In Bình Dương Province’s Dĩ An Town, a 24-member motorbike first-aid team is always available at intersections where accidents frequently occur.

Hanoian Vũ Đức Cường has made an unusual device that helps people with a fear of water learn how to swim.

Tân Lộc Islet residents don't wait around for things to get done. Instead, they take to the streets to repair infrastructure on their own. Tuấn Quang and Thu Hương report.

Farmers nationwide have improved their lives considerably by cultivating medicinal herbs, but over exploitation threatens their extinction. Despite the country's tremendous potential as a grower and producer of herbal medicine, it has gone from being an exporter to an importer of medicinal materials. Viết Tôn and Bạch Liên reports.

While they are already popular in Japan and elsewhere, Vietnamese artists are penning books in this vivid style that merges the comic and art worlds. An Vũ reports.

For two years, Võ Văn Công, 40, of the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai, has taken many of his precious orchids and replanted them in the forests, where many have been cut down for sale.

Three days a week, 11 volunteers meet at An Phú Communal House in HCM City’s District 2 to cook meals for the poor in the area.

It will be the first time that Japanese language education has been offered at the publicly run primary school level in Southeast Asia, according to Japanese officials.

Nguyễn Thiên Hương, who has an inherited blood disorder called thalassemia, finally got her wish: She and her husband, who have been married for 10 years, took their wedding vows at a public ceremony on International Thalassaemia Day (May 8).