In the footsteps of her father, US woman lends a hand to war victims1

Susan Hammond, an American, first set foot in Việt Nam 27 years ago, on a vacation she had planned with the hope of learning more about the country where her father spent time during the war.

Farmer builds 300 free houses for poor people

For fourteen years, Trương Văn Kiểm has helped hundreds of poor households have durable and safe homes.

A café for contributors

On the first Saturday of every month, reporters and journalists in the central province of Quảng Ngãi gather for a familiar activity – drinking coffee, contributing to the charity fund of a programme called “A cup of coffee worth VNĐ50,000.”

Food donations warm hearts of recipients Members of the Ha Noi Food Rescue (HFR) have transported more than 15,000 packets of leftover food from hotels and restaurants to the underprivileged, disabled and patients in areas of Ha Noi.

An Expatriate Woman Every morning after cooking breakfast, watering potted flowers, tidying the house and kissing her husband James goodbye before he went to work, she drank a glass of limonade to detox her body before resuming her unfinished sleep for a few hours.

Old man guards casuarina trees Most people aged eighty-six spend their time resting. Not Nguyen Van Lan from Ha Tinh. He looks after trees. Casuarina trees. He planted many of them to stop seawater from flooding people's land. Now he looks after them, protecting them from poachers who cut the trees down to sell them as logs.

Man plants trees to stop erosion Everyone has a passion, but Nguyen Van Lan has devoted his life to something different – planting the casuarina forest.Lan is a resident of Xuan Hoi Commune, Nghi Xuan District in the central province of HaTinh.

‘Prodigal son' returns to enrich community Ka So Lieng, who has collected and translated epics of the ethnic minority communities in the Central Highlands, has returned home and is offering his people more than cultural preservation, The Khoa and Trung Hieu report.

Historical memorabilia donated to centre Thang Long – Ha Noi Heritage Conservation Centre received more than 500 documents and objects yesterday related to a Communist Party of Viet Nam (CPV) meeting that played a decisive role in the liberation of the South and national unification.

Orphans and aged find sanctuary together A charity centre near Ha Noi provides a haven for pensioners and youths, giving them food and lodging and the chance to earn some money or gain an education. Thanh Binh reports