Tuoi Tre News briefs you on some of the leading news stories that are published today, September 6, in Vietnamese media.

Politics -- The Vietnam-Vatican Joint Working Group will convened its 5th meeting in Vietnam’s capital of Hanoi from September 10 to11, focusing on measures to promote the relations between the two sides, Foreign Ministry Vice-Spokesperson Pham Thu Hang said on Friday. The Vietnamese delegation will be led by Deputy Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son, while the delegation from the Vatican will be led by Under-Secretary for Relations with States Antoine Camilleri.

Society -- The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court on Friday sentenced 41-year-old Phan Cao Tri, the boss of Tan Hoang  Phat, a sex trade ring that operated under the cover of a massage center in Thu Duc District, Ho Chi Minh City, to 12 years in jail on charges of “illegal arrest, custody or detention of people,” and “extortion of property.” Tri’s five accomplices received sentences from 1 to 10 years in prison.

-- The People’s Committee of the northern province of Lao Cai, where a serious traffic accident between a sleeping bus and a 4-seat car occurred on September 1, killing 12 people and injuring 41 others, urged concerned agencies to issue an official conclusion about the cause of the accident before September 20, said the committee chairman, Doan Van Huong.     -- Two young men died  at the Nhan Dan Gia Dinh Hospital Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday, a day after they were hospitalized after being choked with water while swimming at a swimming pool in the city's Thu Duc District. The two victims drank alcohol before going to the pool, according to some other young men who arrived at the pool along with the victims, police said. -- Police in the south-central city of Nha Trang is hunting a man who slashed a police officer, 39-year-old Nguyen The Thinh, on Thursday when Thinh was pursuing him after seeing him snatch a handbag from a woman on a street in the city. The man, who was carried by another man on a motorbike, slashed Thinh on his left arm with a scimitar after Thinh kicked him down to the ground.

-- Twenty children have died after receiving body organs transplanted at the Pediatrics Hospital 2 in Ho Chi Minh City since 2004, the clinic reported at a meeting held on Friday to mark the 10th year of organ transplant at the hospital.   

Business -- Many foreign groups wish to invest in the project to build the Long Thanh International Airport in the southern province of Dong Nai, said Transport Minister Dinh La Thang. These foreign groups include including Samsung and Incheon and some Japanese corporations. Notably, the ADPi, a French group, said it can make a total investment of  direct investment of US$1.5 million in the project, including $500 million as an direct investment and the other as loan capital. -- Economic police and market controllers in Ho Chi Minh Cioty on Friday discovered and seize 14 packages of  smuggled mobile phones and iPads worth more than VND2 billion ($94,400) carried in a van of Bo Cau Joint Stock Company located in Tan Binh District. The goods had been transported from the Mong Cai border gate in northern Quang Ninh province to Hanoi, where the goods continued to be carried to HCMC by air.Education -- An exhibition on education and vocational training of 21 APEC countries kicked off on Friday in Hanoi, within the framework of the APEC Ministerial Meeting on Human Resources  that took place the same day in the capital city. The exhibition is aimed to introduce teaching aids and  advanced education models in the world to Vietnamese teachers and students. Sports -- Two semi-finals of the 2014 U.S. Open Tennis will take place on Saturday (September 6) between Serbia’s Novak Djokovic and Japan’s Kei Nishikoron and on Sunday between Croatia’s Marin Cilic and the Switzerland’s  Roger Federer.  

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