Environment

No Easy Fix as Huge Spill Threatens Liuzhou's Water
South China Morning Post, January 31, 2012
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=b5efd32ca4f25310VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Human Rights Defenders

Another Chinese Dissident on Trial for Subversion
The Associated Press, January 31, 2012
http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120131/ap_on_re_as/as_china_human_rights

Media

China's State TV Making Huge Global Expansion
The Associated Press, January 31, 2012
http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120131/ap_on_re_as/as_china_tv_to_the_world

Protests and Petitions

江西5千人包圍警局 (Jiangxi: 5k Surround Police Station in Protest)
Ming Pao, January 30, 2012
http://inews.mingpao.com/htm/Inews/20120130/ca12055c.htm

Tibet

中国官媒称西方和达赖喇嘛歪曲藏区真相 (Official Media: West and Dalai Lama Distorting the Truth)
Radio France Internationale, January 30, 2012
http://www.chinese.rfi.fr/中国/20120130-中国官媒称西方和达赖喇嘛歪曲藏区真相

青海藏人抗议警拘六人 甘南路障查外地车辆 (Six Protesting Tibetans Detained in Qinghai)
Radio Free Asia, January 30, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/ql2-01302012095540.html

西藏官员促加强警力确保拉萨稳定 (Lhasa Officials Urge More Police to Maintain Stability)
British Broadcasting Corporation, January 31, 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/chinese_news/2012/01/120131_china_tibet_security.shtml

XUAR

Xinjiang to Recruit 8,000 Police Officers to Boost Security in Rural Areas
Xinhua News Agency, January 30, 2012
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-01/30/c_131382807.htm

Bilateral Ties

Falun Gong Says NY Parade Pressured to Ban Group
The Associated Press, January 29, 2012
http://www.njherald.com/story/16622759/falun-gong-says-ny-parade-pressured-to-ban-group

Human Rights

中国批驳人权观察年度报告 (China Refutes Human Rights Watch Annual Report)
British Broadcasting Corporation, January 29, 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/chinese_news/2012/01/120129_human_rights_china.shtml

Related news:
Human Rights Report Flawed by Omissions and Bias
China Daily, January 29, 2012
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-01/29/content_14498408.htm

Related information:
World Report 2012
Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/world-report-2012

Human Rights Defenders

陈光诚为兄奔丧遭限 外界呼吁早日自由 (Chen Guangcheng Prevented from Attending Brother's Funeral)
Radio Free Asia, January 29, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/chen-01292012143527.html

倪玉兰女儿代母领奖出境被阻 (Ni Yulan's Daughter Prevented from Leaving China to Accept Rights Award on Behalf of Mother)
Deutsche Welle, January 29, 2012
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15697657,00.html

Protests and Petitions

廣東電白百人怒砸村政府 (Dianbai County Villagers Attack Government Offices to Protest Dump Project Thought to Be a Crematorium)
Ming Pao, January 30, 2012
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/94/1/1/2562139/1.html

Rural Issues

Annual Rural-policy Ritual Goes Nowhere
South China Morning Post, January 28, 2012
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=1a43048c39f15310VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

逾億農民返城搶工 (100+mil Migrant Workers Rush Back to City after Spring Festival Holiday)
Ming Pao, January 29, 2012
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/94/1/1/2561322/1.html

Tibet

Chinese Crack Down to Curb Spread of Tibetan Unrest
The New York Times, January 28, 2012
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/world/asia/chinese-crack-down-to-curb-spread-of-tibetan-unrest.html

Dalai Lama and West 'Distorting' Tibetan Protests to Tarnish China
Reuters, January 30, 2012
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/30/dalai-lama-west-distorting-tibetan-protests-china

XUAR

Two More Uyghurs Get Life Sentences
Radio Free Asia, January 27, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/life-01272012201754.html

Bilateral Ties

Norway Could Shut China Out of Arctic Council after Diplomatic Snubs
The Guardian, January 25, 2012
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/25/norway-china-arctic-council

Disasters

黄晓敏调查地震捐助款被限制 孙文广给拆迁户拜年送温暖 (Sichuan: Huang Xiaomin Prevented from Looking into Quake Relief Allocation)
Radio Free Asia, January 26, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/fy1-01262012100342.html

Environment

Cadmium Pollution Flows Downstream in Tainted River
Xinhua News Agency, January 27, 2012
http://english.cri.cn/6909/2012/01/27/2021s678000.htm

Truth about Pollution Still Shrouded by Secrecy
South China Morning Post, January 27, 2012
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=bd9117d51ba15310VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Human Rights Defenders

Petitioners Thrown in 'Black Jails'
Radio Free Asia, January 26, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/thrown-01262012140553.html

Tibet

藏区抗议持续 中共增派军队入藏 (Troops Sent to Tibetan Region as Protests Continue)
Deutsche Welle, January 26, 2012
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15691647,00.html

Related information:
China Must Address Root Causes of Growing Tibetan Protests
中国当局必须消除不断蔓延的藏人抗议活动的根源
Human Rights in China, January 27, 2012
EN: http://www.hrichina.org/content/5787
CH: http://www.hrichina.org/cn/content/5788

XUAR

Exile Group Presses China on Uighur Deportees
Agence France-Presse, January 27, 2012
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gD5wyMaq1uOxNcN98YxvTb8BGKyA

Two Uighurs Deported from Cambodia to China Get Life
Reuters, January 27, 2012
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/27/us-china-uighurs-idUSTRE80Q0AW20120127

Hong Kong

National Education Subject to Be Delayed
South China Morning Post, January 26, 2012
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=3e60a70ea8515310VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Press Freedom at Growing Risk, Journalists Warn
South China Morning Post, January 22, 2012
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=0ab6eda0e3005310VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD