Vietnam Morning Monitor: Centuries-old shipwreck off Hoi An to be displayed in museum, Nha Trang bans beach soccer citing tourist safety concerns
Vietnam News 07:30 08/11/2026Vietnamese man arrested in $429,000 overseas home purchase scam. Vietnam, Japan push to open markets for pomelos, grapes and more farm products. Da Nang eliminates mobile dead zones. And there's more in today's morning news roundup.
Centuries-old shipwreck resurfaces off Vietnam's central coast
Vietnam News 10:32 26/07/2026New photos show the structural frame of an ancient wooden shipwreck fully emerging from the sands along the coast of Da Nang in central Vietnam, more than two years after it was first spotted in the area.
Colombia shows first treasures recovered from 300-year-old shipwreck
World 11:03 21/11/2025Colombian authorities on Thursday showed off the first objects to be recovered from a treasure-crammed Spanish galleon that sank off the coast 300 years ago: three gold and bronze coins, a canon and a porcelain cup.
Centuries-old shipwreck exposed on Vietnam beach after storm Kalmaegi
Vietnam News 11:13 11/11/2025The Hoi An World Cultural Heritage Conservation Center has submitted a report on the current condition and preliminary findings regarding a shipwreck believed to be of historical significance in Da Nang City, central Vietnam.
One diver killed, two others missing at shipwreck salvage site in Ho Chi Minh City outskirts
Vietnam News 16:59 12/12/2019A group of divers were salvaging shipping containers from a sunken cargo ship when an accident occurred
Da Nang exhibits fishing boat sunk by China off Vietnam’s Hoang Sa archipelago
Vietnam News 16:33 30/05/2019The boat was operating in Vietnamese waters when it was sunk by a Chinese vessel on May 26, 2014
Vietnamese ministry proposes spending $2mn on salvaging 16th century shipwreck
Economy 16:53 22/06/2018The hefty price tag doesn’t include the $440,000 needed for on-site security
Up to 700 feared dead after migrant boat sinks off Libya
World 16:30 19/04/2015Twenty eight people were rescued in the incident, which happened in an area just off Libyan waters, south of the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, an Italian coast guard official said
Ancient crater found off central Vietnam
Vietnam News 10:13 12/02/2015An intact vestige of a millennia-old crater has recently been discovered off a central Vietnamese province, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment
Cham Isle antiques divided among local government, excavator
Travel 10:15 31/05/201313,906 antique items were shared on May 29 by Quang Nam’s Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Doan Anh Duong Co., which excavated the site where the antiques were found from 2004 to 2007.