Indonesia has asked Alphabet's Google and Apple to block Chinese fast fashion e-commerce firm Temu in their application stores in the country so it cannot be downloaded, a minister said on Friday. The move was intended to pre-emptively protect the country's small and medium-sized businesses against cheap products being offered by PDD Holdings' Temu,

Apple has been asked by the Indonesian government to block the Chinese retailer Temu from the App Store, to try and protect small businesses in the country.

Indonesia has requested Google and Apple to block the Chinese app Temu to protect local small and medium businesses.

The European Union has dialed up scrutiny of Chinese ecommerce marketplace Temu, asking for more information about its compliance with multiple provisions

The European Commission said it had sent a request for information to shopping website Temu under the Digital Services Act (DSA), asking Temu for information on steps it was taking to stop illegal products being sold on its platform.

Chinese online marketplace Temu will have until 21 October to answer European Commission questions on illegal products under the Digital Services Act (DSA).View on euronews