Ph.D. student Xiong Yuelei bought her first plush cotton toy while investigating the growing trend of “cyber doll parenting” in China for an academic paper. After that, she “kind of disappeared down a ...

Move over Barbie, here comes Labubu. The Chinese maker of the hit monster doll – favored by celebrities including Kim Kardashian and Rihanna – said Tuesday its profit soared nearly 400% in the first ...

Labubu dolls are hard to come by. Even at the giant flagship store of their maker, Pop Mart, in Shanghai, throngs of customers are told they need to wait a week or longer. The grimacing elvish ...

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Fluffy, toothy and bright, Labubu dolls have taken the U.S. by storm. But what actually are they? This is what you need to know about the Chinese product sweeping the internet. China and the U.S., the ...

PARIS — Chinese online retailer Shein has pulled from sale childlike sex dolls after they were found on its website by the French consumer watchdog, the company said Sunday. France’s ...

A sex toy manufacturer in southern China has been ordered to suspend operations after authorities began a formal investigation into allegations that it was producing dolls resembling children. The ...

HANOI — Seething international tensions over the South China Sea have struck an unlikely victim in Vietnam: popular children's dolls pulled from shops over a facial mark supposedly resembling ...