Monday, November 26, 2012

Environment

冬季大气重污染城市兰州将公布PM2.5指数 (Lanzhou, Gansu, amongst China's Most Polluted Cities, to Publish Air Quality Data)
Xinhua News Agency, November 25, 2012
http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2012-11-25/112325657668.shtml

Death Penalty

Criminal Rules Improve Death Sentence Review
Xinhua News Agency, November 24, 2012
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-11/24/content_15955800.htm

Human Rights Defenders

Yunnan Woman Escapes Detention for Stopping Wen Jiabao
Wang China Times, November 24, 2012
http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20121124000101&cid=1101

吕耿松被带走抄家 多人声援秦永敏被查 (Lü Gengsong Detained, Home Searched)
Radio Free Asia, November 23, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/fy-11232012114106.html

Related:
吕耿松刑满获释 拒签保证书
Writer Lü Gengsong Released from Prison; Refuses Conditions of Deprivation of Political Rights
Human Rights in China, August 23, 2011
CH: http://www.hrichina.org/cn/content/5558
EN: http://www.hrichina.org/content/5557

Public Health

广东拟爱滋病人纳入低保 (Guangdong Plans to Include Qualifying HIV Patients in Welfare Program)
Sinchew Daily, November 25, 2012
http://dailynews.sina.com/gb/news/int/sinchewdaily/20121125/19063991509.html

Rural Issues

Rural-school Closure Policy Put on Hold
China Daily, November 23, 2012
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-11/23/content_15954413.htm

Tibet

甘肃黄南州再有藏人自焚身亡 (Gansu: Another Tibetan Self-immolation)
British Broadcasting Corporation, November 24, 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/chinese_news/2012/11/121124_china_tibet.shtml

Related:
Threat to Cut Aid over Burnings
Radio Free Asia, November 22, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/aid-11222012174527.html

西藏自焚者亲属受当局打压 (Relatives of Self-immolations Suppressed by Authorities)
Deutsche Welle, November 23, 2012
http://www.dw.de/西藏自焚者亲属受当局打压/a-16402648