Lionel Lim

Lionel Lim is a Singapore based reporter covering the Asia-Pacific region. Before joining Fortune he spent time at BBC in Singapore, and CGTN and CNN in the United States.

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View of the electric vehicle EV factory of China's carmaker GAC Aion in Rayong province, Thailand.

Thailand, the ‘Detroit of Southeast Asia’, is at the forefront of China’s battle for the global auto market

Karim Habib, senior vice president and head of Kia Design Center, during the 2024 New York International Auto Show (NYIAS) in New York, US, on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. The event, which first opened in November 1900, is North America’s oldest and largest attended auto show. Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images

EVs and their ‘innate feeling of luxury’ will create a ‘new type of premium,’ says Kia’s top designer

BEIJING, CHINA – MAY 06: Zhong Shanshan, founder and chairman of bottled water company Nongfu Spring, thumbs up at a Nongfu Spring press conference on May 6, 2013 in Beijing, China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)

China’s richest person wants a personal apology from ByteDance’s founder for not stopping social media attacks against him

Gautam Adani, billionaire and chairman of Adani Group, in the Congress Center on day two of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. The annual Davos gathering of political leaders, top executives and celebrities runs from January 15 to 19. Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Adani Group shares plunge by double digits after U.S. accuses Indian billionaire Gautam Adani of bribery

Visitors inspect the Apple iPhone 16 at the Thailand Mobile Expo 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand, on October 26, 2024. The expo showcases the newest smartphone and gadget devices aimed at boosting sales after Thailand’s economy shows signs of recovery. (Photo by Anusak Laowilas/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Apple’s said to increase its Indonesia investment tenfold to reverse iPhone sales ban, signaling the country’s growing importance for U.S. tech giant

GuocoLand Group CEO Cheng Hsing Yao. Cheng has been the CEO of the real estate developer since 2021.<br />
Courtesy of GuocoLand

Leading Singapore property developer CEO says simplicity beats complexity when it comes to design: ‘Boring is okay’

Michele Ferrario, co-founder and CEO of StashAway, a Singapore-headquartered digital wealth management platform.

Asia’s fintech firms are eyeing the Middle East for expansion because of low competition and a ‘future friendly’ regulator

By Lionel Lim and Nicholas Gordon

Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., left, and Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp., during a fireside chat at the Nvidia AI Summit Japan in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024. SoftBank will be the first Nvidia customer to build a supercomputer based on the chipmaker’s new Blackwell design, a move to meet growing demand in a country eager to catch up in artificial intelligence. Photographer: Akio Kon/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Jensen Huang reveals Softbank’s Masayoshi Son once offered to lend him money to buy Nvidia

Grab drivers travel on a street in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Aug. 13, 2024. Grab Holdings Ltd. is scheduled to release earnings results on Aug. 15. Photographer: Dimas Ardian/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Grab CEO Anthony Tan singles out one market as shares soar after blowout quarter: ‘Everybody loves Thailand’

Charles Cascarilla, co-founder and chief executive officer of Paxos, speaks during the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami, Florida, U.S., on Wednesday, April 6, 2022. The Bitcoin 2022 four-day conference is touted by organizers as “the biggest Bitcoin event in the world.” Photographer: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Trump’s return could herald a ‘crypto golden age’ says CEO of stablecoin firm Paxos

Richard Teng, CEO of Binance, speaking at a Fortune-hosted session at the Insights Forum in Singapore on Nov. 5, 2024.

Asia’s Wild West nature spurs its fintech surge—but Binance’s CEO thinks Western companies will still have an ‘outsized say’ in the financial system

Ren Zhengfei, founder and chief executive officer of Huawei Technologies Co., left, speaks during an interview at the company’s headquarters in Shenzhen, China, on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019. Ren, the billionaire telecom mogul, broke a years-long silence as his technology empire faces its biggest crisis over three decades of existence. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Huawei is ‘still struggling,’ says founder Ren Zhengfei, as the tech company rebounds from years of sanctions

A worker of Japanese automobile giant Toyota Motor assembles auto parts to newly designed Crown at the company’s Motomachi plant in Toyota city near Nagoya, central Japan on July 30, 2018. (Photo by Yoshikazu TSUNO/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Toyota’s hybrid success can’t make up for recalls, faulty data, and Chinese competition, as September sales slump 7.4%

Luckin Coffee, the buzzy chain that outsells Starbucks in China, reportedly plans a U.S. expansion

HANGZHOU, CHINA – OCTOBER 21: A customer selects iPhone 16 series smart phones at an Apple store on October 21, 2024 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province of China. Apple announced the first price cut on its iPhone 16 lineup for China’s Double 11 shopping festival. (Photo by Long Wei/VCG via Getty Images)

Apple returned to China’s top 5 smartphone sellers last quarter—but Huawei’s growth dwarfs the competition