A series of shots taken by the Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper photojournalist Nguyen Khanh depict the most talked about events of 2015 in the capital city of Hanoi and other northern provinces.

Born in 1989, Khanh had these photos published in Tuoi Tre’s print and online publications, receiving hundreds of likes, shares, and comments on Facebook.

The photos reflect residents’ daily lives and many important social events of last year in Hanoi, the city in which he lives and works, as well as the surrounding provinces.

Tuoi Tre hereby introduces some of the most impressive pictures by Nguyen Khanh:

A pig is to be brutally slaughtered in front of thousands of spectators at the controversial Nem Thuong Pig Slaughter Festival in Bac Ninh Province. Photo taken on February 24, 2015.

Mother and child in Dong Van Karst Plateau in northern Vietnam's Ha Giang Province

A youth raises the rainbow flag for LGBT people in front of Dong Kinh Nghia Thuc Square in Hanoi in response to new legislation recognizing the right to gender reassignment on November 24, 2015.  

Relatives of famed Vietnamese musician An Thuyen cry during his funeral on July 9, 2015. The artist passed away at the age of 66 on July 3, 2015 after suffering a heart attack.

K.A., a one-year-old who suffers leukemia, receives treatment at the Central Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion in Hanoi. The number of children with leukemia has increased rapidly in Vietnam.

Yen, a local from Quang Ninh Province’s Cam Pha City, picks up coal from under the water, earning between VND400,000 (US$18) and VND500,000 ($22) for every 4 to 5 hundredweights. A flood had washed millions of cubic meters of coal out of the storage facilities of two local coal producers to surrounding tributaries. Despite warnings from local authorities, hundreds of people headed into the streams to hunt for coal and earn some money.

Police officers in Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem District patrol on bicycles in a bid to improve relations with local residents. Photo taken on August 12, 2015.

A man wraps himself up in leaves and branches to avoid the sun on a muggy day on Tran Duy Hung Street. The temperature in Hanoi on May 29, 2015 reached 40.3 degrees Celsius, the highest recorded since 1971, according to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

A group of workers smoke during their break after eight hours working underground at a pit in the Thong Nhat coal mine in Quang Ninh Province. Underground coal mining is among the most dangerous, heavy, and harmful jobs due to the harsh working environment. Miners like these are exposed to a high risk of bronchitis, lung and skin diseases, as well as mining accidents involving heavy machinery. Photo taken in May 2015.

Truong Quy Hai, a musician and veteran, stands and prays at a cemetery in Ha Giang Province. Thousands of martyrs gave their lives in the 1979-1990 battle to protect their motherland from Chinese invaders. Photo taken on March 18, 2015.

A bird flies over newly-planted trees on Nguyen Chi Thanh Street in Hanoi. Many century-old trees were chopped down as part of a development on the street, stirring up public protests in March 2015. The Hanoi Department of Construction earmarked VND60 billion ($2.8 million) for cutting 6,700 trees and replace them with new ones. The project is expected to conclude in 2017.

Women of the H’Mong ethnic group cut stones to build houses on a ridge in Ha Giang Province’s Dong Van District. Photo taken in December 2015.

Lightning is captured during the first rain after a hot spell that lasted more than one month. Photo taken on June 6 2015.

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