In pictures: #Vietnam this week

Men play Chinese chess on a Hanoi sidewalk in this photo taken by Instagram account ducphungphoto.

A worker at a waterworks construction site in Ho Chi Minh City sips water in the middle of his shift. Photo taken by thanh.nguyent on Instagram.

Instagram account ledang90 captures a section of Nho Que River in Ha Giang, a province in Vietnam’s northern uplands. The river, which flows from China to Vietnam, has beautiful emerald shade.

A man makes tofu skin in the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long. The photographer, Instagram account ori.vidra, described the work as "hard and very physical as the temperature is very hot all the time."

Instagram account seizes a moment of fruit vendor in a rainy day in Hanoi's Old Quarter nguyenquang_tung.

This picture by Nguyen Ha was chosen Thursday as photo of the day by natgeonl. It shows fishermen preparing fishing nets on an early morning in the south central province of Binh Thuan.

A taxi motorbike driver (xe om) takes a break on a Hanoi street. Photo by Instagram account iamthaivuong.