Lim Yan Liang

Assistant News Editor

Yan Liang joined The Straits Times in 2011, and was a correspondent at the Political Desk before moving to the China bureau in February 2017. As political correspondent, he covered general and by-elections in Singapore and wrote features on topics such as crime, terrorism, technology and diplomacy. An honours graduate in communications, he also cut his teeth reporting on regional disasters, such as the MH17 crash and the 2015 Nepal earthquake.