Environment

Yunnan City Begins New 3-year Plan to Clean Polluted Lake
Want China Times, October 12, 2012
http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20121012000076&cid=1505

Hong Kong

兩示威者去年六四非法集結緩刑 (Two Activists Given Suspended Sentences after Unapproved Leading March after June Fourth Vigil)
Now News, October 12, 2012
http://news.now.com/home/local/player?newsId=48076

Human Rights

美国会报告：中国民众维权要求高涨 政府保障人权不力 (US Report: Rights Defense Actions by Chinese People Heightens, Gov't Protection of Rights Not Sufficient)
Radio Free Asia, October 11, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/yl-10112012160815.html

Related:
2012 Annual Report
Congressional-Executive Commission on China
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-112shrg76190/pdf/CHRG-112shrg76190.pdf

Human Rights Defenders

Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel Pick
Foreign Policy, October 11, 2012
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/10/11/liu_xiaobo_s_nobel_pick

Related:
莫言：期望尽快释放刘晓波 (Mo Yan: I Hope Liu Xiaobo Can Be Released as Soon as Possible)
Radio France Internationale, October 12, 2012
http://www.chinese.rfi.fr/node/118758

环保人士刘福堂被控非法出版：“盈利”300余元 (Environmental Activist Liu Futang Charged with Publishing Illegally)
Hainan Online, October 12, 2012
http://news.163.com/12/1012/10/8DJVOFHU0001124J.html

Related:
Chinese Environmental Activist Goes on Trial over Books
The Guardian, October 11, 2012
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/11/chinese-activist-trial-books

Law

Courts with Chinese Characteristics
Foreign Affairs, October 11, 2012
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/138178/jerome-alan-cohen/courts-with-chinese-characteristics

Politics

官媒高調撐政改 疑高層放風 (Leaks from the Highers-up Suspected as Official Media Talks Up Political Reform)
Ming Pao, October 12, 2012
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/9/1/1/2796608/1.html

Society

Nobel Renews Debate in China
The Hindu, October 12, 2012
http://www.chinese.rfi.fr/node/118758

XUAR

Uyghur Family Home Bulldozed
Radio Free Asia, October 11, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/bulldozed-10112012145624.html