(VOVWORLD) - At 2 a.m. every day, the charity kitchen of Sa Dec General Hospital in Dong Thap province is busy, with dozens of volunteers cooking porridge and rice to be distributed to poor patients early. At 3 a.m., 38-year-old Nguyen Thanh Xong begins his routine, collecting donated vegetables from the market and taking them to the hospital, where he helps the volunteers cook and deliver the meals.

(VOVWORLD) - Thach Thia Se Ray, a Khmer ethnic minority man living in Tra Vinh province, is popular in the Khmer traditional arts community. He can play many traditional Khmer musical instruments and is dedicated to teaching music to the younger generation.

(VOVWORLD) - Ngo Quy Duc, a Hanoi native, is the founder of the "Return to the Village" project, which has helped many traditional craft villages promote and sell their products, expand their markets, and develop craft village tourism.

(VOVWORLD) - Professor Vo Tong Xuan, who recently passed away at the age of 84, was a leading scientist who made significant contributions to agriculture both domestically and internationally. He was the inventor of many delicious rice varieties in the Mekong Delta. During his life and career, he was dedicated to agriculture in the Mekong Delta and left his imprint on the region.

(VOVWORLD) - Household waste is one of the main sources of environmental pollution. But that waste can be turned into useful things like fertilizer and gasoline. That’s the goal of a pilot waste treatment plant at a landfill in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang run by mechanic Vo Hoai Phong.

(VOVWORLD) - 44-year-old Huynh Thanh Hung of Tan Thanh commune, Ca Mau city, has been involved in farming since he was a child. Hung now owns a ferret farm which earns him a profit of 60,000 USD a year.

(VOVWORLD) - Dr. Vu Quang Giang, Head of the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry at Tay Bac University, has been honored by the Vietnam Farmers’ Union as a “scientist of the farmers”. Giang’s research projects have contributed to greater agricultural production.

(VOVWORLD) - Having experienced a hail of bombs and shells and moments between life and death at the Quang Tri battlefield in 1972, war veteran Pham Ngoc Son in Thai Binh province now cherishes every moment of life in peacetime. At the age of 70 and 62% disabled, Son has spent much of his income supporting comrades-in-arms and paying tribute to fallen comrades.

(VOVWORLD) - Announcer Kien Cuong was a special voice of the Voice of Vietnam (VOV) during the resistance war against the US and later in peace time. Kien Cuong passed away this month, but his voice has left a deep impression on the hearts of many listeners.

(VOVWORLD) - Tra Dong bronze casting village in Thieu Hoa district is located 12 km northwest of the central city of Thanh Hoa. The village is famous for casting bronze drums, a musical instrument that symbolizes power and religion. 60-year-old emeritus artisan Nguyen Ba Chau has done his best to revive the traditional bronze casting techniques of Vietnam’s ancient people.