Below are some of the main stories published today, September 21, in the Vietnamese press

Politics -- When addressing the Vietnam-Denmark Business Forum in Copenhagen on September 20, President Truong Tan Sang spoke highly of Danish enterprises’ presence and contributions to Vietnam’s socio-economic cooperation. He confirmed Vietnam’s policy of incessantly improving the investment environment for foreign players to facilitate their long-term, effective and sustainable operation in the country. The same day, Queen Margethe II hosted a farewell ceremony for the President to mark the ending of the guest’s state visit.Society

--  Packing winds of up to 221 kph, with gusts of over 220 kph, super typhoon Usagi is moving between west-northwest and northwest at 20 kph towards the East Sea and will likely be seen there this afternoon, September 21, the National Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting Center reported. -- Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has agreed to the Justice Ministry’s proposal to posthumously confer the title of “Honorary Citizen” on the late French doctor Alexander Emile Jean Yersin (1863-1943). He is remembered in the world as the co-discoverer of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague or pest. In Vietnam, he was credited for finding the site for the town of Dalat (300 km northwest of Ho Chi Minh City) in 1893. He participated actively in the creation of the Medical School of Hanoi in 1902, and was its first director, until 1904. -- A 5-year-old child died after receiving an injection of Cetotaxim for treatment of pneumonia at the Nhi Duc Pediatrics Hospital in northern Hai Phong City yesterday. The hospital said that the child died from an anaphylactic shock, while the child’s family blamed the death on doctors’ negligence.  -- A 12-kg liquid petroleum gas (LPG) cylinder suspiciously exploded at a house in southern Binh Phuoc Province on Friday, causing severe burns to a 28-year-old woman and her two children. All the patients were taken to hospital and police are investigating the cause of the incident.    --  A 30-year-old man, Ha Quang Tiep, stabbed his lover, a 26-year-old Dao Bich Thuong, and Thuong’s sister at the victims’ rented room in Nhon Trach District, Dong Nai Province,  yesterday. Tiep also stabbed himself. All the three were taken to hospital and Thuong’s sister died later, while Tiep and Thuong were in critical conditions. Business -- The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has agreed for four city-based hotels to install slot machines, a popular form of gambling, to serve foreigners. These hotels are Rex, Majestic, Dong Khoi and De Nhat, which all belong to the Saigontourist Holding Company (Saigontourist), one of the leading tourism corporations in Vietnam. -- 87 percent of the samples of rice vermicelli taken form markets in southern Ca Mau province have been found tainted with tinopal, an optical brightener used for papermaking, detergents and cleaners, the provincial Health Department reported. Tinopal is banned from used as food additives by the Health Ministry.  -- A waste treatment complex was put into operation in Ben Cat District, southern Binh Duong Province. The complex, which has been built at a cost of €16.65 million, of which 43 percent is Finland’s ODA, can daily produce hundreds of fertilizers from garbage discharged by over 10,000 companies in 28 industrial parks in the province.   Lifestyle --  On the 7th death anniversary of  Pham Xuan An (1927-2006), who was a Vietnamese general with nickname "Hai Trung" or "Tran Van Trung", a metal signboard was installed at the Continental Hotel on Dong Khoi Street, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City. The signboard’s content reminds everybody that the late general, who worked in South Vietnam as a reporter for Reuters, TIME magazine and the New York Herald Tribune during the Vietnam War, had worked at the hotel until April 30, 1975, when the Vietnam War ended.  Sports --   Vietnam's top badminton star, Nguyen Tien Minh, the world no. 5,  defeated his Indian opponent, world no. 30 Ajay Jayaram, 2-0 in the quarterfinal round on Friday to make it into the 2013 Japan Open Super Series semifinals, where Minh will face  world no. 1 player Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia, who smashed the host player Jun Takemura the same day.