Education

Debate over Gaokao Policy Heats Up
China Daily, December 7, 2012
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-12/07/content_15993891.htm

Environment

China to Flatten 700 Mountains for New Metropolis in the Desert
The Guardian, December 6, 2012
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/06/china-flatten-mountain-lanzhou-new-area

Human Rights Defenders

AP Exclusive: Detained China Nobel Wife Speaks Out
The Associated Press, December 6, 2012
http://news.yahoo.com/ap-exclusive-detained-china-nobel-wife-speaks-082444390.html

Video of the interview is available at:
劉霞指軟禁待遇荒謬 (Liu Xia: House Arrest Treatment Is Absurd)
iCable, December 6, 2012
http://cablenews.i-cable.com/webapps/news_video/index.php?news_id=397111

Related:
劉霞北京寓所外保安明顯加強 (Guard Increases outside Liu Xia's Home)
RTHK, December 7, 2012
http://rthk.hk/rthk/news/expressnews/20121207/news_20121207_55_887881.htm

Media

Censorship Is a Must, Says China's Nobel Winner
The Associated Press, December 7, 2012
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/07/mo-yan-censorship-nobel

Related:
瑞典被問劉曉波 莫言﹕已說過不重複 (Mo, on Liu Xiaobo: I've Already Spoken and Won't Repeat Myself)
Ming Pao, December 7, 2012
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/20121207/-2-2841956/1.html

Migrant Workers

深度调查：留守儿童正成新一代的流浪儿 (In-depth Report: Left-behind Children Becoming a New Generation of Urchins)
Southern Weekend, December 6, 2012
http://ndnews.oeeee.com/html/201212/06/7142.html

Population

Lawyers Seek End to Forced Contraception
Global Times, December 7, 2012
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90882/8050001.html

Tibet

青海班玛自焚事件后两藏人被捕 藏人行政中央宣布一系列国际活动 (Banma, Qinghai: Two Arrested Following Self-immolation)
Radio Free Asia, December 6, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/dz-12062012094414.html

Environment

Rural China’s Rubbish Revolution: Villagers Band against Corruption
The Globe and Mail, December 5, 2012
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/rural-chinas-rubbish-revolution-villagers-band-against-corruption/article6016491/

Human Rights Defenders

China Dismisses Nobel Demands for Liu's Release
Agence France-Presse, December 5, 2012
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h88GqZPzzj0pOVT_8aNFaMqnwf7w

Related:
丁子霖：释放刘晓波是习李新政的最佳切入点 (Tiananmen Mothers' Spokesperson Ding Zilin: Releasing Liu Xiaobo Would Be the Best Starting Point for the New Xi-Li Administration)
Radio France Internationale, December 5, 2012
http://www.chinese.rfi.fr/中国/20121205-丁子霖：释放刘晓波是习李新政的最佳切入点

哈达妻儿与外界通信再被切断 东莞家庭教会欲购房遭追查 (Hada's Wife Incommunicado, Dongguan House Church Comes under Investigation for Wanting to Purchase Space)
Radio Free Asia, December 5, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/ql2-12052012094101.html

学者联署致信新当权者 吁放政治犯推动政改 (Scholars Issue Appeal Calling for the Release of Political Prisoners and Political Reforms)
Radio Free Asia, December 5, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/sy1-12052012094102.html

因书获罪 “环保卫士”刘福堂被判缓刑 (Hainan Environmental Activist Liu Futang Given Fine and Suspended Sentence for Writing a Books)
Southern Metropolis Daily, December 6, 2012
http://ndnews.oeeee.com/html/201212/06/7058.html

Related:
“环保斗士”刘福堂遭荒唐指控
Accused Chinese Environmentalist Liu Futang “Tired and Unhappy”
China Dialogue, October 31, 2012
CH: http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/ch/5279-Accused-Chinese-environmentalist-Liu-Futang-tired-and-unhappy-
EN: http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/5279-Accused-Chinese-environmentalist-Liu-Futang-tired-and-unhappy-

Labor

7名凉山小学女生被诱至东莞务工 将被接回返校上学 (7 Primary School Students Lured to Work in Dongguan Toy Factory, Will Be Found and Returned to School)
Southern Metropolis Daily, December 6, 2012
http://ndgd.oeeee.com/html/201212/06/7098.html

Protests and Petitions

80-yr-old Veteran Sent for Reeducation over Appeals
Sina, December 6, 2012
http://english.sina.com/china/2012/1205/534592.html

How a Chinese Prisoner Release Reveals Business as Usual at 'Black Jail'
The Christian Science Monitor, December 5, 2012
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2012/1205/Exclusive-How-a-Chinese-prisoner-release-reveals-business-as-usual-at-black-jail

