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,

The move responded to a record-low birth rate that has persisted below population replacement levels for three years,

Vietnam has put an end to a decade-long policy of limiting families to having no more than two children.Amid the declining birth rate, the National Assembly Standing Committee in Hanoi passed a new regulation,