NOT FOR CONSUMPTION: As much as 25 tonnes of the toxic powder has entered the Taiwanese market and been sold to 10 distributors in many parts of the country
By Shelley Huang
The Department of Health confirmed yesterday that potentially toxic milk powder imported from China’s Sanlu Group has been sold to 10 distributors in nine cities and counties in Taiwan. There are fears that some of the milk powder may have found its way into processed or packaged foods such as coffee beverages.

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Typhoon Sinlaku lashed Taiwan yesterday with powerful winds and heavy rains, disrupting flights and train services and cutting electricity supply to almost 50,000 households.

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US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and New York Federal Reserve Bank President Timothy Geithner urged the heads of Wall Street’s biggest firms to find a solution to the plight of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc, signaling their reluctance to use government funds to bail out the investment bank, two people familiar with the talks said.

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TWO TRAINS, ONE TRACK: The fire department said that as many as 135 people were taken to hospital and that the death toll could rise as rescue efforts continue
Emergency crews worked desperately through the night and into yesterday morning, ripping into a mangled train car to search for an unknown number of people trapped in a horrific train wreck in Los Angeles.

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Hurricane Ike barreled into the densely populated Texas coast near Houston early yesterday, bringing with it a wall of water and ferocious winds and rain that could cause catastrophic flooding along the Gulf of Mexico and cripple the fourth-largest US city.

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