Despite welcoming 500 international cruises each year, Vietnam only hosts around 300,000 tourists from cruises – just 3 per cent of the total number of foreigners visiting the country in a year – and the percentage of tourists ...

By 2050, the 120-year-old Tien Sa Port, the largest deep-water port in Da Nang city, will serve merely as a service and tourism port, while Lien Chieu port, which is still on paper, would become an international port.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Da Nang City authorities plan to construct Lien Chieu Port at a total cost of VND7.4 trillion (US$320 million).

 VietNamNet Bridge – Da Nang will speed up the construction of key water plants – the Cau Do, Hoa Trung and Hoa Lien – in order to supply 250,000 cubic metres of clean water each day by 2019-2020.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Quang Thanh, director of the Da Nang Department of Information and Communication, talks to Nhân dân (People) newspaper on Da Nang’s plan to transform into a smart city.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The central city officially introduced the Sakura-Olympia bilingual school, a combined education system of kindergarten, junior and high school, in the 2018-19 school year.

HCMC is drafting a plan on attracting ‘people with special talents’, offering pay of VND20-30 million a month, which includes monthly salary and allowances.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Months after its opening the Golden Bridge in Da Nang continues to grab the world’s attention.

An exhibition displaying old photos and documents relating to the fight of the Vietnamese people against French-Spanish coalition forces in Da Nang in 1858-60 opened at the Nghĩia Trung Hoa Vang

Da Nang’s tourism promotion centre has launched a photo contest titled ‘Fantastic Da Nang’, which will run from August 20 to November 10. The competition is a chance for both Vietnamese and foreign photographers 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Historical artefacts dating back a thousand years have been uncovered in the suburbs of Da Nang. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – A massive professional art performance at Trung Vuong Theatre has opened the annual National Music and Dance Festival being held in the central coastal city of Da Nang from August 21-31.

Opening the door and allowing talented individuals to move from state agencies to the private sector will lead to a ‘brain drain’ and trigger a ‘battle for talent’, experts have warned.

Having graduated with a degree in biology and environmental studies from the Da Nang Teachers’ Training College, Bui Van Tuan has explored remote forests across central Vietnam to conduct his scientific research

VietNamNet Bridge - Da Nang is reconsidering its decision to continue a program on training talent for the city’s agencies.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The scenery surrounding Gieng Troi (The Well of Heaven) is so beautiful and pristine that all travelers coming to the site not only feel tranquil, but also respectful to the nature all around.

 "Vietnam’s nature reserves and national parks are aiming to boost eco-tourism to facilitate both conservation and economic growth, but their efforts have been hampered by a lack of planning, human resources and funds," 

VietNamNet Bridge - The demand for hotels in HCMC has been increasing rapidly, prompting investors to pour capital into hotel projects. However, it is difficult to find advantageous land plots to develop hotels.

Da Nang City has been given the title of National Green City 2017-18 by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)’s One Planet City Challenge programme, making it onto a list of 21 cities from around the world.

VietNamNet Bridge - A ‘hotel road’ has taken shape in Da Nang as investors are taking advantage of the strong rise of the local tourism industry.