Since the end of the war about 800,000 tonnes of mines and bombs are estimated to remain on Việt Nam soil, claiming thousands of casualties every year. In hard-hit Quảng Trị Province, an all-women emergency response team under project 'Restoring the Environment and Neutralising the Effects of the War' (RENEW) are putting their own lives at risk to keep the community safe.
Locals in Hội An City, central Quảng Nam Province, are used to seeing the old man with a trolley walking along the roads and beaches every day to pick up rubbish. He has become something of a local celebrity.
A serious fire has killed five people in a family living in a house on Phạm Ngọc Thạch Street in Hà Nội earlier this morning.
Lê Viết Thuận, a disabled person with congenital cerebral palsy, is trying his best to help others in the same situation, spreading goodwill wherever he goes.
Việt Nam recorded seven COVID-related fatalities on Wednesday, the first time the daily death toll fell to single-digits since July last year
