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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RONGCHENG, CHINA – AUGUST 24: Researchers check samples from a photobioreactor at a zero-carbon microalgae cultivation workshop in Ailun Bay on August 24, 2021 in Rongcheng, Weihai City, Shandong Province of China. (Photo by Yang Zhili/VCG via Getty Images)

Washington’s scrutiny of Chinese and Chinese American scientists is hurting their productivity—and global scientific cooperation

Buildings in the business district in Singapore, on Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022. Singapore is scheduled to announce its third quarter advanced gross domestic product (GDP) estimate on Oct 10, 2022. Photographer: Ore Huiying/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Singapore is trying to be a wealth hub. Now 6 family offices that got tax breaks are tied to the nation’s biggest money-laundering case

A man rides his motorcycle past the entrance of the Japanese embassy in Beijing on August 29, 2023. Japan said on August 29 that harassment being faced by Japanese in China after the release of water from the Fukushima nuclear plant was “extremely regrettable”, confirming that a brick was thrown at the country’s embassy in Beijing. (Photo by Pedro PARDO / AFP) (Photo by PEDRO PARDO/AFP via Getty Images)

China’s social media companies pledge to clamp down on anti-Japanese posts after a fatal stabbing attack last week

An employees works on an assembly line in the mobile phone plant of Rising Stars Mobile India Pvt., a unit of Foxconn Technology Co., in Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, India, on Friday, July 12, 2019. Foxconn, also known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., opened its first India factory four years ago, it now operates two assembly plants with plans to expand those and open two more. The company was integral to Chinas transformation into a manufacturing colossus, and founder Terry Gou has told India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi that Foxconn could help India do the same. Photographer: Karen Dias/Bloomberg via Getty Images

India’s human rights watchdog targets Foxconn over claims the Apple supplier refused to hire married women

SHANGHAI, CHINA – JULY 6, 2023 – Alibaba’s stand at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China, July 6, 2023. On June 27, 2024, the group stage of the European Football Championship came to an end, and five Chinese enterprises, BYD, VIVO, Hisense, Ant Group (Alipay) and Alibaba (AliExpress), became the official global sponsors of the European Cup. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

China’s AI companies are reportedly rationing the use of their services because they don’t have enough chips

Computer, Female programmer and male training for coding, cyber security or software on computer. Female IT specialist, male coder or talking to connect internet, information update and cloud computing . coding development concept.

Cybersecurity is now a ‘team sport’ amid a wave of generative AI–based attacks, say tech experts

TAIZHOU, CHINA – APRIL 14: Tourists wearing Hanfu, a style of clothing traditionally worn by the Han people, enjoy the spring scenery of Yong An Park on April 14, 2024 in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province of China. (Photo by Wang Huabin/VCG via Getty Images)

Beijing backtracks on a law punishing clothing that hurts ‘the feelings of the Chinese people’ after public outcry

Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy may have just two years to take over China’s market for weight-loss drugs

The Marina Bay Sands hotel and casino and the Merlion statue in Singapore, on Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Singapore’s incoming Prime Minister Lawrence Wong picked Trade Minister Gan Kim Yong as his deputy, keeping the cabinet of outgoing premier Lee Hsien Loong largely intact. Photographer: Lauryn Ishak/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Singapore retains its title as the most expensive city for rich people to live ‘extremely well’ while Hong Kong rises to second place, Julius Baer says

Microsoft flags are being seen in front of the World Conference Center during the Microsoft AI training roadshow in Bonn, Germany, on May 22, 2024. (Photo by Ying Tang/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The White House explains why it liked Microsoft’s investment in UAE AI champion G42: It got Huawei out of the way

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The CEO behind Singapore’s largest realtor thinks the city’s housing market will stay cool through the year—but he’s ‘very excited’ about 2025

22 June 2024, China, Peking: Robert Habeck (Alliance 90/The Greens, l), Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection, speaks with Wang Wentao, Minister of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China, during a bilateral meeting between the German Minister of Economic Affairs and the Chinese Minister of Commerce as part of a trip to the People’s Republic of China. Habeck will be in China until June 23. Photo: Sebastian Gollnow/dpa (Photo by Sebastian Gollnow/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Europe and China agree to talk about EV tariffs, a ‘first step’ to avoid a potential trade war between two of the world’s largest economies

Chinese Premier Li Qiang arrives at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia, June 18, 2024. Li arrived here Tuesday for an official visit to Malaysia at the invitation of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim of Malaysia. (Photo by Rao Aimin/Xinhua via Getty Images)

Malaysia’s China-friendly stance is a bid to get its biggest trading partner to help keep the economy stable: ‘You can’t be choosy’

Dato Muzaffar Hisham, CEO of Maybank Islamic, at the FT Global Banking Summit in London on Dec. 1, 2022.

How do you lend money when you can’t charge interest? Banks in the Muslim world are figuring out how—and winning non-Muslim customers

HANGZHOU, CHINA – JUNE 13, 2024 – Visitors look at BYD’s electric cars at an auto show in Xiaoshan district of Hangzhou city, capital of East China’s Zhejiang province, June 11, 2024. On June 13, 2024, the European Commission said on June 12 that it would impose tariffs of 17.4%, 20% and 38.1% on China’s BYD, Geely Automobile and SAIC Motor, respectively. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Chinese carmakers are losing their appetite for Europe after the EU imposed tariffs on their EVs