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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Panote Sirivadhanabhakdi, group chief executive officer of TCC Assets Ltd. and chief executive officer of Frasers Centrepoint Ltd., speaks during a news conference in Bangkok, Thailand, on Thursday, Sept. 14. 2017. Frasers Centrepoint, a Singapore real estate company, will buy four business parks in the U.K. for about 686 million pounds ($900 million) from Oaktree Capital Management LP. Photographer: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Frasers Property stays confident in Southeast Asia despite tariff headwinds: ‘Demand is still there’

Forrest Li, Chairman and CEO of Sea, speaking at the company’s rebrand of its financial services arm to Monee on May 8, 2025, at Rochester Commons in Singapore.

Sea rebrands its fintech arm to Monee, a ‘cute’ name for an increasingly important business

WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 30: President and CEO of Nvidia Jensen Huang speaks on AI at the return of American manufacturing at the Hill and Valley Forum at the U.S. Capitol on April 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. The Hill and Valley Forum brings together lawmakers, tech CEOs, and venture capitalists to discuss technology and national security. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang warns of a ‘tremendous loss’ if U.S. firms lose access to China’s $50 billion AI market

BAYONNE, NJ – FEBRUARY 1: Shipping containers stand on a dock at the Port Jersey container terminal in front of the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building in New York City on February 1, 2025, as seen from Bayonne, New Jersey. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

U.S. and Chinese officials are finally set to meet for trade talks, a month after Trump hiked tariffs to a sky-high 145%

Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia’s prime minister, during the Asean Investment Conference 2025 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Tuesday, April 8, 2025. Ibrahim said his country and Association of Southeast Asian Nations partners will dispatch officials to Washington D.C. for talks following President Donald Trump’s rollout of global tariffs. Photographer: Samsul Said/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Southeast Asia searches for a U.S. trade deal, but the damage from Trump’s tariffs is already done

SPAIN – FEBRUARY 11: Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary during a Ryanair press conference on February 11, 2025, in Madrid, Spain. During the appearance, they discussed the company’s current situation regarding carry-on baggage and related policies following the latest controversies with the government. (Photo By Eduardo Parra/Europa Press via Getty Images)

Ryanair threatens to ‘reassess’ a $30 billion Boeing order after getting U.S. flak for considering China’s COMAC jets

Anthony Tan, co-founder and group CEO of mobile technology company Grab, which provides ride-hailing, food and groceries delivery services, speaks during its inaugural GrabX event in Singapore on April 8, 2025. (Photo by Roslan RAHMAN / AFP) (Photo by ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

What uncertainty? Grab upgrades forecast and claims tougher economy might help its ride-hailing business

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA – APRIL 29: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese holds a member of the public’s dog during a visit Sunnybank Market Square in the electorate of Moreton on April 29, 2025 in Brisbane, Australia. The Australian federal election will be held on Saturday, May 3. (Photo by Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images)

Trump’s tariffs are shaking up elections in Australia, Singapore and South Korea

By Nicholas Gordon and Lionel Lim

The Headquarters of the Insurance corporation Allianz SE in Munich. (Photo by Alexander Pohl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

A failed takeover bid by Global 500 insurer Allianz is now a political hot potato in Singapore’s election

China’s Huawei encroaches further on Nvidia’s turf and is reportedly set to test a new AI chip aimed at the H100

Steven Townend, CEO of Singapore-headquartered airplane leasing firm BOC Aviation.

Boeing will find it ‘relatively easy’ to find customers for China’s rejected planes, says jet leasing CEO

Match Group Asia’s CEO Malgosia Green.

South Korea’s ‘shocking’ fall in marriages is a dating-app opportunity, says Match Group’s Asia CEO

The Venetian casino resort, operated by Sands China Ltd., a unit of Las Vegas Sands Corp., along the Cotai strip in Macau, China, on Thursday, May 2, 2024. Macau’s casino industry showed resilience in April, with gaming revenue surpassing analyst estimates despite weeks of bad weather in southern China. Photographer: Eduardo Leal/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Las Vegas Sands slaps down worries that U.S.-China tensions could threaten its Macau casinos

Carl Raymond Cruz, Globe Telecom’s new CEO, speaking at a media briefing at the Fairmont Makati Hotel in Metro Manila on April 22, 2025.

The new CEO of the Philippines’ largest telco says his Nigeria and India experience taught him to ‘never underestimate’ any market

Visitors are viewing Tesla’s humanoid robot Optimus Prime II at WAIC in Shanghai, China, on July 7, 2024. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Elon Musk worries Chinese companies will fill out the world’s top 10 robot makers—but claims Tesla is, and will stay, No. 1