Welkin Lei has been doing some paper-napkin calculations in his spare time and the numbers for having another child just ...

Vietnam on Tuesday scrapped its nearly four-decade policy limiting families to two children, as Vietnamese birth rates continue to drop, the older population increases and officials warn of the ...

The country launched a new three-child policy to address its declining birth rate, but couples remain resistant to the idea of having more children.

Vietnam has ended its two-child policy in hopes of a resurgence of youth in an aging population. The communist country's National Assembly passed a new amendment that nullifies families from having a ...

China's one-child policy, enforced nationwide from 1979, is facing renewed criticism as they confronts mounting pressure to ...

Fang, then a third grader, hemmed and hawed at the simple question as her teacher waited impatiently, unaware the 9-year-old was caught in a dilemma. Since preschool, Fang had been officially ...

Even though the regulation was loosely enforced, the nation’s birthrate fell to a record low last year. By Damien Cave Reporting from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Vietnam has eliminated its policy of ...

HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnam has abolished its long-standing two-child limit to try and reverse declining birth rates and ease the pressures of an aging population. The National Assembly passed amendments ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Innovation futurist, keynote speaker and author, based in California. In 1979, China’s leaders implemented the now-infamous “One ...

Vietnam has abolished its long-standing two-child policy to tackle concerns about declining birth and fertility rates. The National Assembly Standing Committee approved a new regulation lifting the ...

China’s one-child policy was not only cruel; it was a failure. Decades of shackling women to beds and forcing them to undergo abortions certainly reduced the birth rate. But it had been falling anyway ...