A soldier stands parks his motorcycle in front of a banner at the headquarters of the Division 308 special military force in Xuan Mai town, outside Hanoi July 10, 2015. (Photo by Greg Torode/Reuters)





A farmer works in a field of blossoming cabbage plants in Xuan Son village, outside Hanoi, Vietnam February 13, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/Kham)





A farmer works in a field of blossoming cabbage plants in Xuan Son village, outside Hanoi, Vietnam February 13, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/Kham)





A farmer drops corn seeds to plant in a field in Xuan Son village, outside Hanoi, Vietnam February 13, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/Kham)





Farmers plant rice on a paddy in Vietnam's northern Phu Tho province, outside Hanoi, February 21, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/Kham)





A handicraft vendor waits for customers on a foggy day in front of a Catholic church after Sunday Mass, in Vietnam's northern resort town of Sapa, north of Hanoi, February 21, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/Kham)





A handicraft vendor waits for customers on a foggy day in front of a Catholic church after Sunday Mass, in Vietnam's northern resort town of Sapa, north of Hanoi, February 21, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/Kham)





Hmong boy carry their brothers past a Catholic church on a foggy day after Sunday Mass, in Vietnam's northern resort town of Sapa, north of Hanoi, February 21, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/Kham)





A new recruit takes a selfie during a military recruitment ceremony at the Quan Ngua stadium in Hanoi, Vietnam, February 23, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/Kham)





Vietnamese gay rights activist Luong The Huy (2nd R) attends a news conference with transgenders Ngoc Tu (L), Anh Phong (2nd L) and La Lam (R) in Hanoi, Vietnam, November 26, 2015. While transgender, gay and lesbian people are persecuted and even jailed in many Asian countries, Vietnam has quietly become a trailblazer, with laws to decriminalize gay marriage and co-habitation and recognize s*x changes on identity documents. (Photo by Reuters/Kham)





A man pulls out a piece of red-hot metal at a steel mill in Bac Ninh province, outside Hanoi, Vietnam March 1, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/Kham)





A man takes a rest after lunch on a pile of steel at a steel mill in Bac Ninh province, outside Hanoi, Vietnam March 1, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/Kham)





A man works at a steel mill in Bac Ninh province, outside Hanoi, Vietnam March 1, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/Kham)





Commuters are seen during rush hour on a street in Hanoi, Vietnam, April 20, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/Kham)





A man walks past a poster on the 14th National Assembly election on a street in Hanoi, Vietnam, April 20, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/Kham)





People ride past smokes created by burning waste materials in the street, in Hanoi, Vietnam 07 March 2016. Reports said air pollution rate in Hanoi had recently recorded hazardous level, which increases the risk of many diseases and endangers public health. (Photo by Luong Thai Linh/EPA)





This picture taken on March 1, 2016 shows a man running a mobile pig mating service and waiting outside a customer's home with his male pig in a cage pulled behind his motorcycle in the northern province of Bac Ninh. (Photo by Hoang Dinh Nam/AFP Photo)





This picture taken on January 18, 2016 shows a street barber (R) serving a customer at a public park in downtown Hanoi. From Soviet-style letters of denunciation to outlandish rumours of a coup, Hanoi is abuzz with political gossip ahead of a key leadership change this week that has plunged the ruling communist elite into turmoil. (Photo by Hoang Dinh Nam/AFP Photo)





A street vendor sells “banh da” (rice crackers) carried on her bicycle in downtown Hanoi on May 17, 2016. (Photo by Hoang Dinh Nam/AFP Photo)