Joyce Lim

3 weeks ago | straitstimes.com | Philip Wen |Lu Wei Hoong |Stania Puspawardhani |Joyce Lim

BANGKOK - Factory workers in Muar, known for its abundant high-quality rubberwood sourced from end-of-life-cycle rubber plantations, are working speedily to polish ready-to-assemble furniture pieces and arranging them into flat-pack boxes. The hive of activity in the coastal town in north-western Johor, Malaysia’s biggest furniture manufacturing hub, belies the confluence of pain points that are contributing to an undercurrent of foreboding and gloom.

3 weeks ago | thestar.com.my | Joyce Lim

SHENZHEN: Even as China and the US roll back tariffs and other trade salvos amid a 90-day truce, there is one powerful source of leverage that Beijing appears to be retaining: the control of its exports of critical minerals, including rare earths. China’s Commerce Ministry said on Monday (May 12), the same day that details of the US-China agreement were announced, that strengthening export controls of strategic mineral resources was crucial to national security.

3 weeks ago | straitstimes.com | Joyce Lim

SHENZHEN – Even as China and the United States roll back tariffs and other trade salvos amid a 90-day truce, there is one powerful source of leverage that Beijing appears to be retaining: the control of its exports of critical minerals, including rare earths. China’s commerce ministry said on May 12, the same day that details of the US-China agreement were announced, that strengthening export controls of strategic mineral resources was crucial to national security.

3 weeks ago | asiaone.com | Joyce Lim

ByJoyce LimSINGAPORE — While veteran Singaporean artist Koeh Sia Yong was away in Indonesia for nearly two months earlier in 2025, his bedroom drawers back home were emptied of more than $50,000 in valuables. The 87-year-old returned to his two-bedroom unit at The Interlace condo in Depot Road on March 15 to find his home had been broken into. "When I stepped into my apartment, I saw my master bedroom door, which I had locked, was open," Koeh told The Straits Times in Mandarin.

3 weeks ago | straitstimes.com | Joyce Lim

SINGAPORE – While veteran Singaporean artist Koeh Sia Yong was away in Indonesia for nearly two months earlier in 2025, his bedroom drawers back home were emptied of more than $50,000 in valuables. The 87-year-old returned to his two-bedroom unit at The Interlace condo in Depot Road on March 15 to find his home had been broken into. “When I stepped into my apartment, I saw my master bedroom door, which I had locked, was open,” Mr Koeh told The Straits Times in Mandarin.