The InterContinental Danang Peninsula Resort's La Maison 1888 restaurant has just been named among 10 0f the world's best new restaurants by CNN.  This Resort was recently honoured with the World’s Leading Luxury Resort award for the second time.

The Da Nang People’s Committee recently reported that the city had called on foreign NGOs and international organisations to support more than 90 programmes, projects and non-project aid in 2015.  The total committed funding of more than 189.1 billion VND is a year-on-year increase of 68.3%. 

The Da Nang People’s Committee recently announced the plan to welcome in the 2016 Lunar New Year with 4 spectacular fireworks displays at midnight on the Lunar New Year’s Eve, which will fall on 8 February 2016.  The 15-minute-long displays will each feature 2,000 high-level and 100 low-level fireworks.

Wendy ‘Wendo’ Tuck, the first female Australian Skipper in the history of the Clipper Race, has clinched first place in the Clipper 70 class of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race (RSHYR).  GREAT Britain finished in second place whilst LMAX Exchange came in third.   

3 Russian naval ships comprised of the destroyer Bystry, the oil tanker Boris Butoma and the rescue vessel Altau, carrying about 315 officers and crew members on board, arrived in Tien Sa Port on 6 January at the start of their three-day official visit to the city.  On the same day, the Vice Chairman of the Da Nang People’s Committee, Mr. Ho Ky Minh, met with the ships’ chief officers commanded by Rear Admiral Yuldashev Aleksandr Yurevich.

The Star Cruises’ SuperStar Virgo cruise ship, carrying 1,850 passengers from Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China left Da Nang’s Tien Sa Port on 7 January.  This was the ship’s first visit organised by Saigontourist travel agency to the city in 2016.

Race 7 in the fourteen stage global series, the 2015-2016 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, officially began on 18 January.  The 4,310 nautical mile race from Australia’s Airlie Beach to Viet Nam’s Da Nang took “Da Nang - New Discovery of Asia Race” as its name.

A group of Russian naval ships, comprised of the destroyer Bystry, the oil tanker Boris Butoma and the rescue vessel Altau, all commanded by Rear Admiral Yuldashev Aleksandr Yurevich, arrived in Tien Sa Port on 6 January at the start of their three-day official visit to the city. 

Da Nang People’s Committee recently held a press conference to announce the plans for Race 7 of the 2015-2016 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race.  The 4,310 nautical mile race from Australia’s Airlie Beach to Viet Nam’s Da Nang wil take “Da Nang - New Discovery of Asia Race” as its name.

A workshop entitled ‘Da Nang - New Destination of Asia’ took place at the Cruising Yacht Club in Sydney, Australia on 18 December on the occasion of the Da Nang – Viet Nam yacht in the Clipper 2015-16 Round the World Yacht Race moored in Sydney port from 12-26 December.  The event was co-hosted by the Da Nang People’s Committee and the Vietnamese Embassy in Australia as part of a series of activities to promote Da Nang's tourism in Australia.