Economic Development

The End of the Great Migration - a Factory Town's Downward Slide
Marketplace, October 1, 2012
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/world/end-great-migration-factory-towns-downward-slide

Human Rights Defenders

Ai Weiwei: Shutdown of Wife's Company Is to 'Maintain Face'
The Wall Street Journal, October 2, 2012
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444138104578032144223051354.html

“十八大前多名沪维权人士被刑拘” (Shanghainese Rights Defenders Detained as 18th Party Congress Approaches)
British Broadcasting Corporation, October 3, 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/chinese_news/2012/10/121003_shanghai_defenders_detained.shtml

Related:
Shanghai Rights Defenders Detained in Advance of 18th Party Congress
十八大前多名上海维权人士被刑拘
Human Rights in China, October 2, 2012
EN: http://www.hrichina.org/content/6318
CH: http://www.hrichina.org/cn/content/6316

Labor

U.S. Misses Full Truth on China Factory Workers
CNN, October 1, 2012
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/30/opinion/chang-chinese-factory-workers/

中国环卫工人处境可悲：工资低，无保险，工作高危 (Sad Plight of China's Sanitation Workers: Low Wages, No Insurance, Perilous Work)
Radio Free Asia, October 2, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/nu-10022012155306.html

Law

人民日報談司法改革：勿片面「法律至上」 (People's Daily on Judicial Reform: Do Not Unilaterally "Place the Law before Everything Else")
Ming Pao, October 2, 2012
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/9/1/1/2786357/1.html

Related:
为了公正高效和权威
People's Daily, September 28, 2012
http://legal.people.com.cn/n/2012/0928/c42510-19142683.html
http://legal.people.com.cn/n/2012/1001/c42510-19161860.html

Macao

Thousands Take to Macau's Streets in Diverse Protest
South China Morning Post, October 2, 2012
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1051788/thousands-take-macaus-streets-diverse-protest

Related:
澳門十一遊行 抗議物價急升 (Macanese Protest Rising Prices in National Day Demonstration)
United Daily News, October 1, 2012
http://udn.com/NEWS/BREAKINGNEWS/BREAKINGNEWS4/7400977.shtml

Tibet

四川阿坝再有数名藏人被判刑 藏人行政中央纪念国际非暴力日 (Several Tibetans Sentenced in Ngawa, Sichuan)
Radio Free Asia, October 2, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/dz-10022012105932.html