'It's the south's defeated flag' says Vietnam after it decries Australia's new commemorative coins


HANOI, May 6 (Bloomberg): Vietnam’s Communist government "resolutely” opposes Australia’s issuance of coin sets depicting the flag of the country’s defeated US-backed southern regime and asks Canberra to halt their distribution.

The "items” contain the yellow flag with three red stripes of a regime that no longer exists, Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Deputy Spokesperson Pham Thu Hang said in a statement posted on the government’s website.

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