A Northern California city has become the first in the San Francisco Bay Area to ban the flag of the communist Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The San Jose City Council on Tuesday voted unanimously ...

The flag of the Republic of Vietnam now flies alongside the Stars and Stripes at San Jose city hall after a somber ceremony to commemorate the 48th anniversary of the fall of Saigon.

After communist North Vietnam defeated the U.S.-backed South in 1975, scores of South Vietnamese refugees resettled in America. In Vietnam, the North's red flag replaced their yellow one.

A Northern California city has become the first in the San Francisco Bay Area to ban the flag of the communist Socialist Republic of Vietnam, NBC News reported.