Asia desk feature writer
Soraya Halim covers the founders, scenes, and ecosystems of Asia for Frontier Bylines. Her dispatches range from Singapore to Seoul to Bangalore to Tokyo, and she tends to write the kind of feature that begins with a long scene in a specific room and slowly widens out into something structural about the region. She speaks four languages and writes in two of them.
Before joining the magazine, Halim worked as a stringer for several international publications and as a producer on a long-running radio documentary series about labor and migration in Southeast Asia. That documentary background shapes her writing. She is unusually patient with pacing, and her profiles tend to give the subject room to talk before the writer interprets. She is wary of the foreign-correspondent posture and refuses to take the position of the visiting expert.
Halim is based out of Singapore and Kuala Lumpur in equal measure. She is the writer on the masthead most likely to argue, in editorial meetings, that the most important AI story of the next decade will not be written from the United States or Europe. She is patient about that argument. She has been making it, in print, since long before most of the field was paying attention.
Pieces published: 2 Joined: 2025 Pitch: editorial@frontierbylines.com Feed: RSS Elsewhere: sorayahalim.substack.com
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Before the protein folding, before the Nobel, before DeepMind itself, there was a decade of game design that almost no one in the AI field has actually sat with. A long look at the years that produced the operator who would, much later, become the operator.
September 18, 2025
Profile
She is, by some interesting margin, the least-quoted senior executive at the most-cited research lab of the current cycle. A close look at the company's president, drawn from the small set of public talks and interviews she has actually given, and from the visible architectural decisions inside the company she helps run.
December 4, 2025