Corruption

China Prepares New Plan to Fight Graft That Threatens Its Image
Bloomberg News, August 22, 2012
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-08-22/china-prepares-new-plan-to-fight-graft-that-threatens-its-image

Labor

Hepatitis B Carrier Wins Discrimination Case
China Daily, August 22, 2012
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-08/21/content_15694439.htm

Rural Issues

我国基尼系数逼近警戒线 (Income up for Famers in 2011, But Rural China Wealth Gap Toes the Gini Coefficient Warning Level)
The Beijing News, August 22, 2012
http://focus.news.163.com/12/0822/10/89GMLBC900011SM9.html

Population

北京等6市将为外地户籍人员办出入境证件 (Six Cities to Issue Passports to Migrant Workers and Other Non-Residents Starting September)
Economic Observer, August 22, 2012
http://www.eeo.com.cn/2012/0822/232314.shtml

Protests and Petitions

“永州上访妈妈被劳教事件”再调查 (A New Investigation into Case of Mother Sent to Reeducation for Petitioning for Justice in Daughter's Rape Case)
China Woman, August 22, 2012
http://acwf.people.com.cn/n/2012/0822/c99060-18805886.html

Public Health

Children Suffer Lead Poisoning from Power Plant
Sina, August 22, 2012
http://english.sina.com/china/2012/0822/498804.html

Tibet

四川阿坝卡西寺一僧人获刑七年 阿坝红原知名歌手被拘捕 (Ngawa, Sichuan: Monk Sentenced to 7 Years, Singer Detained)
Radio Free Asia, August 21, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/ab-08212012112941.html

Civil Society

NGOs Get Boost from Shenzhen Register Reforms
China Daily, August 21, 2012
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-08/21/content_15690995.htm

Related:
探路民间社会组织“去行政化” (Shenzhen NGOs Going Official)
Southern Daily, August 21, 2012
http://www.21cbh.com/2012/nfrb_821/289657.html

Environment

Shanghai 'Most Vulnerable to Flood Risk'
British Broadcasting Corporation, August 21, 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19318973

Media

Foreign Journalists 'Intimidated' in China: Press Groups
Agence France-Presse, August 21, 2012
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/308673/foreign-journalists-intimidated-in-china-press-groups

Police

湖南邵阳聘千人替城管执法 罚款可提成80% (Shaoyang, Hunan: 1K People Hired to Enforce the Law in Place of Urban Management)
Xiaoxiang Morning Post, August 21, 2012
http://gcontent.oeeee.com/d/ba/dba132f6ab6a3e3d/Blog/a20/a18c7d.html

Poverty

Province in Ambitious Project to End Poverty
Shanghai Daily, August 21, 2012
http://english.eastday.com/e/120821/u1a6799804.html

Related:
Foreign Correspondents' Clubs in China Jointly Express Extreme Concern over Abuse of Journalists
August 21, 2012
http://fcchk.org/article/foreign-correspondents-clubs-china-jointly-express-extreme-concern-over-abuse-journalists

Protests and Petitions

摩托罗拉中国被裁员工将集体维权
Motorola Employees Protest against Layoffs
Caixin, August 19, 2012
CH: http://companies.caixin.com/2012-08-19/100425744.html
EN: http://english.caixin.com/2012-08-20/100426272.html

Society

北京去年暂住人口减少60万 历史现首降 (Beijing Non-permanent Residents Down by 600K in 2011)
21st Century Business Herald, August 21, 2012
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/9/1/1/2750492/1.html

Taiwan

Taiwan Struggles to Save Indigenous Languages
Voice of America, August 20, 2012
http://www.voanews.com/content/taiwan_struggles_to_save_indigenious_languages/1491428.html

Hong Kong

Evening Paper Relaunch 'to Back Beijing Loyalists'
South China Morning Post, August 20, 2012
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=0edba81032f39310VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Law

人大常委会将首次审议环境保护法修正案草案等 (NPC Standing Committee to Deliberate on Draft Environmental Protection Law and Others at Upcoming Meeting)
Legal Daily, August 20, 2012
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/index_article/content/2012-08/20/content_3780645.htm

Media

北京四大報 高層大風吹 (Wind of Changes Blows Down from High upon the Fourth Major Beijing Papers)
United Daily News, August 19, 2012
http://udn.com/NEWS/MAINLAND/MAI1/7305019.shtml

Related:
Publisher Demoted over Editorial Tone
South China Morning Post, August 20, 2012
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=5e64b8ff73f39310VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

擬播艾未未片 京影展遭打壓 封場斷電 十八大前嚴控文藝活動 (Pressure on Cultural Activities before 18th Party Congress as Power Cut at Beijing Independent Film Fest, Stopping Screening of Ai Weiwei Documentary and Others)
Ming Pao, August 20, 2012
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/94/1/1/2749216/1.html

Related:
Power Cut Halts
Global Times, August 20, 2012
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/727851.shtml

浙江湖州一镇政府官员阻挠采访 记者被推进水塘 (Zhejiang Town Official Pushes Journalist into Reservoir while Impeding Reporting)
The Beijing News, August 19, 2012
http://news.ifeng.com/mainland/detail_2012_08/19/16913566_0.shtml

Protests and Petitions

Chinese Government Quietly Supports Anti-Japanese Demonstrations
Want China Times, August 20, 2012
http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20120820000046

为何中国上访者对中央政府的信任程度稳定？
Radio France Internationale, August 19, 2012
http://www.chinese.rfi.fr/中国/20120819-为何中国上访者对中央政府的信任程度稳定？  

State Security

警察也上访，变成 “维稳对象” (Even Police Become Target of Stability Maintenance Policy When They Petition)
Deutsche Welle, August 17, 2012
http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,16175186,00.html