(VOVWORLD) - Nguyen Hong Duc, a third-year student in the Medical Department of Buon Ma Thuot University in Dak Lak province, invented a device that uses a camera to help doctors place ventilator tubes faster and more accurately, and reduces the risk of COVID-19 infection.

(VOVWORLD) - The campaign of studying and following the moral example of President Ho Chi Minh has been actively responded to by Xo Dang ethnic people in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum. Village chief A Bo of Dak Long commune is a role model in this drive.

(VOVWORLD) - Despite his age, Lam Van Mau of the border province of Lang Son, goes house to house in his area every day, telling people about current pandemic preventive measures. Mau takes seriously the government slogan “fighting the epidemic is like fighting an enemy, each citizen a soldier.”

(VOVWORLD) - General Vo Nguyen Giap is respected by historians and military scholars throughout the world as a great military strategist. His military achievements are still being analyzed and studied by scholars.

(VOVWORLD) - People’s Artisan Mo Thi Kit of Lang Son province has been called “a treasure” of Then singing – the unique folk genre practiced by the Tay and Nung ethnic minority groups in Vietnam’s northeastern region. Kit has spent most of her lifetime collecting, memorizing, and singing thousands of Then songs. She made a major contribution to getting Then honored by UNESCO as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

(VOVWORLD) - Lo Thi Ban of the northern mountainous city of Son La is known for her performances of Thai folk songs. She is also passionate about teaching Thai songs to the younger generation in order to preserve Thai folk melodies.

(VOVWORLD) - Writer Son Tung, who penned the famous novel Bup sen xanh (Green Lotus) based on the life of President Ho Chi Minh, has passed away at the age of 93. Tung dedicated his career to writing about President Ho Chi Minh and promoting his image to the world.

(VOVWORLD) - War invalid Nguyen Quang Toan of Nhu Thanh district, Thanh Hoa province, fought in the American war and, later, in the southwestern border defense war in 1979. After returning from the army, Toan focused on production. Since then, he has created many jobs and reduced poverty in his locality.

(VOVWORLD) - Danh Chanh Da, who was born into a poor Khmer family in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang, worked hard to obtain a college degree and became an outstanding reporter of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA). He recently received a medal for his professional contributions to international friendship and cooperation.

(VOVWORLD) - Y Yoh Kbuor is the village chief of Kmrong Prong A village, in the Central Highlands city of Buon Ma Thuot. At the age of 80, he is still very active in social work.