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The October 13 memorandum covers internships at transformer stations, short courses for staff and students, and joint applied research with shared intellectual property.
Of nearly 3,000 students from 17 provinces and cities, 1,082 registered in Da Nang, where the paper-based test runs on October 18 at Anh Quốc school.
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.
A Da Nang tourism department workshop on October 17 put numbers on the gap between visitors and ticket buyers, and asked how more tourism money can reach the residents who keep the old houses…
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.
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About 300 delegates from more than 40 countries and territories are expected from February 25 to March 2, 2027. Vietnam's national preliminary round is on October 18.
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.
Decision 4741 creates a single State Legal Aid Center at 56 Trần Cao Vân. Decision 4752 defines the functions of the Employment Service Center under the Department of Home Affairs.
Throughput through September reached nearly 74% of the annual target. The port also expects revenue above 2 trillion dong and pre-tax profit above 580 billion dong.
Decision 4699 amends a 2024 decision and puts state-budget infrastructure work on the 58.4-hectare site under the ward's public service delivery centre.
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.
Vice Chairman Lê Quang Nam told Da Nang Power Company to finish by December 31 and set a November 20 target for telecom cables. The letter does not say how far the work has got.
Decision 4743 names the investor for lots B1-1-5 and B1-1-6 in the 2/9 area. Building is due to start in early 2027 and operation to begin between the first and fourth quarters of 2029.
Vitours Land is the approved investor for the 8,580-square-metre site. Construction is expected to start in the first quarter of 2027, with completion in late 2028.
Da Nang will spend more than 7.7 billion dong in 2026–2027 to track visitor density on the island biosphere reserve with 15 AI cameras and move ticketing to QR codes.
Decision 4720 approves a project from Engagement Global and the German city of Wernigerode covering Hội An Tây and Hội An Đông wards, running from October 2026 to December 2028.
Decision 4710 sets up the Da Nang Institute for Socio-Economic Development under the Department of Finance. It takes over the city's Business Support Center and starts work on November 1.
The rebuild of the bridge on Lê Văn Hiến–Trần Đại Nghĩa road was due by June 30. The project board has asked for more time and expects a technical opening in December.
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…
The City Military Command says the drone can carry 80 to 120 kilograms to places cut off by floods or landslides. It also accepted a motorised inflatable boat.
Traders from Huế, Quảng Trị and Gia Lai have put down deposits on trees that are still being pruned. Growers say a stormy season is the main risk.
The memorandum signed on October 16 lists joint incubation programmes and mentors. No money has been announced, and the support for startups is still to be agreed.
MBLand Đà Nẵng presented two proposals worth about 10 trillion dong to city leaders on October 14. Nothing has been approved.
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's chairman has told agencies to agree a payment plan for six stalled build-and-transfer projects, including the roughly 2,050 billion dong interchange. No payment date has been set.
The city's decision 4727 covers about 24.5 hectares of Hòa Tiến commune, with work planned for 2026 to 2029. The notice does not say how many households will move.
A ceremony at the Võ Chí Công and Mai Chí Thọ junction on October 15 launched a pipeline meant to ease weak water pressure in Hòa Xuân and Ngũ Hành Sơn.
Closing the city Party Committee's plenary on October 15, Lê Ngọc Quang asked the sector to lengthen stays and raise spending. Nine-month figures show 15.8 million overnight visitors.
Rept Battero and a Vietnamese car-assembly group pitched city leaders on October 14 and 15. No investment, site or amount has been approved.
The city has combined its public sports centre and its athlete-training centre into a single body under the culture, sports and tourism department. It starts operating on November 1.
The city has opened 28 promotion points for locally certified food and crafts, including a booth at Terminal 2. The pitch: tourists spend a smaller share of their budget on gifts here than elsewhere…
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.
A city review of six large projects, from National Highway 14D to a southern flood-control scheme, lists what is due when. Several have no date yet.
Traffic at Da Nang International Airport is running 16% ahead of last year and has already reached 78% of its 2026 target, the airport reports.
The management board suspended sightseeing on October 8 over landslide and flash-flood risk. Roads up the peninsula took visitors again from October 14.
The Korean group's third project at Tam Thang Industrial Park promises at least 200 direct jobs and lifts its local investment to about $572 million.
A draft decision would set where tour buses and other contract vehicles may stop in the urban area. Written comments are due before October 20.
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 city's year-end plan leans on public works, stalled housing projects and the free trade zone to hit 11.22 percent growth for 2026.
