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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Robin Li, chairman and chief executive officer of Baidu Inc., during the Baidu World conference in Beijing, China, on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. Li declared his company’s large language model has finally caught up with OpenAI’s most advanced GPT-4, claiming the lead in his country’s race to develop AI that can rival the US. Source: Bloomberg

Baidu reveals expectations-beating earnings and touts its new ChatGPT-like AI models, amid leadership chaos at U.S. competitor OpenAI

Calvin McDonald (Photo by Jeff Fried/WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images)

Rejecting the season-to-season model is why Lululemon can keep innovating, says CEO Calvin McDonald

This picture taken on November 9, 2023 shows illuminated signs displayed in the window of an outlet for the Australian communications company Optus. The boss of Australian telecoms provider Optus has resigned following a mass outage that cut communications to more than 10 million people, its parent group said on November 20, 2023. (Photo by DAVID GRAY / AFP) (Photo by DAVID GRAY/AFP via Getty Images)

Australia’s second-largest telco loses its CEO after a network outage that hit almost 40% of the country’s population

BEIJING, CHINA – JULY 14: Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd. signage is displayed outside the company’s offices on July 14, 2022 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Kuang Da/JIEMIAN NEWS/VCG via Getty Images)

A series of bad news stories—including an abandoned cloud spin-off plan—wipe billions from Alibaba’s market cap

A panel discussion on building an equal office at a Fortune China conference in Shanghai on Nov. 2, 2023.

Chinese corporate leaders worry a push to have babies could hurt gender equality: ‘If someone has to sacrifice in the family, it’s always the woman’

Stanford University in Stanford, California, US, on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. Stanford in 2022 raised more than $1 billion, for the sixth consecutive year, including its largest-ever gift for a new climate school. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

India is nearing China as the U.S.’s largest source of international students, as enrolment comes close to pre-pandemic levels

LIANYUNGANG, CHINA – NOVEMBER 12, 2023 – Postmen sort parcels at the postal Express logistics business department in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China, Nov 12, 2023. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Alibaba and JD’s decision to withhold Singles Day data punctures last chance to see a China consumption revival this year

Signage atop an Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. (ICBC) branch in Shanghai, China, on Monday, March 27, 2023. ICBC is scheduled to release earnings results on March 30. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Suspected Russian hackers disrupted the market in U.S. Treasuries by attacking China’s—and the world’s—largest bank

Jesper Brodin, chief executive officer of Ikea Group, pauses during a panel session on day three of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020. World leaders, influential executives, bankers and policy makers attend the 50th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos from Jan. 21 – 24. Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Ingka Group CEO Jesper Brodin says there’s no ‘middle way’ on China—and you can’t suddenly de-risk ‘if you invest like we do’

Manoj Punjabi, CEO and founder, of MD Entertainment at a meeting with shareholders on June 9, 2023 at the company’s headquarters.

The CEO behind Indonesia’s biggest movie ever wants to make your next foreign film hit : ‘I see ourselves as South Korea 15 years ago’

A woman poses for a photo at a display outside a popular electronics chain store advertising the latest offering from Japanese gaming giant Nintendo’s long-running “Legend of Zelda” game series – “Tears of the Kingdom” – which went on sale in Tokyo on May 12, 2023. A six-year wait came to an end for “Zelda” fans across the world on May 12 as Nintendo released the long-awaited next instalment of its 40-year-old gaming saga. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks / AFP) (Photo by RICHARD A. BROOKS/AFP via Getty Images)

Nintendo is taking another swing at Hollywood, following up its billion-dollar Mario smash by adapting another famous IP: ‘The Legend of Zelda’

Lawrence Wong, Singapore’s deputy prime minister and finance minister, speaks during the Milken Institute Asia Summit in Singapore, on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. The summit runs through Sept. 15. Photographer: Ore Huiying/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Singapore’s delayed prime minister switch could happen next November—and elevate the man who helped lead the country’s COVID response

An employee wears protective clothing before entering a cleanroom at the Globalfoundries Inc. 7H semiconductor fabrication plant in Singapore, on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. GlobalFoundries was created by purchasing the manufacturing operations of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. in 2009 and later combining it with Singapore’s Chartered Semiconductor. Photographer: Edwin Koo/Bloomberg via Getty Images

How Singapore and its population of just six million is beating much bigger countries in the race to attract chip manufacturing

HANGZHOU, CHINA – OCTOBER 31, 2023 – Visitors visit the NVIDIA booth at the 2023 Hangzhou Apsara Conference in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, October 31, 2023. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Nvidia wobbles on fear U.S. export rules could force it to cancel over $5 billion worth of advanced chip orders to China

A man walks past a signboard of Samsung Electronics displayed outside the company’s Seocho building in Seoul on October 11, 2023. Samsung Electronics said on October 11, it expected third-quarter operating profits to plunge nearly 80 percent, as the firm grapples with weak demand for memory chips. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP) (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)

Samsung narrows its semiconductor losses, giving hope that the chip slump is nearing a turning point