Wednesday, January 02, 2013

Environment

北京等74城市空气质量已可查 部分官网无法打开 (New Air Quality Standards for Beijing and 73 Other Cities Commence, Some Official Monitoring Pages Inaccessible)
The Beijing News, January 02, 2013
http://news.163.com/13/0102/02/8K6A044F00014AED.html

Hong Kong

香港“倒梁”游行,抗议北京之手 (Hong Kongers March Calling for Chief Executive to Resign and Protesting Beijing's Involvement in HK)
Deutsche Welle, January 01, 2013
http://www.dw.de/香港倒梁游行抗议北京之手/a-16490803

愛港力量遊行本台採訪期間受襲 (Reporter with NOW TV Attacked while Covering Pro-establishment March)
NOW TV, December 30, 2012
http://news.now.com/home/local/player?newsId=55298

Related:
Hong Kong Pro-Government March Gets Caught for Hiring Protesters
BadCanto, January 02, 2013
http://badcanto.wordpress.com/2013/01/02/hong-kong-pro-government-march-gets-caught-for-hiring-protesters/

Human Rights Defenders

Police Break Up New Year Dinner
Radio Free Asia, January 01, 2013
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/dinner-01012013174422.html

Activists Visit Liu Xia
Radio Free Asia, January 01, 2013
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/nobel-01012013110843.html

For the activist’s video from the visit, see:
2012年12月28日胡佳、徐友渔等网友架走保安,成功探访刘霞
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJumioueaAo

胡佳:不能让对刘霞的非法拘禁再继续下去 (Hu Jia: This Illegal Detention of Liu Xia Cannot Be Allowed to Continue)
Radio France Internationale, January 01, 2013
http://www.chinese.rfi.fr/中国/20130101-胡佳:不能让对刘霞的非法拘禁再继续下去

For a map and photos of Liu Xia's residential compound, see:
「行動施壓 還劉霞自由」 (Operation: Restore Liu Xia's Freedom)
Ming Pao, January 02, 2013
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/20130102/-9-2861766/1.html

Media

China Forces New York Times Reporter Chris Buckley to Leave Country
The Guardian, December 31, 2012
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/31/china-new-york-times-journalist

Society

The Disappeared
Foreign Policy, January 02, 2013
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/01/02/the_disappeared