(VOVWORLD) - It has been more than 3 years since former US President Barack Obama had bun cha (grilled pork noodles) with late celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain in Huong Lien restaurant at 24 Le Van Huu street, Hanoi. Ever since, the restaurant has been dubbed as the “Obama” grilled pork noodle restaurant, jam-packed with locals, expats, and tourists. Let’s head to the restaurant to find out what Sara Drago, an Italian tourist, thinks about her very first lunch of the Hanoian authentic grilled pork noodles.

(VOVWORLD) - Is it possible to go back in time without a time machine? Nguyen Duc Loc, a Vietnamese 9X, travels to the past everyday as he restores ancient Vietnamese attire worn hundreds of years ago before his grandparents were born. Loc even established a company to pursue his passion of bringing the past back to life.

(VOVWORLD) - Every Sunday morning, when people often spend time relaxing, in a coffee shop in District 10, Ho Chi Minh City, nearly 40 doctors and technicians, nurses, and medical students gather together to share specialized knowledge of resuscitation. The founder of the “Resuscitation Coffee” program, Doctor Đặng Thanh Tuấn, Head of Resuscitation Department, Children’s Hospital 1, Ho Chi Minh City, said this is an opportunity for medical workers to share their knowledge and experience.

(VOVWORLD) - Practicing yoga is proven to significantly improve mental and physical health. In today’s edition of That’s life, yoga teacher Nguyen Hieu will share several useful tips for doing yoga at home.

(VOVWORLD) - Thien Nhan & Friends program was established 8 years ago to help organize genital reconstruction surgeries for Vietnamese children suffering severe urological birth defects and rare urological conditions. Over the past 8 years, the program has gathered growing support from the public helping unlucky Vietnamese children to have a normal life. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 14.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none}

(VOVWORLD) - Having lived in a humble rental house in Hanoi for several years does not stop student Hoang Quy Binh of the Hanoi University of Science and Technology from thinking big and going big. For some people, success in your early 20s might mean obtaining a university degree. For others, it is having a stable job or finding a lover. For Binh, he devotes his youth to a series of volunteer clubs and projects to help disadvantaged people.

(VOVWORLD) - “Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor,” said Greek tragedian Euripides. Being rich and successful is a common ambition among young people, which they spend most of their time and effort pursuing at any cost. But have they ever wondered how much their youth costs? 32-year-old writer Rosie Nguyen proposes an answer in her book entitled ‘How much does youth cost?’

(VOVWORLD) - In April, reporters from newspapers and other news media across Vietnam visited soldiers and residents of the Truong Sa (Spratly) island district and the DK1 Platform. One of their most memorable experiences was producing a special news bulletin on ship KN 490 of the Vietnam Fisheries Resources Surveillance. Without professional broadcast equipment, the bulletin, conveying love from the mainlanders to Truong Sa, made the 200 people onboard eagle to listen every day.

(VOVWORLD) - In today’s That’s life edition, follow our reporter Ha Ngan to Maison Marou – “a café, patisserie, and bean-to-bar factory in Hanoi’s diplomatic quarter”. “Marou” is the combination of the names of two founders Samuel Maruta and Vincent Mourou. 2 French guys quit their jobs after they met during a trip to Nam Cat Tien National Park, where they tasted Vietnamese cacao for the very first time in 2010. Though their experience in food industry was zero, the pair were determined to bring out the best of locally sourced chocolate in Vietnam. Their efforts paid off with worldwide recognition including the New York Times which dubbed Marou “the best chocolate you’ve never tasted.”

(VOVWORLD) -Vietnam is listed among the five worst polluters of ocean plastic waste, discharging between 280,000 and 730,000 tons of plastic waste every year into the ocean, according to the United Nations. Campaigns to reduce plastic waste are trending big at the moment. The recent photo exhibition ‘Save our seas’ by photographer Lekima Hung is one example.