Workers arrange incense sticks to be dried in a courtyard ahead of the Lunar New Year celebrations in Quang Phu Cau village, outside Hanoi, Vietnam, on January 20, 2025. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)





Weavers in Vietnam making traditional bamboo fish traps in the village of Thu Sy, 40 miles from Hanoi on January 22, 2025. The traps are woven from bamboo strips and the flexible wood of calamus, a palm species. (Photo by Sabina Akter/Solent News)





A jet of water sprayed on chrysanthemums appears gold in the evening light of Dong Thap province, Vietnam in the last decade of January 2025. The floating plantation was watered in readiness for Lunar New Year, which falls on Wednesday. (Photo by Bui Van Hai/Solent News)





After soybeans are baked in sunlight, they are then fermented in jars as seen here in Ban Yen Nhan, Vietnam in the first decade of February 2025, which helps it to form its unique flavour. The sauce is eventually made from four main ingredients: soybean, glutinous rice, water and white salt. (Photo by Sabina Akter/Solent News)





A baby monkey is seen beside its mother in Can Gio also known as “Monkey Island”, known for its lush vegetation and wild life which is inhabited by large numbers of monkeys in Ho Minh City, Vietnam on March 05, 2025. (Photo by Magdalena Chodownik/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Members of a Vietnamese guard of honour prepare for a welcoming ceremony for Kyrgyzstan's Prime Minister Adylbek Kasymaliev at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi on March 6, 2025. (Photo by Nhac Nguyen/AFP Photo)





A street vendor walks along the railway track on a train street in Hanoi, Vietnam, 10 March 2025. The Hanoi Department of Tourism has requested travel agencies not arrange tours to train street, one of the city’s most popular spots, amid safety concerns. (Photo by Luong Thai Linh/EPA)





People visit the “Plastic Dinoland” exhibition by Japanese artist Hiroshi Fuji, in Hanoi, Vietnam, 17 March 2025. The exhibition, which features colorful installations of dinosaurs made from discarded toys, runs from 15 March to 01 June 2025 at The Japan Foundation in Hanoi. (Photo by Luong Thai Linh/EPA/EFE)





A model built using Lego bricks displayed at the Lego A/S factory in Binh Duong, Vietnam, on April 2, 2025. Lego is undaunted by the wave of new tariffs President Donald Trump unleashed on US trading partners as the world's largest toymaker opened a new production complex in Vietnam. (Photo by Maika Elan/Bloomberg)





Children hold the flags of China and Communist Party of Vietnam ahead a welcome ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam on April 14, 2025. (Photo by Luong Thai Linh/Reuters)





People wave Chinese flags as the plane carrying Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives for a two-day state visit at Hanoi's Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi on April 14, 2025. His tour of Southeast Asia will also see him visit Malaysia and Cambodia as Beijing seeks to strengthen regional trade ties and offset the impact of huge tariffs unleashed by his US counterpart. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Pool via AFP Photo)





Military police officers patrol on their motorcycles with their K9 dogs near the Huu Nghi border gate of Vietnam-China in Lang Son province, Vietnam, on April 17, 2025. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)





This photo taken on March 20, 2025 shows Nguyen Thi Kim sitting on a pillar of a destroyed house at the original site of Lang Nu village in Lao Cai province, after part of it was wiped away in a landslide triggered by Typhoon Yagi's devastating heavy rains last year. Dozens of survivors have been relocated to a site that authorities hope will withstand future climate change-linked disasters, with stronger homes, drainage canals and a gentler topography that lessens landslide risks. (Photo by Nhac Nguyen/AFP Photo)





Workers check railway tracks at Long Bien Bridge in Hanoi, Vietnam, 21 April 2025. Vietnam maintains its GDP growth target for 2025 at 8 percent despite tariff risks. (Photo by Luong Thai Linh/EPA/EFE)





Vietnamese soldiers during a rehearsal for the parade marking the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War in Ho Chi Minh City on April 27, 2025. (Photo by Nhac Nguyen/AFP Photo)





A woman poses with a Vietnamese flag in front of the Reunification Palace in Ho Chi Minh City on April 28, 2025, ahead of celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. (Photo by Nhac Nguyen/AFP Photo)





Women in traditional costume “Ao dai” featured Vietnamese flags walk in a park in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (Photo by Hau Dinh/AP Photo)





Vietnamese female police officers march during a parade celebrating the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. (Photo by Richard Vogel/AP Photo)





A Vietnamese couple practice Ballroom dancing as part of their morning exercise along Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi, Vietnam on Friday, May 2, 2025. (Photo by Richard Vogel/AP Photo)