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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Nvidia Corp. chips during the Taipei Computex expo in Taipei, Taiwan, on Monday, May 29, 2023. In a two-hour presentation in Taiwan, Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang unveiled a new batch of products and services tied to artificial intelligence, looking to capitalize on a frenzy that has made his company the world’s most valuable chipmaker. Photographer: I-Hwa Cheng/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Malaysia is reportedly tracking the flow of Nvidia chips through the Southeast Asian country after pressure from Washington

This photo taken on March 18, 2025 shows a man sitting at a shop selling Baby Three dolls and other toys on a street in Hanoi. Seething international tensions over the South China Sea have struck an unlikely victim in Vietnam: popular children’s dolls pulled from shops over a facial mark supposedly resembling Beijing’s claims in the flashpoint waterway. (Photo by Nhac NGUYEN / AFP) / To go with ‘VIETNAM-CHINA-POLITICS-CONFLICT-TOY’ by Lam NGUYEN (Photo by NHAC NGUYEN/AFP via Getty Images)

A milk tea chain and a toy doll are the latest casualties of Beijing and Hanoi’s competing claims over the South China Sea

ComfortDelGro’s CEO Cheng Siak Kian with one of the company’s robotaxis in Guangzhou.

Singaporean taxi operator ComfortDelGro hopes robotaxis can future-proof the industry, as aging populations lead to fewer drivers

View of the Port of Balboa, managed by CK Hutchison Holdings, based in Hong Kong, located at the entrance to the Panama Canal in Panama City, on March 12, 2025. (Photo by MARTIN BERNETTI / AFP) (Photo by MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP via Getty Images)

Beijing criticizes CK Hutchison’s $23 billion Panama Canal deal by reposting commentary that slams it as ‘an act of submission’

People shopping for tourist snacks in Big C Rajdamri in Bangkok.

Trump tariffs on Thailand may be unavoidable says the CEO of one of the country’s biggest conglomerates

Intel’s new CEO Lip-Bu Tan. The Malaysia-born CEO will also serve on Intel’s board of directors.

Intel’s incoming Malaysian-born CEO is the latest Fortune 500 semiconductor exec to hail from Asia

WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 03: U.S. President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) CEO C.C. Wei in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on March 3, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump announced that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, one of the largest manufacturers of semiconductor chips, plans to invest $100 billion in new manufacturing facilities in the United States. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

TSMC’s $100 billion promise to invest in the U.S. won’t shake up the chip supply chain: ‘Most of its capacity is still in Taiwan’

Alibaba chair Joe Tsai speaking at a CNBC conference in Singapore on March 12, 2025.

China’s way to drive economic growth is getting consumers to unleash $20 trillion of rainy-day savings, says Alibaba chair Joe Tsai

SHANGHAI, CHINA – FEBRUARY 21: A visitor takes a photo of the Deepseek booth at the 2025 Global Developer Conference on February 21, 2025 in Shanghai, China. The 2025 Global Developer Conference, scheduled from February 21 to February 23 in Shanghai, focuses on cutting-edge technologies, including large models, computing power and software platforms. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)

Chinese advances like DeepSeek have ‘narrowed’ AI gap with U.S., says CSIS think tank: ‘Unrealistic to expect a lead of more than a year or two’

A photo of Toyota’s bZ3X from April 2024. Toyota launched the model on March 6, 2025.

Toyota unveils an all-electric China SUV that’s priced to compete in the world’s most fierce car market

Piyush Gupta, chief executive officer of DBS Group Holdings Ltd., during a news conference in Singapore, on Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. DBS shares jumped after the lender reported earnings that met expectations and unveiled a investor payout plan. Photographer: Suhaimi Abdullah/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Outgoing DBS CEO Piyush Gupta gets a 57% pay bump, reversing a massive cut in 2023

WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 4: President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress in the Capitol building’s House chamber in Washington, D.C., on March 4, 2025. (Photo by Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump touts TSMC, natural gas, and Panama Canal deals to Congress in a premature victory lap

By Nicholas Gordon and Lionel Lim

British chip giant ARM Holdings CEO Rene Haas speaks during a ceremony for the launch of a collaboration between Malaysia and ARM Holdings in Kuala Lumpur on March 5, 2025. British chip manufacturer ARM Holdings will sign an agreement March 5 with Malaysia to help boost the country’s efforts to produce high-end semiconductors, the economy minister said. (Photo by Mohd RASFAN / AFP) (Photo by MOHD RASFAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Malaysia is buying Arm’s blueprints for $250 million to realize its ambitions to be a ‘non-aligned’ chip player

Forrest Li, chairman and group chief executive officer of Sea Ltd., poses for a photograph in Singapore on Wednesday, July 8, 2020. Demand for Sea’s mobile games and online-shopping platform has surged during the pandemic, and the company is bidding on a Singapore digital-banking license to accelerate its push into financial services. Photographer: Wei Leng Tay/Bloomberg via Getty Images

AI and logistics lift Sea Group to its second-ever annual profit—including e-commerce success in an unexpected market

SOROWAKO, INDONESIA – 2024/08/02: Bags of nickel ore ready to be shipped at a nickel factory, operated by PT Vale Indonesia in Sorowako, South Sulawesi. PT Vale Indonesia Tbk. (INCO) is aiming to produce 70,800 tons of Matte from Nickel in 2024 . (Photo by Hariandi Hafid/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Indonesia’s nickel strategy proved to be a ‘great success’—but overcapacity and tech shifts could challenge Jakarta’s ‘downstreaming’ hopes