Hanoi, Dec. 25 -- Nguyen Trung Kien, Chairman of the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese (SCOV) under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has emphasised that the intellectual and science - technology resources of the overseas Vietnamese (OV) community are a strategic advantage for Vietnam in the global race in the new era. Overseas Vietnamese - strategic resource for national development In his recent article, Kien stressed the particularly important role played by Vietnamese intellectuals and experts abroad in both trying times and pivotal moments of the country. During the resistance period and the early state-building years, many OV intellectuals returned to directly lay the cornerstones for the country's science, technology, health ca...