Tibet

China to Press Murder Charges for Inciting Tibet Immolations
Agence France-Presse, December 6, 2012
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/world/15565310/china-to-press-murder-charges-for-inciting-tibet-immolations/

Related:
煽动自焚者必将受到法律严惩 (Those Inciting Self-immolations Shall Inevitably Be Legally Punished)
Gannan Daily, December 3, 2012
http://gn.gansudaily.com.cn/system/2012/12/03/013508017.shtml

Unofficial translation by Dui Hui available at:
http://www.duihuahrjournal.org/2012/12/china-outlines-criminal-punishments-for.html

Hong Kong

After Losing Family, Transsexual Activist Pushes for Rights
South China Morning Post, December 5, 2012
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1098047/after-losing-family-transsexual-activist-rallies-rights

Human Rights Defenders

Nobel Laureates Call on China's Xi to Release Jailed Peace Prize Winner Liu
Reuters, December 4, 2012
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9721623/Nobel-laureates-call-on-Chinas-Xi-to-release-jailed-Peace-Prize-winner-Liu.html

To read the open letter, see:
134 Nobel Laureates Urge Incoming Chinese President Xi Jinping to Release Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo and Wife Liu Xia
December 4, 2012
http://en.rsf.org/china-134-nobel-laureates-urge-incoming-04-12-2012,43757.html

Migrant Workers

一代中国农民工的集体记忆：四平米的家 (Collective Memories of a Generation of Migrant Workers: 4sqm Home)
China Youth Daily, December 5, 2012
http://ndnews.oeeee.com/html/201212/05/6766.html

Protests and Petitions

Police Halt Protest Outside CCTV Tower
Global Times, December 5, 2012
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/748286.shtml

北京突然釋放7萬上訪民眾 (Beijing Unexpectedly Releases 70K Petitioners from Jiujingzhuang Black Jail)
Radio Taiwan International, December 4, 2012
http://n.yam.com/rti/politics/20121204/20121204028048.html

Related:
Beijing Black Jail 'Releases Thousands of Petitioners'
South China Morning Post, December 5, 2012
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1097971/beijing-black-jail-releases-thousands-petitioners

“黑保安”头目被指应邀进京 其父称，禹州信访局曾找王高伟“说给他找了一个好活” (Family of Ringleader of Group on Trial for Illegally Detaining Henan Petitioners in Beijing Says He Had Been Invited to Do So)
Southern Metropolis Daily, December 5, 2012
http://epaper.oeeee.com/A/html/2012-12/05/content_1767163.htm

Tibet

Call for Freedom Written in Blood
Radio Free Asia, December 4, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/blood-12042012162826.html

XUAR

Uyghur Scholar Harassed
Radio Free Asia, December 4, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/scholar-12042012144309.html

Education

非沪籍女孩无法参加上海中考 辍学争取异地高考 (Shanghai: 15-yo Student Forced to Study at Home Due to Lack of Residency, Challenges Authorities for Right to Take Uni Entrance Exam in Shanghai)
The Beijing Times, December 3, 2012
http://news.163.com/12/1203/03/8HP4JLS400014AED.html

Related:
Shanghainese Youth Borrow a Page from Hong Kong's Regionalist Hate Speech
South China Morning Post, December 4, 2012
http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1097261/shanghainese-youth-borrow-page-hong-kongs-regionalist-hate-speech

Human Rights Defenders

Woman Released from Labor Camp a 2nd Time
Shenzhen Daily, December 4, 2012
http://www.szdaily.com/content/2012-12/04/content_7461637.htm

Related:
郭大军母亲劳教案代理律师王甫：行政起诉状（全文） (Administrative Suit against the Lanzhou Municipal Committee on the Administration of Reeducation-Through-Labor)
Wang Fu (lawyer representing Zhao Meifu), December 3, 2012
http://weiba.weibo.com/10314/t/z81gAu7Vg

探儿母亲遭劳教事件再激网络民愤 (Gansu Woman Who Previously Petitioned Ordered to 1 Year Reeducation-Through-Labor after Being Intercept on Way Home from Trip to Visit to Son in Beijing)
British Broadcasting Corporation, November 22, 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/chinese_news/2012/11/121122_china_laojiao.shtml

Lawyer Warned Off Foreign Media
Radio Free Asia, December 3, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/lawyer-12032012173915.html

A copy of the appeal calling for the abolishment of the RTL system is available online at:
要求立即撤销《国务院关於劳动教养问题的决定》等劳教行政法规的公民权力主张书
http://www.hrichina.org/cn/content/3636