Da Nang merges its two big stages into one Arts Theatre, starting November 1
The city has folded the Trưng Vương Theatre and the Traditional Arts Theatre into a single public performing-arts unit. It begins operating next month.
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Da Nang sets June 27 to July 3, 2027 for its fifth film festival and pitches it in Busan
A city delegation presented DANAFF V at the Busan International Film Festival on October 11 and signed a cooperation agreement with the Vietnam Film Development Association.
Five elements, 156 steps and a wartime hospital: the Marble Mountains, explained
Ngũ Hành Sơn is a cluster of limestone and marble hills full of caves and pagodas, a national special relic since 2019, and a place where the stone-carving trade had to stop carving the mountain…
From colonial hill station to giant stone hands: how Ba Na Hills became Da Nang's most expensive mountain
French colonists built a cool-air retreat here in 1919. A record-breaking cable car and a bridge held up by two fiberglass hands turned it into a global image and a million-dong ticket. Here's the…
Gunboats, Marines and the 'Miami of Vietnam': how a port town became a tourism capital
Da Nang was made by its harbor: an emperor's edict, French gunboats, a war-era air base. Tourism is the newest chapter, and the city is now building a container port to make sure it isn't the only…
A 111-year-old museum full of gods: inside Da Nang's Museum of Cham Sculpture
Founded by French archaeologists in 1915 and still on the Han River, the museum holds what's described as the world's largest collection of Cham sculpture, including a growing list of national…
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150 years after his birth, Huynh Thuc Khang is still the Quang Nam scholar politicians quote
Da Nang marked the 150th birth anniversary of the patriotic scholar and former acting state president on October 1, with National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man giving the main speech.
A farmer buried 17 soldiers in his family's land in 1988. This September, they finally got a cemetery
Remains believed to be Military Region 5 soldiers killed in 1970 were exhumed from a private grave in Go Cao hamlet and reburied at a martyrs' cemetery after nearly four decades.
Dig at the foot of the Hai Van Pass hands 88 artifacts to the Da Nang Museum, including a possible Champa carving
An emergency excavation at the Chon Sang post and Nam Chon station uncovered Nguyen-era defenses, trade ceramics and a sandstone piece experts tentatively date to around the 8th or 9th century.