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 city has approved FTZ KITA Trung Nam as investor for a 154-hectare functional zone, with completion targeted for the last quarter of 2029.
From a 75,000-dong single smash to a 655,000-dong foie gras burger, Da Nang's burgers now cover every budget. Here's who makes what, where, and what the menus actually say.
Da Nang got its first craft brewery around 2017. Today you can drink beer brewed in a Liên Chiểu factory at three BREWHAHA taprooms, sit on the sand at East West, or take local drafts with a New York…
Da Nang now has Japanese-run burrata pizza, Italian-style wood-fired pies, a New York slice joint that started at the Sơn Trà Night Market, and a Detroit-style specialist. Here's who makes what,…
It started in 2018 with breakfasts for hungry guests at a Da Nang hostel. Now it's three Da Nang diners and one in Hoi An, serving smash burgers, poutine and all-day breakfast under a…
Lộc Trương left a big-beer job to start East West in 2016. Seven years later the company opened its second taproom on the sand at 1A Võ Nguyên Giáp. Here's how it got there and what it pours.
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.
Ministry figures reported by the city's broadcaster show international guests up 28.7% and domestic guests up 24.3% from January to September. Tour-company revenue grew more slowly.
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 Department of Construction says 154 houses in sub-zone 2 of Vinpearl's Làng Vân resort complex meet the legal conditions to be sold before completion. Deposits and payments are capped.
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 4,381-billion-dong center on a 10-hectare site at the city's southern entrance would be AEON's largest in central Vietnam, about three times the size of its Thanh Khê mall.
The plant at the Nam Quảng Nam waste site would treat 1,215 tonnes of waste a day and generate 15 megawatts. Construction is planned from mid-2027 to the end of 2029.
The new center absorbs DISSC, the startup agency that signed two investment memorandums last week, along with the city's biotechnology center and its microchip and AI training center.
The Ministry of Construction approved rebuilding runway 17R/35L and its taxiways to handle wide-body jets. The airport must keep operating during the works.
A Singapore-registered WHA company will build the park's infrastructure for 2,709 billion dong, about $105 million, in two phases running to 2034.
The city's innovation center and the real estate arm of Phuong Trang–FUTA Group signed a memorandum on October 12 that includes research into blockchain for property management. A Solana Foundation…
Halloween falls on a Saturday this year. Two Da Nang hotel buffets are confirmed by the organizers, four more events are not yet confirmed by the organizers, and most venues haven't announced yet. We…
Since the 2025 merger, Hoi An's old town sits inside Da Nang's city limits. Choosing between them for a month or a year still comes down to floods, buses, crowds and how much city you want.
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…
October is, on average, the wettest month by a wide margin. That doesn't mean four months of nonstop rain, but it does mean floods, landslides, rough seas and closures that can wreck a badly planned…
Ten kilometers from downtown, Son Tra is forest, endangered primates and some genuinely dangerous coastline. The routes reopened in 2025 with new rules. Here's how the peninsula works now.
From the city beach at My Khe to the reef at Nam O and the eroding sand at Cua Dai, the merged city's coast is a set of very different places. Here's what sets each apart, and the safety rules that…
Plenty of residents and visitors never touch a handlebar. Here's how ride-hailing, the bus network, the heritage train to Hue and your own two feet actually work, and where each one falls short.
Two terminals, a former air base, a new pre-arrival declaration and a terminal expansion that won't open until 2029. Here's how Da Nang International Airport works for arriving travelers.
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…
Ruined Cham temples, an imperial capital, islands, a mountain pass and a hill station. How far each one is, what it costs to get in and what to know before you go.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Phở gets the world's attention. Quang Nam's turmeric noodle, served with barely enough broth to wet it, got something rarer: official recognition as a national intangible heritage.
Do Long, who opened one of the city's first coffee shops on Le Loi Street in the early 1980s, died in July at 70. His blend, and the low-stool habit around it, outlive him.
Banh trang cuon thit heo is about as plain as Vietnamese food gets: thin-sliced pork, herbs, rice paper and mam nem. That's the point. Here's what's in it and why the sauce matters most.
Live tanks, prices by weight and recurring overcharging complaints. A practical guide to the city's seafood culture, and the Michelin-listed places that anchor it.
Fish cake noodle soup, rice cakes in tiny saucers, crisp bánh xèo, chicken rice and rice-paper snacks. The city's own Michelin list is a good map to all of them.
