10 Year Old Weekly Beach Party Keeps Its Momentum

14 April 2009, 5:05 am

Loc Chau\'s On China Beach

At 4PM on Saturday, the regular crowd of local Aussie expats, NGO employees, American veterans with Vietnamese wives and travelers passing through gathered at Loc Chau’s restaurant on China Beach.  It's the weekly event whose only purpose is chewing the fat, catching up on all the... Read More »

Three missing American GIs finally come home from Vietnam

08 April 2009, 3:03 am

Ambassador Michalak (center) accepts the remains of three missing servicemen at Da Nang Airport, Vietnam

On Saturday, April 4, 2009, at a ceremony held at the Da Nang International Airport, the remains of three US servicemen missing since the end of the war where officially handed over to the United States.  In attendance were the US Ambassador Michael W. Michalak, the JPAC Detachment 2, local... Read More »

Grand Opening of the Hoa Sen Restaurant, Da Nang, Vietnam

22 March 2009, 8:08 pm

On the first day of Spring we visited the Hoa Sen Restaurant. The Hoa Sen is located at Lo 5A, Pham Van Dong St. just a short walk from the beach.   The Hao Sen is the only restaurant on the street in a permanent building.  This allows Mr. Mien and Ms. Hoa to offer not only delicious Da... Read More »

More Russian Tourists Visiting Vietnam's Da Nang By Air

16 May 2012, 2:25 am

HANOI, May 16 (Bernama) - The second chartered flight carrying 150 tourists from Russia arrived in the central Da Nang city on Wednesday after the first flight with 140 visitors on board arrived earlier on May 12, Vietnam news agency reported.... Read More »

Russian tourists to flock to Da Nang on new charter flights

13 May 2012, 4:56 am

Tourism officials in central Vietnam said a large number of Russian visitors will soon fly to the city to assess its tourism potentials via a temporary charter flight program.... Read More »

VietJetAir begins Ho Chi Minh City-Da Nang service

12 May 2012, 3:41 am

Vietnam’s private low-cost carrier VietJetAir has launched a second route with two new daily flights linking Ho Chi Minh City to Da Nang, the largest city in central Vietnam.... Read More »

Best of the best

12 May 2012, 2:26 am

After the explosive successes of four previous competitions, their top winners were brought together for a fifth – this year’s Da Nang International Fireworks Competition.... Read More »

UXO consumes forest in central Vietnam

11 May 2012, 8:08 am

A pair of leftover ordnance explosions set off a forest fire near Da Nang International Airport on Thursday.... Read More »

US agency to conduct high-tech dioxin cleanup at Da Nang airport

11 May 2012, 8:07 am

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) said it will begin work on cleaning up Agent Orange/dioxin contamination at Da Nang Airport in Vietnam.... Read More »

War era bombs trigger wildfire, 100 hectares of forest destroyed

11 May 2012, 7:37 am

A fierce fire triggered by a war-era bomb explosion in the central city of Da Nang was extinguished Thursday, more than ten hours after it broke out, leaving some 100 hectares of forests destroyed.... Read More »

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