The central city of Da Nang and Thuringia, a state in central Germany, on May 22 signed a memorandum of understanding on establishing cooperative and friendship relations in the fields of human resources development, investment, trade, science, innovation, and cultural exchange.

The German state of Bremen can serve as an important gateway for Vietnamese businesses to penetrate into the German market and the EU in general, a workshop in Ho Chi Minh City on March 31 heard.