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…
Opened in 2013 for about 1.5 trillion dong, the Dragon Bridge was built to move traffic across the Han River. It ended up as the city's logo, and its weekend show is now a tourist draw in its own…
For centuries, the mountain road between Da Nang and Hue was a frontier, then a fortress, then a bottleneck. A tunnel killed the traffic and a restoration brought back the gate. Here's what's fact and…
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…
Bridges finished years ago in the former Quang Nam area sat unusable because nobody built the roads up to them. Seven are off the problem list. Fourteen are still waiting on land and dirt.
An inter-ministerial council reviewed the city's general plan to 2050 on September 8. Planners project about 6 million residents and room for 8 million, a number even the Party secretary wants…
Forty families left Gari village after a hill split open, a district road in Thuong Duc caved in, and stations up and down central Vietnam broke September rain records.
A grass-cutting trip in Quang Phu and a night of fishing near Tam Giang bridge ended the same way. Both happened in storm weather on a river that rises fast.
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…
By the end of August the city had disbursed 66% of its 17.2-trillion-dong public investment plan, placing it fifth nationally. The money is flowing into ports, roads and schools, and site clearance is…
The city hosted about 199 corporate, conference and incentive groups by mid-September and wants 93,000 such visitors this year. The new pitch: let the people who choose destinations try Da Nang first.
More than 60 km south of downtown, a village beach market sells the night's catch by sunrise and cooks it for visitors after. Locals run it, and the season is about to close.
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.
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.
About 130 delegates, including China's top judge, gathered for the first ASEAN-China Justice Forum held outside China. The agenda covered cross-border cases, e-courts and artificial intelligence.
The city logged 4,251 cases by October 1, outbreaks nearly quadrupled, and 70% of tested samples were serotype D2. The rainy season has barely started.
A new city scheme covers 160 resettlement sites through 2036 and more than 3.4 trillion dong in new spending. The record from 2021 to 2025 is a reason to watch closely.
From October 6 to 9, the city put troops on standby, handed school closures to local officials, and moved children out of a kindergarten in water over a meter deep.
Magnitude 2.6 to 3.0 tremors hit Tra Tan and Tra Tap on September 17, weeks after a 3.1 in August. No damage was reported, but residents are rattled.
From October 10, trucks with four or more axles are banned from the border highway to Laos while a 4,518-billion-dong upgrade is built. The city also cleared nearly 32 hectares of forest for the…
City leaders have approved studying elevated urban roads, starting with three proposed corridors. There's no price tag or timeline yet, just a lot of traffic.
A 1,571-billion-dong interchange at the Hoa Xuan bridge approach comes with a parking ban on Nguyen Huu Tho, a new container-truck route and a one-week trial before work begins in earnest.
Licensed in the mid-2000s and due by 2018, a 17-hectare coastal tourism project on Truong Sa road is still mostly empty land. City inspectors say the paperwork failures run through several agencies.
Decision 4573 orders a 50% cut in processing time for big public projects, from highways to high schools. The most interesting part is what happens when a department goes quiet.
The Vietnam International Financial Centre in Da Nang debuted in the Global Financial Centres Index, four places behind Ho Chi Minh City's. Even its own leadership calls it a starting point.
StartupBlink named Da Nang Vietnam's fastest-growing startup ecosystem for 2026. The growth is real, and so is the gap with Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi.
Da Nang is the only Vietnamese destination on Lonely Planet's 2027 list. Days later, local resorts and Ba Na Hills won 13 World Travel Awards. Here's what the praise means for people who live here.
Russian and CIS arrivals nearly doubled in the first eight months of 2026, on the back of charter flights and an online ad push. A Yandex executive's advice: chase spending power, not volume.
The city is pushing night-time spending as a growth engine: longer hours in Hai Chau, a 24/7 community space in An Thuong and a seaside entertainment proposal under review. The details are still thin.
Decision 4167 sets aside four airspace zones for drone clubs and operators, ahead of an 18-month 'low-altitude economy' pilot that includes drone delivery. Every flight still needs a permit.
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.
Registered FDI hit $681.55 million in nine months, 2.87 times last year. Disbursed foreign capital grew far more modestly, and land sales now drive the city budget.
Sand piles, open pits and mud on Tong Phuoc Pho, Le Quang Dao and Nguyen Luong Bang. The Department of Construction has ordered a citywide review. Residents want the work finished before the rains.
A Sunday-morning downpour sent soil into homes in Tra Giap and buried the only road into a Nam Tra My village. No one was hurt, and the forecast isn't done yet.
