Shopping app Temu suspended in Vietnam: state media [Video]

Shopping app Temu has been forced to suspend its services in Vietnam after it failed to register with authorities, state media said on Thursday.

Goods ordered on Temu were no longer being cleared through customs in Vietnam, state media reported, after the company missed an end-of-November deadline to register with the ministry of industry and trade.

It was not clear when or if Temu, which is owned by Chinese e-commerce giant PDD Holdings, would be able to resume business.

Separately, online fashion retailer Shein said that the Vietnamese version of its website was “temporarily unavailable”, adding that it was working with the ministry of industry and trade “to register our e-commerce services”.

Shein, which was founded in China but is now headquartered in Singapore, had faced the same deadline as Temu to register, but there was no reference to the company in state media Thursday.

Neither Shein nor Vietnamese authorities …