Environment

北京灰霾驗出大量毒素 (Large Amount of Toxins Found in Beijing Smog)
Sing Tao Daily, February 18, 2013
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/20130218/-9-2897684/1.html

Related:
Beijing Smog Contains Toxic Organic Compounds: Research
Global Times, February 17, 2013
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/761942.shtml

Gender

A Beginning for China’s Battered Women
China File, February 11, 2013
http://www.chinafile.com/beginning-china-battered-women

Activists Lament Workplace Discrimination against Women in China
South China Morning Post, February 18, 2013
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1152662/activists-lament-workplace-discrimination-against-women

Hong Kong

Law Expert Plans a Blockade for Vote
South China Morning Post, February 16, 2013
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1151206/law-expert-plans-blockade-vote

Related:
公民抗命的最大殺傷力武器 (The Most Lethal Weapon of Civil Disobedience)
Hong Kong Economic Journal, January 16, 2013
http://hkreporter.loved.hk/talks/thread-1776343-1-1.html

Labor

中国承诺7年内落实带薪休假 (China Promises Paid Leave within the Next Seven Years)
British Broadcasting Corporation, February, 18, 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/2013/02/130218_china_paidleaves.shtml

Related:
国民旅游休闲纲要（2013—2020年） (Outline on National Tourism and Recreation [2013-2020])
General Office of the State Council, February 2, 2013
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2013-02/18/c_124357463.htm

Media

保护记者委员会：中国记者处境糟糕 (CPJ Report: Situation is Terrible for Chinese Journalists)
Radio Free Asia, February 15, 2013
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/meiti/xql-02152013162123.html

Related:
Attacks on the Press in 2012: China
https://www.cpj.org/2013/02/attacks-on-the-press-in-2012-china.php

Society

社會信任度新低 七成不信陌生人 (CASS Report: Low Level of Social Trust, with 70% Saying They Do Not Trust Strangers)
Ming Pao, February 18, 2013
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/20130218/-9-2897599/1.html

Related:
Chinese Distrust Strangers, Lack Shared Values
People's Daily, February 18, 2013
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90882/8132101.html

Tibet

甘肃夏河县又发生藏人自焚抗议事件 四川理塘一藏人被捕 (Self-immolation in Gansu and Detention in Sichuan)
Radio Free Asia, February 17, 2013
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/shaoshuminzu/dz-02172013144034.html