The French government said on Wednesday that it was suspending access to the online retailer Shein until the company proved that its content complied with French laws, after the discovery this week o...

Shein has been banned in France on the very day it opened its first-ever physical store – as fury erupted over child sex dolls being sold on the website.

Shein's spokesman in France, Quentin Ruffat, has chalked up the sale of the dolls to "a malfunction in our processes and governance".