Joyce ZK Lim

Business Correspondent

Joyce is a business correspondent covering work and workplaces. She was previously The Straits’ Times China correspondent based in Shenzhen.

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‘Why would I want to harm myself?’: Some delivery riders look to cut hours as haze worsens

Delivery riders working in the Clementi area told ST that their eyes were irritated and throats sore after plying the roads for hours in the haze.

MOM weighs ‘action’ against firms that can afford retrenchment benefits but refuse to pay: Jasmin Lau

Of the 12% of employers that did not pay retrenchment benefits to their employees, only about a fifth said they had financial difficulties, said Acting Manpower Minister Jasmin Lau.

Be Monkey King? Young Chinese find work in theme parks’ role-playing boom

Yao Fancheng plays ancient Chinese poet Su Shi at the China Folk Culture Village in Shenzhen. He makes sure to draw from verses familiar to people of different generations to “ensure that everybody can participate”.

Rumbling trucks, busy border crossing: How China feeds Vietnam’s factory boom

/This aerial photo taken on Sept 9, 2023 shows a view of the port of the Friendship Pass in Pingxiang, South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.

Durian trade is a high-stakes hustle in Chinese border town

jycolour - Thai durians sold on the street in Pingxiang.

Credit: ST PHOTO: JOYCE ZK LIM

Chinese malls hold quirky contests to draw shoppers as footfall slows

People participate in a garlic peeling contest at the Longgang Wanda Plaza in Shenzhen on Aug 8.

Chinese President Xi Jinping urges equitable development at Shanghai AI forum

Visitors examine Huawei’s Atlas 950 SuperPod at the World AI Conference in Shanghai on July 17.

As AI gets more human-like, China grapples with the cost of virtual intimacy

A woman touching a U1 humanoid robot’s hand during its launch in Shenzhen, China, on June 30.

I hired a humanoid robot to help clean my home. An auntie did most of the chores

For now, the 1.6m-tall robot fitted on a wheeled base with two mechanical arms would only perform simple tasks and operate in the living area.

China’s tech giants dangle annual pay packages from $200k to woo S’pore-trained AI grads

A pop-up career fair by Chinese online travel giant Trip.com on the NTU campus in Boon Lay on April 16, where roles for AI engineers and data analysts were highlighted.

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