Tuoitrenews briefs some leading news published today:

Society:

-- Opening a medical school at a university in Vietnam is as simple as buying a bread, said leader of a university in Ho Chi Minh City.

-- Van Huu Thiet, former deputy chairman and secretary of Da Nang Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Association, has been arrested on fraud charges, Senior Lieutenant Tran Phuoc Huong, office manager of Da Nang Police Department, announced on Sept 17.

-- Ngo Quang Truong, director of a company in Hoc Mon district on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, was sentenced to death for being the mastermind behind the murder of his business partner Dang Xuan Sy at a court held in HCMC on Sept 17.

-- A tropical storm is forecast to be located about 160km eastern of coastal areas in Quang Tri and Quang Nam central provinces on September 18.

-- Eight among 16 Vietnamese fishermen onboard a fishing boat that collided with a Singapore-flagged ship on September 16 still remain missing and are presumed dead.

-- Two young girls, one is 14-year-old and the other is 10, were dead in a fire when their parents locked their house’s main doors to go to a market.

-- Six Vietnamese-owned clinics and three local doctors in Binh Thanh district, Ho Chi Minh City have been fined VND127 million in total for violations of the regulations governing their practice.

Sports:

-- Vietnam’s U23 national football team beat Hungary’s Testveriseg football club 4-1 in an international friendly game on Sept 16 during their training trip in Hungary in preparation for the SEA Games 27 to be held in Myanmar.

Politics:

-- Genaral Tran Dai Quang proposed to further strengthen cooperation between law enforcement agencies among countries in the region and the world, especially information sharing and the exchange of experiences at the 9th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Transnational Crime, which opened in the Lao capital of Vientiane on Sept 17, according to VNA.

-- Economic cooperation will act as an important driving force to consolidate and tighten the fine relations between Vietnam and Hungary in the time to come, said visiting Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang while attending the Hungary-Vietnam Business Forum held by the two countries’ Chambers of Commerce and Industry on Sept 17.

-- In related news, the two countries have signed agreements on criminal extradition and the transfer of sentenced persons during State President Sang’s official visit to the European country, according to VNA.

-- Japanese Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera left Hanoi on September 17, concluding his official visit to Vietnam at the invitation of Minister of National Defence, General Phung Quang Thanh, according to VNA.