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A mother and child sell food in Hai Ba Trung district at night. The heavy burden of earning a living falls on the poor workers’ shoulders every night. The colder it is, the harder their tasks are. A group of labourers work hard at night as they try to finish on schedule ahead of the Lunar New Year, known locally as Tet. Their shift starts at midnight and lasts until 4 a.m. each day. A worker is busy at night on Hang Khay street in Hanoi’s Old Quarter. Poorer street sellers must make money whenever they can, forcing them to stay out in the freezing weather so that they can make ends meet. A candy floss seller waits for customers amid dingy conditions. Many street vendors are forced to close up early to go back home as business is too quiet due to the cold. A cyclo driver patiently waits for customers at night. Luck seems to smile at him when a foreign tourist takes a cyclo tour around the city to snap photo...

General To Lam (L) meets General Raúl Castro Ruz. Photo: VNA Politburo member and Minister of Public Security General To Lam concluded a three-day official visit to Cuba on October 14, VNA reported. Earlier the same day, Lam met with General Raúl Castro Ruz and paid a courtesy call to First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee and President of Cuba Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez. The Vietnamese official expressed sympathy to the Cuban Party, State, and people over the difficulties caused by Covid-19 and the fuel storage blaze in Matanzas in early August. General To Lam meets General Raúl Castro Ruz. Photo: VNA Reaffirming Vietnam ’s support to Cuban people’s revolution cause, he said he believes Cuba will overcome all difficulties and challenges and record greater successes. He proposed that the Cuban President continue to support the public security forces of Vietnam and Cuba to cooperate effectively with each other in protecting security...