Lim Yong

Senior Executive Infographics Journalist

Lim Yong joined The Straits Times in 2000 – the year Y2K was expected to confound computer systems infrastructures – after graduating with a mechanical engineering degree from Nanyang Technological University. Infographics was alien and new to him then, but now he strives to present graphics to readers in informative, interesting and intelligible ways. Outside work, he likes nature photography.

Latest articles

60 years, 60 items: A National Day game challenge

A look inside the new Singapore Nuclear Research and Safety Institute at NUS

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The newly launched Singapore Nuclear Research and Safety Institute (SNRSI) building on July 11, 2025. 

ST PHOTO: AZMI ATHNI

A legacy sails again: The allure of a traditional Fujian-style wooden ship

artship - Funing 

Asia teetering on the brink as the world marks Earth Day

An almost dried up canal amid a long heatwave in southern Vietnam's Ca Mau province on Feb 24.

Paradise Beckons: Take a flight of discovery through Bird Paradise’s aviaries

An Australian ‘lightbulb’ that illuminates science secrets 

The Australian Synchrotron