When it comes to food policy, Vietnam faces a double health burden: The country has seen a rising number of children with obesity in urban areas, while the number of malnourished children remains high.

The Vietnam Meteorological and Hydrological Administration as built a project to enhance the National Centre for Hydrometeorological Forecasting’s capacity to generate warnings on thunderstorms, lightning, storms, and rain.

 Vietnamese women’s football team put ten goals past Singapore in the second match of the group round of the 2018 AFF Women’s Championship in Indonesia.

 Most credit institutions reported good results in the second quarter of this year, and expected their business performance throughout 2018 to be better than the previous year. 

 The Ministry of Finance led the way in e-Government development in 2017, with more than 20 million requested records under online processing, according to a report on Vietnam’s e-Government development in 2017.

 Vietnam’s total revenue from retail sales and services in the first half of this year has maintained high growth since the beginning of the year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

 The FIFA World Cup that now enters the quarterfinals has inspired humour in artists as funny football cartoons and caricatures have now become an added delight for each game. 

 Hanoi hopes to create a new driving force for the local culture industry, a sector with untapped potential.

Honda Vietnam will present nearly 2 million helmets to first graders nationwide in the 2018-2019 academic year under a programme announced on July 5.  

 Police in Mai Son district, the northern mountainous province of Son La, recently arrested a man trafficking drugs.

 Vietnam splashed out 790 million USD to import 2.43 million tonnes of fertiliser in the first half of this year, a year-on-year increase of 21.8 percent in value and 1.2 percent in volume.

 Mollis organic towels of Phong Phu Corporation have received “very good response” in the market after being launched last year, a sign that premium products are becoming more popular in Vietnam.

 The Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap has chosen six craft villages for preservation to develop tourism.

 A Japanese court on July 6 sentenced Yasumasa Shibuya to life in prison over the 2017 murder of a 9-year-old Vietnamese girl in Chiba prefecture, according to the Kyodo news agency. 

 Leading theatres and art troupes in HCM City are working to preserve cai luong (reformed opera) by using young actors in their new productions.

 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the provincial People’s Committees of Ha Giang, Vinh Phuc and Thua Thien-Hue on July 6 signed project agreements totaling 223.87 million USD for the Secondary Green Cities Development Project. 

 Save Vietnam’s Wildlife (SVW), in cooperation with Cuc Phuong National Park in the northern province of Ninh Binh, has successfully released 25 Sunda pangolins (Manis javanica) into a safe habitat for the species.

 As many as 885 agricultural enterprises were established in the first six months of 2018, raising total firms in this sector to 8,667, reported the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

 The IPP Grand Harvest Day took place in Hanoi on July 6, concluding the four-year implementation of the Vietnam-Finland Innovation Partnership Programme (IPP) Phase 2.

  The Vietnamese cashew sector is calling for an 800 million USD credit package from commercial banks to better serve its exports, as heard at a seminar held in Ho Chi Minh City on July 6.