Tuoitrenews briefs the leading news stories published on September 17:

Society:

-- Many trees were uprooted and a number of houses had their roofs blown off in Quang Ninh and the neighboring city of Hai Phong in northern Vietnam after Typhoon Kalmaegi made landfall on Tuesday night. There were no reports of casualties. More than 100 foreign tourists had been evacuated ahead of the typhoon’s arrival.

-- A Nigerian national, a contractor for an oil and gas company in Vietnam, has been hospitalized and isolated at Ba Ria – Vung Tau hospital in southern Vietnam after he came down with a fever – a potential symptom of Ebola.

-- The Hanoi Department of Transport and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) are scheduled to issue 200,000 bus e-tickets to public transport passengers on bus route No. 6, Giap Bat – Cau Gie, on October 6 under a pilot program.

-- Four local journalists were assaulted by a group of thugs after they reported on sand exploitation at the Nam Phuoc sandbank, located in Nghia Thuan commune in the central province of Quang Ngai, on Tuesday.

Business:

-- On Tuesday, authorities in the southern province of Binh Duong granted investment to 42 projects at a total investment cost of US$400 million.

-- Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh is on a working visit to the U.S. from September 15-19 in a bid to accelerate negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) and bolster the two countries’ economic ties.

-- A rice company in the Mekong Delta province of Ca Mau could pay a huge compensation to their importer in Russia because they have yet to obtain export licenses issued by local authorities to export rice to the Russian partner.

Lifestyle:

-- Popular Vietnamese singer Ho Ngoc Ha will represent Vietnam at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2014 for Best Worldwide Act

Politics:

-- President Truong Tan Sang on Tuesday hosted a reception in Hanoi to receive Lao Defence Minister Sengnoune Sayalath, who is on his first working visit to Vietnam since taking office earlier this year. Minister Sayalath also met Vietnam’s National Assembly Chairman, Nguyen Sinh Hung, the same day.

-- During a recent meeting with Vietnamese Ambassador to Ukraine Nguyen Minh Tri in Kiev, President of Ukraine Petro Proshenco affirmed that the image of Vietnam is always in the heart of Ukrainian people.