwan Republic

ps: for more details of the disaster, pls go to: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2009/08/13/2003451044

All my dearest!
If God bless you, she wouldn't sent you such a horror typhoon! You should acting as a team by yourself, not to blame any of the others!

Taiwan gave his hand to the world many times and need the world's hand this time.

please help taiwan!
please help taiwan!
please help taiwan!
please help taiwan!
please help taiwan!

I am Taiwaness,I think in this moment ,the most important thing is to help those people in need. Never talking about who is wrong or who said TAIWAN no needs any help..If we hope another one could help us,we have to help ourselves first.
Stop auguing.. and think how to help more people and do that you could do as possible.
GOD bless TAIWAN...I always trust!!

Please rescue Taiwan, asks US's helicopter to go to Taiwan to assist, but also has tens of thousands people to be stranded in the mountainous area, already six days.

Help! Somebody help! Help this helpless land and those innocent people!!

Thousands of people become victims of the typhoon and hundreds of people died and were buried in landslide mud.
Millions of people are going to be innocent victims due to the central government's slow action. Six days passed already. The central government and the one on post cares their own reputation and public image more than lifes of its people.

Poor Taiwanese in poor southern Taiwan. God bless us all.

Please help Taiwan !
There're still have thousand people need help!
They don't have enough food water ......
DO NOT listen our president , HE IS STUDIP FOOLISH
WE DO NEED HELP!
I'm Taiwaness! I lOVE Taiwan!

How come?
Think about the Nature
Think about the Environment
Go Go TAIWAN

please help TAIWAN

we need help immediately please
our government didn't do their best ,it really made us angry.
many people in south of Taiwan was trapped .please help them.

Taiwan government has already mobilized, the causes that many people says they need help is most people's motion! However, if foreign goverments' help flood into Taiwan but without coordination, sometime it 'll worsen the situation. Are people forget the lesson of China's earhquake?

Good pictures but tragety caused more seriously
by this disable central government !!
Not doing anything until request?
President Ma is not reliable one!

Go Taiwan~~
Taiwanness will be back!!

Today Ma accepted the help of other countries FINALLY. Those poor people have been waiting for 6 days and they must be very hungry and hopeless. I cannot figure out why he refused the help of other countries at first time, and he even didn't announce the order of emergency to let soldiers help at first time. I believe there must be many people with doubts like what I said. Everyone should know that saving the lives of people in a disaster has a limited time; timing is extremely important for those people. God bless Taiwan! A student in Taiwan

As a foreigner married into a Taiwanese family and resident on the island 8 years now, I think I can say that to any western eyes the actions of the Ma government seem pointedly inadequate. He reminds me of Bush after Katrina in New Orleans. It's amazing to think that any KMT voters (including my in-laws) will vote him in again in 3 years time. Japan, USA and EU readers, please send all the help you can via the Red Cross. This tradegy is bigger than Ma's sense of national pride.

God bless Taiwan
Taiwan's president he said taiwan don't need help ,he is lie.
We need more help.

Taiwan need HELP!
Many people have danger NOW.
Please save us.
Especially people of mountain.
Our rescue too slow,
The avalanche lake will collapse with many people.
So it's very danger! We need rescue them. God bless Taiwan.

We need rescue them

Please! Please save Taiwan! Many villages in Southern Taiwan are still waiting for rescue while our president Ma is still hesitating, even refusing foreign help provided by rescue teams for reasons we don't understand. Please let more rescue teams know that we REALLY, REALLY need help! We hear so much SOS from the villages in the mountains but couldn't do anything. They have no food, no water, no electricity, all transportation shut down, and phones can't work so there's no communication for already 6 days!!! The rescue teams in Taiwan are getting tired, and we need more help.Please ask more helicopters and rescue teams to come and save us! Those who are trapped might not be able to hold on for any longer! Thank you so much!

Taiwan need HELP!
Many people have danger NOW.
Please save us.
Especially people of mountain.
Our rescue too slow,
The avalanche lake will collapse with many people.
So it's very danger! We need rescue them. God bless Taiwan.
We need rescue them

We do need your help !
I had been surviving from 921 earthquake and I had known how strong of the nature power/disaster!
No matter where you are,no matter what you do , you could help us by support whether in financail or ....or you could make a wish ,you could just pray ,for us ,for all human beings.

PLZ HELP US! There are still many people waiting you to save them.My government does nothing. People have no food.Each villages in the south are isolated by the landslide. The airplanes are not enough. Typhoon broke the roads. The rescuers cant go inside and help the refugees. Ma is cold and cruel.SO SAVE TAIWAN,SAVE TAIWANESE, PLZ.

When one reporter of CNN asked him a question about the typhoon, Ma answered that those people caused the severe death because they didn't evecuate from their houses. This is the president of Taiwan. Poor Taiwanese.

i am from south korea, i am so sad.. i love taiwan .
please, don't be too sad. i wanna help them as i can

Please! Please save Taiwan! Many villages in Southern Taiwan are still waiting for rescue while our president Ma is still hesitating, even refusing foreign help provided by rescue teams for reasons we don't understand. Please let more rescue teams know that we REALLY, REALLY need help! We hear so much SOS from the villages in the mountains but couldn't do anything. They have no food, no water, no electricity, all transportation shut down, and phones can't work so there's no communication for already 6 days!!! The rescue teams in Taiwan are getting tired, and we need more help.Please ask more helicopters and rescue teams to come and save us! Those who are trapped might not be able to hold on for any longer! Thank you so much!
ANN

We DO need your assistance. Please SAVE us.

Actually, TWN people need help and not like TWN official said that we goverment can handle the situation.... as you all can see on TV, TWN official didn't ready for the rescue, they all liar!!!

We need your help ~
Help my country , please !!!!!

Hundreds of thousands of villagers are still buried under mudflows and landslides, countless victims are hunger for food and flesh water...
Southern Taiwan has become hell !!
Pls Pls help Taiwan... Wu do need help...
Our crippled and numb government makes a series of mistakes... showing their incompetence ... I can't believe President Ma refuse the assistance from United States and Japan.
We do need foreign professional rescue team as well as equipments to help us ...

Taiwan really needs u guys help, so if u cannot do anything to help. at least u can get this letter to more people to look at. it will increase chances to save Taiwan. so please. please help Taiwan.

All the Taiwanese shall stick together to help each others with or without Government's help.
It is a shame that people's strength is much more practical than the big Boss' at this moment.
God Bless Taiwan.

Slow move! Spineless leadership! Shameless politicians!

That is the goverment Taiwanese have now!!

Please Taiwan needs help

I think many people were so brokenhearted when these screens appeared......I hope our goverment and compatriots to do the best for them....

Thanks for reporting this to the world....
We need help,....
Not only Taiwan needs help...
Please raise public awareness on the extreme tropical storms.
We need not just current intention... We are people alike in New Orleans...

God bless Taiwan, China, Philippines, and Japan......

TW IS GOOD