Published: May 22nd, 2024,
Last updated: May 27th, 2025
Ben Lim, long-time China correspondent, died following a severe acute pancreatitis on Tuesday morning. He was 65 years. The journalist, whose full name was Benjamin Kang Lim, worked for Reuters for 27 years, including as bureau chief in Beijing and Taipei. He joined The Straits Times in 2019. One of his biggest scoops was the news of Deng Xiaoping’s imminent death in 1997, two days before Xinhua reported it.