China’s ‘Left-behind Children’
The Globe and Mail, January 16, 2013
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/the-china-diaries/chinas-left-behind-children/article7451601/
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Children
Environment
云南1/4的物种可能因原生林破坏而灭绝 (A Quarter of Yunnan's Species to Go Extinct "This Century")
China Dialogue, January 16, 2013
http://www.chinadialogue.net/blog/5613-A-quarter-of-Yunnan-s-species-to-go-extinct-this-century-/ch
Human Rights Defenders
Detained Hunan Dissident Zhu Chengzhi Allowed to See Wife
South China Morning Post, January 17, 2013
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1129710/detained-hunan-dissident-zhu-chengzhi-allowed-see-wife
Labor
Workers' Strike Prompts Call for Better Protection
China Daily, January 16, 2013
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2013-01/16/content_16122733.htm
Law
學者倡撤雙規 公開審薄案 (Scholars Call for Repeal of Shuanggui System and a Public Trial for Bo Xilai in Annual Report on Judicial Reform)
Ming Pao, January 17, 2013
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/20130117/-162-2873979/1.html
For more on shuanggui, see:
中国法律的类型
The Varieties of Law in China
China Rights Forum, 2011, no. 1-2
CH: http://www.hrichina.org/cn/crf/article/5433
EN: http://www.hrichina.org/crf/article/5422
Poverty
人民日报记者探访京城流浪者:有一家三口流浪20年 (People's Daily Investigates Beijing's Homeless: One Family of Three Has Been Homeless for 20 Years)
People's Daily (Overseas Edition), January 17, 2013
http://legal.people.com.cn/n/2013/0117/c42510-20231227.html
Protests and Petitions
官吞徵地款 江門千人騷亂 (Jiangmen, Guangdong: Many Injured in Clash between 1K Villagers and Police over Land Requisition)
Oriental Daily, January 17, 2013
http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20130117/00178_001.html
Tibet
Fifteen Held over Burnings
Radio Free Asia, January 16, 2013
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/held-01162013163844.html