Late in the afternoon of March 20, 2025, a car carrying five Vietnamese passengers set off from Antwerp (Belgium) straight towards Luxembourg. At the wheel was a businessman — whose name will be mentioned later —driving representatives of the “Vietnamese brainpower in Belgium” to join forces with their counterparts in Luxembourg to establish the Vietnamese Intellectuals Association in Belgium and Luxembourg (ViLaB). One year on, just how strong has this line-up become?