Hanoi, Dec. 29 -- A balanced and constructive approach among overseas Vietnamese (OV) helps foster healthy dialogues, avoid extremism, and strengthen consensus and cohesion within the global Vietnamese community in contributing ideas to the development of the homeland, according to Tran Thu Dung, a Vietnamese intellectual in France. Dung stressed that freedom of expression is an important value, but it must go hand in hand with responsibility, objectivity and a constructive spirit. Contributed ideas aimed at improving the country deserve appreciation, while extreme, ill-intentioned or hostile views do not reflect the shared aspiration to build and develop the nation, she said. Dung underlined that effective dialogue requires a balanced an...