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Traffic policemen in Hanoi implement measures aimed at ensuring safety around the exam venues from early in the morning. A mother encourages her daughter and expresses hopes that she will perform well during her high-school graduation examination. Volunteers are on hand to support both students and their parents at an exam venue in Hanoi. Teachers prepare paper boxes in order to keep students’ belongings in an area located 25 metres away from the test site. Some students review their lessons at an exam site in Dong Da district of Hanoi. A total of 250,000 staff have been mobilised in order to organise and invigilate the exams taking place across the country this year. During the morning students do a test on Vietnamese literature and language for 120 minutes, followed by a 90-minute math test held in the afternoon. On June 29, tests in natural sciences are scheduled to take place in the morning and social sciences in the afternoon. Photographed are s...

The management board of Xuan Nguyen prison organise a wide range of activities specifically for prisoners to welcome in the Lunar New Year. On the occasion of the country’s biggest national holiday, as many as 183 prisoners are allowed to go free ahead of their prison terms, with 725 prisoners seeing their prison terms reduced. Prisoners are released for good behaviour during the course of their prison terms. The prisoners set to be released have been provided with chip-based ID cards, thereby helping them to reintegrate into the community. Wrapping Banh Chung (square sticky rice cake) is part of the activities held to celebrate Tet in Xuan Nguyen prison. This marks the first time that prisoners have joined in making Banh Chung. In the past, the management of Xuan Nguyen prison presented one Chung cake to each prison every Tet. Xuan Nguyen prison also has around 700 female prisoners who e...