Drivers and motorcyclists move through a street during a blackout in Hanoi, Vietnam, on June 8, 2023. Vietnam has released a long-anticipated energy plan meant to take the country through the next decade and help meet soaring demand while reducing carbon emissions. (Photo by Hau Dinh/AP Photo)





A person rests on a table at a shopping mall to take refuge from the heat during a power outage in Hanoi, Vietnam on Saturday, June 10, 2023. Power outages are leaving Vietnamese homes and businesses without power for hours at a time, as a prolonged drought and high temperatures strain the fast-growing economy's capacity to keep up. (Photo by Hau Dinh/AP Photo)





People take part in a yoga exercise ahead of the 9th International Day of Yoga by Hoan Kiem lake in Hanoi, Vietnam, 18 June 2023. More than a thousand participants gathered in a mass yoga session to celebrate the International Day of Yoga which was declared on 21 June as the International Yoga Day by the United Nations. (Photo by Luong Thai Linh/EPA)





A worker transports a water tank on his motorbike in Hanoi on June 21, 2023. (Photo by Nhac Nguyen/AFP Photo)





Workers clean the glass windows next to an electronic billboard on a high-rise building in Hanoi on June 30, 2023. (Photo by Nhac Nguyen/AFP Photo)





A drone’s view on June 29, 2023 of the terraced water fields of Y Ty, Vietnam, which sit at an altitude of 2,000m and reflect the green of the forest, the brown of the mountains, the white of the clouds and many shades inbetween. (Photo by Khanh Phan/Solent News)





This photo taken on July 2, 2023 shows a farmer planting rice on a paddy field at sunrise in Hanoi. For countless farmers in north and central Vietnam, planting in the dark has become a saviour during increasingly hot summers as South and Southeast Asia nations battle record-high temperatures this year. (Photo by Nhac Nguyen/AFP Photo)





A nurse bathes a newborn baby at a hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam on July 11, 2023. Viet Nam’s population is is estimated to reach 100 million in 2023. World Population Day is observed on 11 July annually since it was established by the United Nations in 1989. This year, World Population Day's theme is “Unleashing the power of gender Equality: Uplifting the voices of women and girls to unlock our world's infinite possibilities”. (Photo by Luong Thai Linh/EPA/EFE)





Fans wear colorful rain covers as they wait in the rain at the My Dinh National Stadium stadium for the start of a concert of the South Korean K-Pop girl group “Blackpink”, in Hanoi, Vietnam, 29 July 2023. The South Korean girl group will perform on 29 and 30 July at the city's My Dinh National Stadium on their last stop in Asia of their “Born Pink” World Tour. (Photo by Luong Thai Linh/EPA)





A man rides a motorbike in the rain in Hanoi on August 11, 2023. (Photo by Nhac Nguyen/AFP Photo)





People take part in a yoga exercise at My Dinh National Stadium in Hanoi, Vietnam, 12 August 2023. Some 5,000 yoga participants joined in a yoga event at the stadium on 12 August, which is expected to set a Vietnamese Guinness record. (Photo by Luong Thai Linh/EPA)





Participants hold up coloured cloths to form the Vietnamese flag during a mass yoga event in My Dinh National Stadium in Hanoi on August 12, 2023 (Photo by Tien Tuan/AFP Photo)





An elephant with a shackled leg is pictured at the Hanoi Zoo in Hanoi on August 16, 2023. Legs in iron chains and unable to roam freely, the treatment of two elderly elephants at the Hanoi public zoo has drawn outrage from animal lovers across Vietnam. (Photo by Nhac Nguyen/AFP Photo)





Monks, nuns, Buddhists, and tourists take part in the Vu Lan festival, also known as the Ghost festival or the Wondering Souls festival at Bo Den Mountain in South Vietnam in the last decade of August 2023. (Photo by Bui Van Hai/Solent News)





Workers set out and season tons of fish to dry in the sun in the last decade of August 2023 in Phuoc Hai, Vietnam, before they are taken to market. (Photo by Le Huy Anh/Solent News)





US President Joe Biden attends a welcoming ceremony hosted by Vietnam's Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong (2L) at the Presidential Palace of Vietnam in Hanoi on September 10, 2023. Biden travels to Vietnam to deepen cooperation between the two nations, in the face of China's growing ambitions in the region. (Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP Photo)





Children wave flags of both countries as U.S. President Joe Biden participates in a welcome ceremony hosted by Vietnam's Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam, Sunday, September 10, 2023. (Photo by Evan Vucci/AP Photo)





Vietnamese General Secretary of the Communist Party Nguyen Phu Trong, on podium front right, and US President Joe Biden, on podium front left, attend a military welcome ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam, Sunday, September 10, 2023. Biden is on an official two-day visit in Vietnam. Photo by (Luong Thai Linh/Pool Photo via AP Photo)





Vietnamese soldiers give a gun salute as U.S. President Joe Biden participates in a welcome ceremony hosted by Vietnam's Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam, Sunday, September 10, 2023. (Photo by Evan Vucci/AP Photo)





Drivers wait as the road is blocked for the convoy carrying US President Joe Biden in Hanoi on September 11, 2023, following a 2-day visit to Vietnam. (Photo by Nhac Nguyen/AFP Photo)