An exterminator picks up a trap with dead rats outside a shopping centre in Taipei January 24, 2008. As Taiwan feasts to welcome the Chinese year of the rat, rats will be feasting on Taiwan, officials on the island admit, as controlling the island's age-old rat problem proves all but impossible. Reuters Pictures logo Reuters Pictures 49 months ago

An exterminator picks up a trap with dead rats outside a shopping centre in Taipei January 24, 2008. As Taiwan feasts to welcome the Chinese year of the rat, rats will be feasting on Taiwan, officials on the island admit, as controlling the island's age-old rat problem proves all but impossible.