Environment

Environmental Survey Launched Nationwide
China Daily, October 17, 2012
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-10/17/content_15822971.htm

Food Security

专家称中国30多个省市只有几个粮食“富余” (Experts: 30+ Provinces/Cities in China Have Only a Bit of Grain in Surplus)
Legal Daily, October 17, 2012
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/index_article/content/2012-10/17/content_3908809.htm

Human Rights Defenders

NGOs, Activists Call for Release of Detained Eco-warrior Liu Futang
South China Morning Post, October 17, 2012
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1062729/ngos-activists-call-release-detained-eco-warrior-liu-futang

Read the open letter calling for the release of Liu Futang online at:
呼吁海南省无罪释放环保人士刘福堂 (Calling for Hainan to Release Environmental Activist Liu Futang sans Guilt)
October 16, 2012
http://liuhongqiao.blog.caixin.com/archives/47550

廖亦武德国获奖，中国不高兴 (China Not Pleased with Liao Yiwu's German Peace Prize Win)
Deutsche Welle, October 16, 2012
http://www.dw.de/廖亦武德国获奖中国不高兴/a-16309167

Related:
海外异见者需有走出仇恨的精神力量
Exiled Dissidents Should Leave Hatred Behind
Global Times, October 16, 2012
CH: http://opinion.huanqiu.com/opinion_world/2012-10/3190220.html
EN: http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/738704.shtml

Labor

Interns as Young as 14 Found at Foxconn Plant
Shanghai Daily, October 16, 2012
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/nsp/National/2012/10/17/Interns+as+young+as+14+found+at+Foxconn+plant

Politics

Chinese Elite Politics: It's Still a Man's World
The Associated Press, October 17, 2012
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jrlcZMk6ggdxS6DYFnRI8_RqDv_g

Protests and Petitions

浙江访民沈志华被送精神病院官员称否则须坐牢 (Zhejiang Petitioner Shen Zhihua Institutionalized; Official: She Would Be behind Bars Otherwise)
Radio Free Asia, October 16, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/ql2-10162012105813.html