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The Department of Construction and Hòa Khánh ward point to the Phùng Hưng pipeline, a canal upgrade in the industrial park and new flood maps. Most measures have no stated cost.
The Vietnam Rehabilitation Association's 2026 meeting, held October 15 to 17 with Da Nang C Hospital, combined lectures with hands-on equipment workshops.
The memorandum covers staff training, technique transfer, joint consultations and research, with stroke, cardiovascular and emergency care among Da Nang Hospital's priorities.
Decision 4762 adjusts and adds to three earlier price lists for cars with up to nine seats, pick-ups, van trucks and motorbikes. The summary does not list the new values.
The plan covers a 3.8-kilometre protected stretch and a supervised community fishing area of about 5,100 square metres, with funding for 2026 to 2028.
The public lottery on October 15 covered phase one of a four-tower project on Huỳnh Tịnh Của road. Handover is expected at the end of 2027.
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The Department of Construction told a city Party meeting that the airport-area drainage upgrade is among the finished works. The older drainage network copes with about 50 to 60 millimetres of rain an…
An elliptical structure called the Ring of Peace is taking shape around part of the Thanh Khê park's central lake. No opening date has been given.
The city says about 39,500 social housing units are in the approval pipeline for 2026 to 2030. Its target for this year is nearly 5,000.
The underground drain was due on September 27 but is about 32% done. Pits up to three meters deep sit open beside homes in the former Tam Kỳ.
The Department of Construction blames raised culvert beds and narrowed temporary drainage beside the Capital Square 2 and 3 site, and wants repairs and round-the-clock pumping.
The city is taking back flats in the Hòa Minh, Thuận Phước and Hòa Cường blocks so it can demolish and rebuild them. Residents can move to temporary housing in Hải Vân ward.
The 90-day e-visa gets you in. It doesn't make you a resident, and it doesn't let you work. Here's what Vietnamese law provides for longer stays, and where common practice and the rules part ways.
Online cost-of-living charts are mostly other people's guesses. Electricity, water and the minimum wage are set by regulation, and official statistics track rents. Here's what those figures say, and…
A handshake and a cash deposit is how a lot of leases start. Vietnamese law asks for more. Here's what's required, what's only custom, and the questions that save people money.
Foreigners keep posting videos praising Da Nang's public hospitals. That's real, and so are the language gaps and the paperwork. Here's how care works for foreign residents.
The rental shop will hand you the keys either way. The law is stricter: who must convert a foreign license, what an international permit does and doesn't cover, and what the 2025 fines look like.
International school fees in the Da Nang area run from about 170 million to more than 660 million dong a year. Here's what the published numbers show, how flood days work, and what families actually…
Da Nang sells itself to laptop workers, and day to day it mostly delivers. But Vietnam's international internet runs through a handful of undersea cables that keep breaking, and your visa probably…
The Han is a short river that does a lot of work. A bridge funded partly by residents' donations opened its east bank in 2000, and the waterfront has been the city's stage ever since.
Han Market is the one in the guidebooks. Con Market is the neighborhood institution. Behind both sits a network of neighborhood stalls and a wholesale market the city is about to auction off. Here's…
Officials themselves have said Da Nang lacks parks worthy of its size. A 673-billion-dong rebuild of 29/3 Park is the biggest attempt to fix that. Here's what exists, what's changing and where to walk…
Da Nang keeps topping 'cheapest place to live' lists. Before you sign a lease, here's what the visa rules, the residence registration requirement and the city's own risks actually look like.
The 2025 merger turned Da Nang and Quang Nam into one city of 94 commune-level units. A June 2026 council vote could turn 10 more communes into wards. Here's how it works, and why it matters for your…
Missing streets, renamed roads and locations that don't match reality: the city's official land prices, which drive fees and compensation, need patching across nearly 40% of its wards and communes.
Hands-on training from core hospitals let district centers handle more surgery and emergency care. Son Tra's surgical referral rate fell from 14.2% to 9.5%, and Da Nang Hospital is now a national…
