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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Employees at work inside the clean room manufacturing facility at NationGate Plant 5, Penang, Malaysia.

Malaysia’s AI darling NationGate sees shares tumble after it got raided in a scrap metal smuggling probe

Douglas Adams, president and chief executive officer of NTT Global Data Centers, second left, and Loh Boon Chye, chief executive officer of Singapore Exchange Ltd., third right, pose for a photo after the NTT DC REIT listing ceremony in Singapore, on Monday, July 14, 2025. Singapore’s biggest initial public offering in eight years is offering hope that the country’s stock exchange is finally attractive for new listings. Photographer: Ore Huiying/Bloomberg via Getty Images

NTT DC REIT’s flat trading debut shows Singapore’s struggle to revive a ‘lackluster’ stock market

Las Vegas Sands COO Patrick Dumont (third from left), Sands co-founder Miriam Adelson (third from right), and Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong (second from right) at the groundbreaking ceremony in Singapore on July 15, 2025.

Las Vegas Sands hopes to usher in ‘new era of luxury tourism’ with a new $8 billion casino complex in Singapore

Tan Teck Long, OCBC’s current deputy CEO and head of global wholesale banking, will take over as CEO on Jan. 1, 2026.

OCBC’s next CEO shows the Singaporean bank is still betting on ASEAN-China ties for growth

US President Donald Trump speaks with the press on board Air Force One as he travels from Ochopee, Florida to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland on July 1, 2025. President Trump visited a migrant detention center in a reptile-infested Florida swamp dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.” Trump will attend the opening of the 5,000-bed facility — located at an abandoned airfield in the Everglades wetlands — part of his expansion of deportations of undocumented migrants, his spokeswoman said. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Asia shrugs off Trump’s new tariff threat, as governments hope they can get a deal before Aug. 1

Del Monte Foods canned whole kernel corn, sweet peas and mixed vegetables at a store in New York, US, on Wednesday, July 2, 2025. Canned food company Del Monte Foods filed for bankruptcy, less than a year after executing a controversial debt restructuring. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Del Monte Foods’ bankruptcy rebounds on its Singapore-listed parent company

WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 01: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on the South Lawn before boarding Marine One and departing the White House on July 01, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump is traveling to Ochopee, Florida to visit a newly built immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.” (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Trump touts a Vietnam trade deal victory—but details on transshipment and import pledges remain unclear

An employee refuels a customer’s motorcycle at a PTT Pcl gas station in Bangkok, Thailand, on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023. PTT is scheduled to report results on Thursday. Photographer: Andre Malerba/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Thailand and Cambodia’s border spat pulls in energy giant PTT

Financial services are pushing up the revenues of the Southeast Asia 500’s most prominent tech startups

Employees attend to customers at check out counters inside a 99 Speed Mart Retail Holdings Bhd convenience store in Kelana Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia, on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024. Shares of convenience-store chain 99 Speed Mart rallied more than 14% on their first day of trading after what was Malaysia’s biggest initial public offering in seven years. Photographer: Samsul Said/Bloomberg via Getty Images

99 Speed Mart’s Southeast Asia 500 debut is the latest milestone for the company and its founder, a childhood polio survivor

Singapore airport transportation, skytrain to arrival and transfer platform. (Photo by: ruelleruelle/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Resurgent air travel and a strategic acquisition helped SATS climb over 100 places in the Fortune Southeast Asia 500

Employees at work inside the clean room manufacturing facility at NationGate Plant 5, Penang, Malaysia.

Nvidia and the AI boom helps Malaysia’s NationGate debut on the Fortune Southeast Asia 500 with a 720% revenue surge

A man unloads palm oil seeds from a pickup truck after bringing them from a plantation to sell at a market in Sepaku, East Kalimantan, on July 10, 2024. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP) (Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images)

Agrifood giant Wilmar hands over almost two-thirds of its annual profit to Indonesia as ‘security deposit’ for palm oil corruption case

Buildings in Singapore, on Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. Singapore’s economy ended last year on a stronger note than initially expected, putting the government in a better position to navigate global uncertainties from US tariffs and voters’ cost of living anxieties in an election year. Photographer: Nicky Loh/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The smallest country on the Southeast Asia 500 generated the most revenue

Gojek delivery drivers travel past the GoTo Gojek Tokopedia head office in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Monday, March 18, 2024. PT GoTo Gojek Tokopedia will announce it’s earnings on March 19. Photographer: Dimas Ardian/Bloomberg via Getty Images

GoTo, Indonesia’s onetime tech darling, banks on fintech for its second wind