The coin, issued by the Royal Australian Mint last month, shows the flag of the now-defunct South Vietnamese government.

first for North Vietnam and later as the unified flag after the Vietnam War. During the Vietnam War, the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam, also known as the Viet Cong, used a flag with a red ...

Vietnam has urged Australia to halt circulation of the coin Vietnam has strongly protested against Australia's issuance of a coin with an image of the yellow flag of South Vietnam. Vietnam said ...

Overhead, a giant blue balloon bobbed gently, and huge orange pennants, striped’ in the red of the South Vietnamese flag, fluttered in the breeze. Some 25,000 troops lined the streets leading to ...