Environment

环保部：环保法修正案草案存在四大问题 (Ministry of Environmental Protection: 4 Major Issues in Draft Environmental Protection Law Revisions)
Legal Daily, November 1, 2012
http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2012-11-01/103825487296.shtml

Human Rights Defenders

Blind Dissident Chen Guangcheng's Brother Loses Court Case
Reuters, November 2, 2012
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/02/blind-dissident-chen-guangcheng-brother

曹海波网上宣扬民主被判监八年 (Democracy Advocate Cao Haibo Sentenced 8 Years for Subversion)
British Broadcasting Corporation, November 2, 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/chinese_news/2012/11/121102_china_caohaibo.shtml

Related:
张起刑满获释 曹海波案不公开审理
Zhang Qi Released after Four Years; Cao Haibo Tried in Closed-Door Hearing
Human Rights in China, May 23, 2012
CH: http://www.hrichina.org/cn/content/6067
EN: http://www.hrichina.org/content/6066

Law

全国铁路法院全部移交地方 75%人员身份已过渡 (Jurisdiction of Railway Courts Nation-wide Transferred to Local Judicial System)
Xinhua News Agency, October 31, 2012
http://finance.ifeng.com/roll/20121031/7233151.shtml

Protests and Petitions

汕尾数百村民抗议官员贪腐 (Shanwei, Guangdong: Hundreds of Villagers March against Official Corruption)
Radio Free Asia, November 1, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/protest-11012012120035.html

Public Health

China Begins Phasing Out Prisoner Organs Next Year
The Associated Press, November 1, 2012
http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2019583214_apaschinaprisonerorgans.html

Related:
New Era for Organ Donation and Transplant in China
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, November 2012
http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/90/11/12-031112/en/index.html

Society

China Struggles for Solution to Growing NIMBY Movement
Reuters, November 1, 2012
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/01/us-china-environment-idUSBRE8A01L020121101

Three Gorges

Chinese Affected by Three Gorges Dam
British Broadcasting Corporation, November 2, 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-20176498