But over the years, Shein has come under intense scrutiny over welfare standards, modern slavery concerns and how it monitors its Chinese factory partners. Most of those factories are in the so ...

The rapid rise of ultra-fast fashion retailer Shein has been so key to the fortunes of a group of urban villages on the outskirts of China's southern metropolis of Guangzhou that they have been ...

On a recent visit to Shein villages in Panyu District, however, the mood was glum. Three factory bosses along with four local downstream suppliers said Shein's local orders were in decline ...