1. BBC News - Papua New Guinea defence chief 'replaced in mutiny' →

  2. China's number of Web users rises to 513 million - Yahoo! News →

  3. Diasporas: Mapping migration | The Economist →

    Wow, more Chinese people live outside China than French people live in France.

  4. Banyan: One dam thing after another | The Economist →

    Climate change and the impact on the Mekong River — critical to SEA.

  5. LinkedIn Unveils Dashboard for Groups Statistics →

    Metrics for LinkedIn Groups (there are now more than 1MM groups!).

  6. Use social media to retain customers - ZDNet Asia News →

  7. Pro-biz, green incentives give S'pore datacenter edge - Singapore - Special Reports - Insight →

  8. Singapore - Special Reports - Insight - ZDNet Asia →

  9. Tourists spend S$5 billion in Q2 -  Singapore News - XinMSN News →

    Indonesian spent more than Chinese or Indian tourists in Singapore in Q2 2011 (total tourism spend in the quarter was S$5billion!).

  10. At India-Bangladesh Border, Living in Both, and Neither - NYTimes.com →

    The amazingly complex state of nations in Asia.

  11. Households Pay a Price for China’s Growth - NYTimes.com →

    While there is serious spending being done by upper middle class Chinese, government banking regulations put pressure on lower middle class citizens to “hoard” their money as inflation concerns increase.

  12. Banyan: The Mongolian sandwich | The Economist →

  13. India to debut $45 Android tablet for education - ZDNet Asia News →

  14. Banyan: New light in Myanmar? | The Economist →

    Another unique opportunity for the Myanmar government to make true progress in terms of moving away from military control. These tipping points in the past have come and gone, with nothing changing. Let’s hope that a combination of local opposition engagement, pressure by its Asian neighbors, and the desire to have sanctions ended will make a more lasting change in the regime/government.

  15. Monitor: Drops to drink | The Economist →

    Singapore, wealthly and compact, can serve as a test-bed for many important technologies - in this case desalination technology.