Environment

Rural China’s Rubbish Revolution: Villagers Band against Corruption
The Globe and Mail, December 5, 2012
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/rural-chinas-rubbish-revolution-villagers-band-against-corruption/article6016491/

Human Rights Defenders

China Dismisses Nobel Demands for Liu's Release
Agence France-Presse, December 5, 2012
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h88GqZPzzj0pOVT_8aNFaMqnwf7w

Related:
丁子霖：释放刘晓波是习李新政的最佳切入点 (Tiananmen Mothers' Spokesperson Ding Zilin: Releasing Liu Xiaobo Would Be the Best Starting Point for the New Xi-Li Administration)
Radio France Internationale, December 5, 2012
http://www.chinese.rfi.fr/中国/20121205-丁子霖：释放刘晓波是习李新政的最佳切入点

哈达妻儿与外界通信再被切断 东莞家庭教会欲购房遭追查 (Hada's Wife Incommunicado, Dongguan House Church Comes under Investigation for Wanting to Purchase Space)
Radio Free Asia, December 5, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/ql2-12052012094101.html

学者联署致信新当权者 吁放政治犯推动政改 (Scholars Issue Appeal Calling for the Release of Political Prisoners and Political Reforms)
Radio Free Asia, December 5, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/sy1-12052012094102.html

因书获罪 “环保卫士”刘福堂被判缓刑 (Hainan Environmental Activist Liu Futang Given Fine and Suspended Sentence for Writing a Books)
Southern Metropolis Daily, December 6, 2012
http://ndnews.oeeee.com/html/201212/06/7058.html

Related:
“环保斗士”刘福堂遭荒唐指控
Accused Chinese Environmentalist Liu Futang “Tired and Unhappy”
China Dialogue, October 31, 2012
CH: http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/ch/5279-Accused-Chinese-environmentalist-Liu-Futang-tired-and-unhappy-
EN: http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/5279-Accused-Chinese-environmentalist-Liu-Futang-tired-and-unhappy-

Labor

7名凉山小学女生被诱至东莞务工 将被接回返校上学 (7 Primary School Students Lured to Work in Dongguan Toy Factory, Will Be Found and Returned to School)
Southern Metropolis Daily, December 6, 2012
http://ndgd.oeeee.com/html/201212/06/7098.html

Protests and Petitions

80-yr-old Veteran Sent for Reeducation over Appeals
Sina, December 6, 2012
http://english.sina.com/china/2012/1205/534592.html

How a Chinese Prisoner Release Reveals Business as Usual at 'Black Jail'
The Christian Science Monitor, December 5, 2012
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2012/1205/Exclusive-How-a-Chinese-prisoner-release-reveals-business-as-usual-at-black-jail

Tibet

China to Press Murder Charges for Inciting Tibet Immolations
Agence France-Presse, December 6, 2012
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/world/15565310/china-to-press-murder-charges-for-inciting-tibet-immolations/

Related:
煽动自焚者必将受到法律严惩 (Those Inciting Self-immolations Shall Inevitably Be Legally Punished)
Gannan Daily, December 3, 2012
http://gn.gansudaily.com.cn/system/2012/12/03/013508017.shtml

Unofficial translation by Dui Hui available at:
http://www.duihuahrjournal.org/2012/12/china-outlines-criminal-punishments-for.html