HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam abolished its long-standing two-child limit Tuesday to try and reverse declining birth rates and ease the pressures of an aging population. The National Assembly passed amendments scrapping rules that limit families to having one or two children, state media Vietnam News Agency reported Wednesday.

Vietnam has scrapped its 37-year-old policy of limiting families to two children, as the country faces up to its ageing population and economic worries. The southeast Asian nation was "one of the last holdouts among countries with population-control policies",

By bno - Taipei Office Vietnam's National Assembly has officially repealed its decades-old two-child policy, a move aimed at countering declining birth rates and an ageing population that threaten the country's economic growth AP reports.