A worker carries a bag of rice at a warehouse in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Tuesday, January 30, 2024. Vietnam is the world's third largest rice exporter, and the staple importance to Vietnamese culture is palpable in the Mekong Delta. (Photo by Jae C. Hong/AP Photo)





Nguyen Thi Thuy, a vendor who sells steamed buns at a floating market, pauses her paddle briefly on her way to the market before sunrise in Can Tho, Vietnam, Wednesday, January 17, 2024. (Photo by Jae C. Hong/AP Photo)





A street vendor rides a bicycle with balloons to sell on a street in Hanoi on February 1, 2024. (Photo by Nhac Nguyen/AFP Photo)





A man fishes at a lake on a foggy morning in Hanoi on February 2, 2024. (Photo by Nhac Nguyen/AFP Photo)





A woman releases a fish into a lake on a foggy morning in Hanoi on February 2, 2024. (Photo by Nhac Nguyen/AFP Photo)





A woman selling decorated watermelons waits for customers in Hanoi on February 5, 2024, as Vietnamese prepare to celebrate their traditional Tet or Lunar New Year of the Dragon which falls on February 10. Peach blossoms and orange trees are two main ornaments at home for the lunar new year celebrations in Northern Vietnam. (Photo by Nhac Nguyen/AFP Photo)





A woman poses for photos in a peach blossom field in Hanoi, Vietnam Thursday, February 8, 2024. Vietnam is preparing to welcome the Lunar New Year of the Dragon, the most popular festive event of the year. (Photo by Huy Han/AP Photo)





People shop for decorations in a traditional Lunar New Year market in Hanoi, Vietnam Thursday, February 8, 2024. Vietnam is preparing to welcome the Lunar New Year of the Dragon, the most popular festive event of the year. (Photo by Huy Han/AP Photo)





Villagers gather long grass in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam in the first decade of February 2024. The grasses are used as an alternative for plastic products such as baskets. (Photo by Natnattcha Chaturapitamorn/Solent News)





Drones light up the sky during a drone light show on Lunar New Year's Eve in Hanoi, Vietnam, 09 February 2024. Hanoi is expected to reach a Southeast Asian record with 2024 drones flying in the “Hanoi Light Festival – Brilliant Thang Long” event. The lunar new year, also called Tet, is the most significant celebration in Vietnamese culture and falls on 10 February this year, the year of the Dragon. (Photo by Luong Thai Linh/EPA/EFE)





A balloon vendor waits for customers in Hanoi on February 15, 2024. (Photo by Nhac Nguyen/AFP Photo)





Local villagers of the Hoang Mai district fight for the ball made of jackfruit wooden, weighing 25kg during the Thuy Linh village traditional ball scrambling festival, in Hanoi, Vietnam, 15 February 2024. The festival which is held on the first week of every first lunar month have attracted hundreds of visitors. (Photo by Luong Thai Linh/EPA)





Villagers attend a traditional “ball wrestling” game in Hanoi, Vietnam, Thursday, February 15, 2024. The game, in which players fight to take control of a 25-kilogram (55-pound) wooden ball to put into the opponent's ditch, is organized annually during the spring festival to promote the spirit of martial arts. (Photo by Huy Han/AP Photo)





A worker walks in the middle of the track during railway track maintenance work on the Long Bien bridge in Hanoi on February 20, 2024. (Photo by Nhac Nguyen/AFP Photo)





Vietnam's property tycoon Truong My Lan (C) arrives at a court in Ho Chi Minh city on March 5, 2024. A top Vietnamese property tycoon went on trial on March 5, 2024 along with dozens of others, accused of embezzling $12.5 billion in the country's biggest ever fraud case. (Photo by AFP Photo)





A man carries a plastic bucket across the cracked bed of a parched dried-up pond in Vietnam's southern Ben Tre province on March 19, 2024. Every day, farmer Nguyen Hoai Thuong prays in vain for rain to fall on the cracked dry earth of her garden in Vietnam's Mekong Delta – the country's “rice bowl” agricultural heartland.A blazing month-long heatwave has brought drought, parching the land in Thuong's home of Ben Tre province, 130 kilometres (80 miles) south of business hub Ho Chi Minh City. (Photo by Nhac Nguyen/AFP Photo)





A shoe street vendor uses her phone as she waits for customers along a street in Hanoi on April 3, 2024. (Photo by Nhac Nguyen/AFP Photo)





A woman on a boat looks at damaged houses on the banks of Cau River in Vietnam's Bac Ninh province on April 8, 2024. (Photo by Nhac Nguyen/AFP Photo)





Collapsed buildings along the banks of Cau river in Bac Ninh province, Vietnam, 09 April 2024. Six houses collapsed on a dike of Cau river on 07 April 2024. Some 27 residents living in the houses were evacuated to safety, according to local authorities. (Photo by Luong Thai Linh/EPA)





Business woman Truong My Lan, front center, attends a trial in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on Thursday, April 11, 2024. The real estate tycoon may face the death penalty if convicted of allegations that she siphoned off an amount of $12.5 billion, nearly 3 percent of Vietnam's 2022 GDP, in its largest financial fraud case. (Photo by Thanh Tung/VnExpress via AP Photo)