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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HANGZHOU, CHINA – SEPTEMBER 26, 2024 – A stock investor’s mobile phone shows a surge in the Shanghai Stock Exchange in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Sept 26, 2024. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Local investors will get to take part in China’s post-stimulus share surge when markets reopen Tuesday

Nintendo pop-up store at Japan Expo 2024 edition at the Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre, France, on 14 July 2024. This festival focuses on manga, cosplay, anime and video games. (Photo by Stephane Mouchmouche / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP) (Photo by STEPHANE MOUCHMOUCHE/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images)

Nintendo shares rise after Saudi Arabia says it’s open to expanding its stake in the home of Super Mario

Commuters at North-East Line Hougang Station Platform.

Singaporeans often gripe about the city’s metro. Now one of its operators says ‘the Singapore experience’ helps it succeed globally

Brian Gu, co-president of Xpeng Inc., at the Berlin Global Dialogue in Berlin, Germany, on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. The forum runs until Wednesday, Oct. 2. Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg via Getty Images

China EV startup Xpeng wants to bring ‘the best technology’ to Europe as the EU is set to finalize new tariffs on auto imports

Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates LP, speaks during an interview on the sidelines of the Milken Institute Asia Summit in Singapore, on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. The summit runs through Sept. 20. Photographer: Ore Huiying/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Longtime China bull Ray Dalio says Beijing now has to choose between ‘beautiful deleveraging’ and economic malaise

Signage is displayed at the Oracle Corp. headquarters campus in Redwood City, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020. Oracle Corp., the world’s second-largest software maker, is weighing a surprise bid for part of TikTok’s business, seeking to rival Microsoft Corp. in the race to acquire the viral video streaming app, according to people familiar with the matter. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Malaysia bags another cloud deal from U.S. Big Tech with $6.5 billion pledge from Oracle

Residential and commercial buildings in Guangzhou, China, on Tuesday, July 30, 2024. China’s ruling Communist Party pledged to make boosting consumer spending a greater policy focus, as weak domestic demand threatens the nation’s annual growth target despite an export boom. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images

China’s beleaguered real estate shares jump almost 10% after Beijing makes its ‘strongest housing pledge to date’

Jeffrey Gan (right), Sime Darby Motors’ Southeast Asia managing director with Eagle Zhao, managing director of BYD Malaysia at the launch of the enhanced Atto 3 in Ara Damansara, Selangor, Malaysia on May 3, 2024.

BYD’s Southeast Asian partner explains what helped the Chinese EV brand break out overseas: Putting the steering wheel on the right side

Customers look at Huawei Technologies Corp. Mate XT smartphones at one of the company’s stores in Shanghai, China, on Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. The so-called trifold phone from Huawei, dubbed the Mate XT and starting at 19,999 yuan ($2,800), took over five years of development and promises to fit a 10-inch tablet in a pocket. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Apple and Huawei’s newest devices are going head-to-head in China. Yet both could struggle in the world’s largest smartphone market

Employees work on an electric vehicle (EV) production line at the Leapmotor factory in Jinhua, China’s eastern Zhejiang province on September 18, 2024. (Photo by ADEK BERRY / AFP) (Photo by ADEK BERRY/AFP via Getty Images)

China is a ‘fire-breathing dragon on government steroids’ whose tech will surpass Western firms in a decade, U.S. think tank says

Pedestrians pass commercial buildings in the central business district in Singapore, on Thursday, April 11, 2024. Singapore’s central bank kept its monetary policy unchanged for a fourth straight time on still-elevated price pressures, a decision seen by some economists as indicative that tight settings will probably stay in the months ahead. Photographer: Ore Huiying/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Singapore is the only Southeast Asian city on a ranking of centi-millionaires—and that could be good for its economy

This picture taken on June 30, 2019 shows people walking at an indoor amusement park in Genting Highlands resort outside of Kuala Lumpur. (Photo by MOHD RASFAN / AFP) (Photo credit should read MOHD RASFAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Malaysia’s only casino is in the political crosshairs as an Islamic party calls for its closure

CHONGQING, CHINA – SEPTEMBER 10: A man walks past a Rolex storefront while carrying an umbrella and shopping bag on September 10, 2024 in Chongqing, China. (Photo by Cheng Xin/Getty Images)

China is no longer the ‘undisputed leader’ in attracting foreign investment as European companies look elsewhere

HANGZHOU, CHINA – SEPTEMBER 8, 2024 – The pre-order page of HUAWEI triple-foldable mobile phone HUAWEI Mate XT ULTIMATE is pictured at a Huawei store in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Sept 8, 2024. Huawei’s first three-fold mobile phone opened its reservation at 12:08 on September 7, and as of 10:50 on September 8, less than 24 hours after the reservation opened, Huawei Mall showed that the number of reservations for the product had exceeded 2 million. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Huawei’s tri-fold phone crosses 3 million preorders as Chinese tech giant keeps up pressure on Apple in China

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA – SEPTEMBER 02: U.S. President Joe Biden and Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris wave to the crowd during a campaign event at IBEW Local Union #5 on September 02, 2024 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. President Joe Biden joined Vice President Harris for her second Labor Day event, for the first time on the campaign trail since he departed the Democratic ticket and Harris was confirmed as the Democratic Party’s nominee for the 2024 presidential election against Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump. The event was attended by members of the IBEW,United Steelworkers, AFSCME, and other unions. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Washington attacks on Nippon’s bid for U.S. Steel puts ally Japan’s spot on ‘friends and family list’ into doubt