FOR RELEASE WITH STORY BC-VIETNAM-TOURISM) - Two western tourists get hassled by a young street kid selling postcards as they walk around the banks of Hanoi's picturesque city centre Hoan Kiem Lake. Foreign tourists have yet to flock to the communist-ruled country but many of those that do come complain it is too expensive, lacks infrastructure and that the armies of touts and beggars are simply too persistent.

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