As the afternoon sun plays shadows with the trees lining the streets on Ha Noi, the fruit seller pauses for a while with her baskets. Strolling through the streets of Hanoi you are bound to notice the haphazardly painted phone numbers put up on walls by laborers offering their services, painting telephone numbers on public walls typically takes place at night and is completed within seconds.

Current regulations, stipulate that people found to be illegally promoting their services in public areas may be fined anywhere from VND300,000 to 1 million, depending on such factors as frequency and duration of the ads. Subscribers were also forced to remove their numbers from city property and must sign a letter agreeing to stop such illegal behaviour. In addition, violators’ phone lines were temporarily cut.
But given the growing number of ads seen in busy streets and public places, the decree does not seem to have made much of a difference

Talking about numbers I notice that this is my 200th photo!!