Pins matching date:2025-11-05

France's government said on 5 November 2025 that it was suspending Shein's e-commerce platform in the country after the DGCCRF found the marketplace selling sex dolls "with a childlike appearance." Economy Minister Roland Lescure had warned two days earlier that Shein could be barred from the French market entirely if such listings recurred.

China's navy commissioned the 80,000-ton Fujian, its third aircraft carrier and first with electromagnetic catapults, at Yulin Naval Base on Hainan with Xi Jinping in attendance.

Qualcomm closed fiscal 2025 with record QCT chip revenue and $44.3 billion in total sales, but a $5.7 billion non-cash tax charge tied to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act turned the quarter to a GAAP loss.

Shein opened a permanent corner covering more than 1,000 square metres on the sixth floor of the BHV Marais department store in Paris on 5 November 2025, its first physical store anywhere in the world. The opening drew protests and a heavy police presence.

Six tonnes of Hokkaido scallops were shipped to China, the first Japanese seafood sent there since Beijing's total ban of August 2023, after China reopened to most prefectures.