Briefs of some of leading news stories published on Tuesday (September 16) in Tuoi Tre Newspaper that will be carried today on Tuoitrenews.vn:

Politics:

-- Indian President Pranab Mukherjee is on an official visit to Vietnam, aiming to lift the trade turnover to US$15 billion.

-- Vietnam has made no breakthrough in fighting corruption, said Do Van Duong, standing member of the legal committee of the law-making National Assembly.

Society:

-- Yesterday, the national electricity grid reached Ly Son Island, 25km off the coast of the central Quang Ngai Province. The under-sea cable network costs VND652.5 billion (US$31.4 million).

-- The content of poisonous chemicals in illegally-imported cigarettes Jet and Hero and Vietnam has been warned to be at a high level that can cause respiratory troubles, inflammation, and vascular problems.

-- A draft frame on land price of the government fixes the maximum price of housing land in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City at VND162 million (US$7,800) a square meter. The minimum price of housing land is in the Central Highland provinces, at VND15,000 ($0.7) a square meter.

-- 200 rescue staff joined a rehearsal yesterday on the water route Saigon – Vung Tau in District 9 of Ho Chi Minh City. The event was organized by the Vietnam Maritime Administration.

-- Two-month-old infant Le Anh Tam in the central highland province of Dak Lak died on September 13, 80 hours after being injected a Quinvaxem vaccine.

-- Prime Minister yesterday instructed to evacuate people in Hai Phong City and Quang Ninh Province in the north when Typhoon Kalmaegi was heading towards the coast from the East Sea.

-- Serious traffic congestion has occurred for many days at the gateway into Ho Chi Minh City from the Mekong Delta provinces because of the construction of bridges Ong Buong 1 and 2 on Hong Bang Street in District 6.

Business:

-- Vietnam Airlines suggested to keep the starting price of its share at VND22,300 when the agency goes public. It is planned to make its initial public offering in November this year.

-- Vietnam may increase exporting its agricultural products as banana, pineapple, litchi, mango, and cucumber to Russia in the coming time because Russia is mulling to ban importing the products from EU. The trade turnover between Vietnam and Russia reached US$4 billion last year and is planned to score $7 billion in 2015.

Sports:

-- The Vietnamese national U-23 football team beat Iran 4-1 yesterday at their opening game in group H of the 17th Asian Games held in Incheon, South Korea.

Education:

-- Classrooms of well-known schools in Vietnam are often ‘more stuffy’ than normal schools because each houses around 50 students a class while the standard number issued by the Ministry of Education and Training is 35.

-- Ho Chi Minh City has decided to grant an allowance of 25-35 percent of the salary rate for kindergarten teachers.