TMTPOST—Renowned journalist Benjamin Kang Lim died of severe acute pancreatitis on Tuesday morning. Born in 1958, Lim joined the Straits Times in April 2019 after 27 years at Reuters, where he served as Taipei Bureau Chief and Beijing Bureau Chief. During his four-decade journalism career, as a prominent journalist in reporting on China, Lim has published a large number of groundbreaking reports on China, won 13 international journalism awards, and interviewed many Asian leaders. Lim joined Reuters in 1991, serving as Taipei bureau chief from 2000 to 2002 and Beijing bureau chief from 2008 to 2010. Having broken some of the biggest news stories out of China, Lim won the Reuters Scoop of the Year award in 2007 for correctly predicting the new line-up of the Chinese Communist Party’s Politburo Standing Committee three weeks before the official announcement. Lim was also named Reuters Reporter of the Year in 2011, and shared Reuters Reporting Team of the Year with the Hong Kong bureau in 2014. Lim’s latest book,  “Taking China’s Pulse”, was released in January 2016.