Economic Development

The End of the Great Migration - a Factory Town's Downward Slide
Marketplace, October 1, 2012
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/world/end-great-migration-factory-towns-downward-slide

Human Rights Defenders

Ai Weiwei: Shutdown of Wife's Company Is to 'Maintain Face'
The Wall Street Journal, October 2, 2012
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444138104578032144223051354.html

“十八大前多名沪维权人士被刑拘” (Shanghainese Rights Defenders Detained as 18th Party Congress Approaches)
British Broadcasting Corporation, October 3, 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/chinese_news/2012/10/121003_shanghai_defenders_detained.shtml

Related:
Shanghai Rights Defenders Detained in Advance of 18th Party Congress
十八大前多名上海维权人士被刑拘
Human Rights in China, October 2, 2012
EN: http://www.hrichina.org/content/6318
CH: http://www.hrichina.org/cn/content/6316

Labor

U.S. Misses Full Truth on China Factory Workers
CNN, October 1, 2012
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/30/opinion/chang-chinese-factory-workers/

中国环卫工人处境可悲：工资低，无保险，工作高危 (Sad Plight of China's Sanitation Workers: Low Wages, No Insurance, Perilous Work)
Radio Free Asia, October 2, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/nu-10022012155306.html

Law

人民日報談司法改革：勿片面「法律至上」 (People's Daily on Judicial Reform: Do Not Unilaterally "Place the Law before Everything Else")
Ming Pao, October 2, 2012
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/9/1/1/2786357/1.html

Related:
为了公正高效和权威
People's Daily, September 28, 2012
http://legal.people.com.cn/n/2012/0928/c42510-19142683.html
http://legal.people.com.cn/n/2012/1001/c42510-19161860.html

Macao

Thousands Take to Macau's Streets in Diverse Protest
South China Morning Post, October 2, 2012
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1051788/thousands-take-macaus-streets-diverse-protest

Related:
澳門十一遊行 抗議物價急升 (Macanese Protest Rising Prices in National Day Demonstration)
United Daily News, October 1, 2012
http://udn.com/NEWS/BREAKINGNEWS/BREAKINGNEWS4/7400977.shtml

Tibet

四川阿坝再有数名藏人被判刑 藏人行政中央纪念国际非暴力日 (Several Tibetans Sentenced in Ngawa, Sichuan)
Radio Free Asia, October 2, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/dz-10022012105932.html

Environment

环保组织呼吁增加“按日记罚”等重要环境制度 (Environmental Group Calls for Adding Significant Institutions such as Public Interest Litigation in Environmental Protection Law)
Legal Daily, September 28, 2012
http://news.sina.com.cn/green/news/roll/2012-09-28/150525275552.shtml

Hong Kong

Press Intimidation Alleged in HK as Apple Daily Photographer Faces Court
South China Morning Post, September 28, 2012
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1048857/press-intimidation-alleged-hk-apple-daily-photographer-faces-court

Human Rights Defenders

維權人士被勸離京 泄十八大開會日子 (Rights Activists Told to Leave Beijing, Hinting Days of 18th Party Congress)
Ming Pao, September 28, 2012
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/94/1/1/2783432/1.html

Police

Officers Trying Evil Eye to Get Rid of Vendors
Shanghai Daily, September 28, 2012
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/nsp/National/2012/09/28/Officers+trying+evil+eye+to+get+rid+of+vendors

Prisons

北京：家属、律师可预约会见在押的服刑罪犯 (Beijing: Family and Lawyers Can Arrange Meetings with Criminal Suspects in Detention)
Xinhua News Agency, September 28, 2012
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/index_article/content/2012-09/28/content_3878285.htm

Protests and Petitions

拆迁户抗议无安置遭警驱散 (Anhui: Police Disperse Protest by Evictees Who Had Not Been Relocated)
Radio Free Asia, September 27, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/protest-09272012093835.html

湖北村民與警衝突一死一傷 (1 Dead, 1 Injured in Clash between Hubei Villagers and Police)
Ming Pao, September 27, 2012
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/9/1/1/2782962/1.html

Society

Vanishing Languages Saved for Posterity
China Daily, September 28, 2012
http://english.sina.com/life/2012/0928/511395.html

Hong Kong

胡紅玉：國民教育課程指引失效 (Committee on Nat'l Education Chair Anna Hu: Official National Education Guidelines No Longer Effective)
NOW TV, September 27, 2012
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/2/1/1/2783187/1.html

Human Rights Defenders

China's Ai Weiwei Loses Tax Evasion Appeal
Al Jazeera, September 27, 2012
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/09/20129276220823628.html

Related:
浦志强：相信审理艾未未案件的法官会后悔 (Lawyer Pu Zhiqiang: I Believe the Judges Will Regret Trying the Case)
Radio France Internationale, September 27, 2012
http://www.chinese.rfi.fr/中国/20120927-浦志强：相信审理艾未未案件的法官会后悔

Internet

Chinese Internet Users to Overtake English Language Users by 2015
The Telegraph, September 26, 2012
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/broadband/9567934/Chinese-internet-users-to-overtake-English-language-users-by-2015.html

Law

Chinese Court Sentences Li Ang to Life in Prison for 2002 Murder of B.C. Student Amanda Zhao
The Province, September 26, 2012
http://www.theprovince.com/news/Chinese+court+sentences+life+prison+2002+murder+student+Amanda+Zhao/7305143/story.html

Related:
Family of Accused in Amanda Zhao Killing Says Canadian Trial Would Have Been More Just
The Globe and Mail, September 23, 2012
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/family-of-accused-in-amanda-zhao-killing-says-canadian-trial-would-be-more-just/article4562747/

Media

Director Reveals Mystery of China’s Film Censorship System on Weibo
Tea Leaf Nation, September 27, 2012
http://tealeafnation.com/2012/09/director-reveals-mystery-of-chinas-film-censorship-system-on-weibo/

Population

广州拟为部分家庭生二胎鬆绑 失独扶助标准提出 (Draft Guangzhou Measures Ease Restrictions on Second Child for Some Families)
Yangcheng Evening News, September 27, 2012
http://www.chinesetoday.com/zh/article/667450

Protests and Petitions

大规模游行示威是非常好的政治学习 (HK Papers: Large-scale Protests Are Excellent Study in Politics)
Radio France Internationale, September 27, 2012
http://www.chinese.rfi.fr/中国/20120927-大规模游行示威是非常好的政治学习