(VOVWORLD) - To honor Vietnamese heroes and martyrs, six young men recently volunteered their time to recover priceless photos of soldiers who perished on the battlefield. Many families have benefited by getting an additional keepsake to remember their loved one.

(VOVWORLD) - Fascinated by Vietnamese brocade material and ceramics, Australian designer Cynthia Mann has built a fashion brand named Future Traditions in Hanoi. Cynthia’s growing endearment for Vietnam’s cultural traditions, history, and community has kept the designer here for 14 years.

(VOVWORLD) - “Hello everyone! We are Brown Bear Computers. Our goal is to provide students in remote areas with computers to study online.” That is the motto shared by the Brown Bear Computers group, a charity group created and run by teenagers. For many children in the highlands, life is still lacking, so access to computers is extremely difficult.

(VOVWORLD) - Many students fell behind in their studies during the last school year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Hanoi Youth Union and the Blacasa Education Organization have mobilized volunteers from pedagogical universities to provide free summer classes for Hanoi’s 9th graders to help them catch up with their classmates and prepare for the high school entrance exam.

(VOVWORLD) - Through organ donation, the death of one person can lead to the survival of many others. Lives are transformed and one family's devastating loss can turn into new hope for countless strangers. VOV has the story of a 19-year-old male student with brain death, who gave four people a new lease of life by donating his organs.

(VOVWORLD) - “Mangrove Xuan Thuy” is a fundraising project for mangrove conservation in Xuan Thuy National Park in Nam Dinh province. Initiated by 15 Vietnamese students living in Hanoi and New Zealand, “Mangrove Xuan Thuy” was one of several environmental-friendly projects introduced at a ceremony in Hanoi to kick off this year’s Action Month for the Environment. To find out more about the project, I talked to Pham Ngo Hoang Lan Elizabeth, a Vietnamese-New Zealander at Macleans College in New Zealand, who was one of the project’s founders.

(VOVWORLD) - Traditionally used to decorate wooden items, “son mai,” or lacquer painting, has evolved over the past century to become a freestanding art form in Vietnam. Despite its painstaking making process and high cost, this unique genre has stood the test of time thanks to generations of devoted artists. Today’s edition of That’s Life features Nguyen Minh Phuong, a 30-year-old artist based in Hanoi who wants to master the art of lacquer painting to keep it alive.

(VOVWORLD) - Interested in work related to health, society, and people, Ngo Thuy Anh created HASU, an app for older people. The app was launched in March 2020 and already 12,000 people over 50 are using it. Thuy Anh has been named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 list in Vietnam.

(VOVWORLD) - Captivated by Vietnamese culture, landscape, and people, Charles Daniel Hambleton, a native of northern Virginia in the US, has been living in Vietnam since 2011. He has written a book and creates various art works to archive his memories of the country.

(VOVWORLD) - “Garbage is not worthless”, with this idea, Dr Vuong Thi Lan Anh, lecturer at the Faculty of Chemical Technology, Hanoi University of Industry, has launched the Ralava + solution, with the goal of helping Hanoi solve its trash problem. By dealing with garbage wisely, people can separate waste from the source and recycle what is useful from the garbage.