Da Nang lies on the west side of the Hàn River and the beaches are to the east.

He was charged and jailed for stealing money from the project and for bribery, but the men who took the bribes were never revealed.

[2][3] According to Radio Free Asia, the People's Procuracy of Da Nang City concluded in the Document No.

77/KSDT/KT (November 2000) sent to the Supreme People's Procuracy of Vietnam and Phan Diễn (then-Secretary of Communist Party Committee of Danang) that Nguyễn Bá Thanh received bribes from Phạm Minh Thông (4.4 billion VND in total) in the construction projects of Hàn River Bridge and North-South Street in Danang.

Vietnamese mass media (which, according to Human Rights Watch and Reporters Without Borders, are all strictly controlled by the government[4][5]) were censored and even praised Thanh for his "many contributions" in the development of Da Nang City.