Tuoitrenews briefs the leading news stories published on September 24:

Society: -- A Vietnamese mother and her child were killed after being hit by two wheels that fell from a container truck in an accident that took place on Tuesday on a section of National Highway 1A running through Cam Xuyen District in the central province of Ha Tinh. -- By defeating 43 teams from 10 countries and territories in the Asia Pacific region, a team of four Vietnamese students from Duy Tan University, based in the central city of Da Nang, have won the first prize at the Taiwan National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering (NCREE), held in Taiwan. -- A local from the central province of Quang Ngai has been fined VND10 million (roughly US$450) for assaulting four journalists who were reporting on sand exploitation at the Nam Phuoc sandbank, located in Nghia Thuan commune in the province, on September 16. -- A large fire broke out around 11pm on Tuesday at the Luxury night club in Hanoi’s Yen Phu District on Tuesday, panicking a number of people. Five people were injured in the blaze. -- Gender inequality in Vietnam continues to increase, as the sex ratio at birth in 2013 was 1.138 male/female (113.8 males born for every 100 females), Deputy Head of the General Department for Population and Family Planning, Nguyen Van Tan, said at a press conference on Tuesday.Sports:

-- Vietnamese swimmer Nguyen Thi Anh Vien won a ‘historic’ bronze medal in the women’s 400m individual medley at the ongoing 17th Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea on Tuesday. Vien finished third behind world record holder Ye Shiwen of China and Sakiko Shimizu of Japan.Business: -- The Ho Chi Minh City Tax Department collected tax arrears from and fined 10,100 local enterprises nearly VND2.9 trillion (roughly US$137 million) in the first eight months of this year.Politics: -- Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong will pay a state visit to South Korea from October 1 to 4, at the invitation of South Korean President Park Geun Hye. -- While receiving Head of the Anti-Corruption Department of Russia’s Presidential Executive Office, Plokhoi Oleg Anatolevich, in Hanoi on Tuesday, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said the recently-signed Memorandum of Understanding on fighting corruption between the two countries contributes to fostering and enhancing the bilateral friendship and cooperation. -- Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong received former Prime Minister and Emeritus Senior Minister of Singapore, Goh Chok Tong, in Hanoi on Tuesday.