Gender

Rule against Gender Discrimination Takes Effect
China Daily, January 03, 2013
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2013-01/03/content_16078280.htm

Labor

What Worker Shortage? The Real Story of China’s Migrants
China Realtime Report, January 04, 2013
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2013/01/04/what-worker-shortage-the-real-story-of-chinas-migrants/

Law

Bo Xilai Case Is the biggest Test for China's Legal Progress Since Gang of Four Trial
South China Morning Post, January 04, 2013
http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1119183/bo-xilai-case-biggest-test-chinas-legal-progress-gang-four

Policeman Wang Dengchao Jailed for Graft 'after Calling for Democracy'
South China Morning Post, January 04, 2013
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1119383/policeman-wang-dengchao-jailed-graft-after-calling-democracy

Related:
深圳警员王登朝因民主活动入狱案再添新证据 (New Evidence in Case of Shenzhen Officer Sent to Jail for Activities Promoting Democracy)
Civil Rights & Livelihood Watch, December 21, 2012
http://www.msguancha.com/Article/ShowArticle.asp?ArticleID=16175

Media

《南周》聲明轟新聞審查 (Southern Weekly Appeal Blasts News Censorship)
Ming Pao, January 04, 2013
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/20130104/-9-2863209/1.html

Related:
Open Letter Ups the Ante in the Southern Weekly Incident
China Media Project, January 04, 2013
http://cmp.hku.hk/2013/01/04/30311/

中国否认对纽约时报记者拒发签证 (MFA Denies New York Times Reporter's Visa App Rejected)
British Broadcasting Corporation, January 03, 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/chinese_news/2013/01/130103_nytimes_visa.shtml

Politics

这样的政治改革，不值得期待 (Not Worth Waiting for Political Reform Like This)
Radio France Internationale, January 03, 2013
http://www.chinese.rfi.fr/中国/20130103-这样的政治改革，不值得期待

Protests and Petitions

東莞千川籍民工示威 爆警民衝突 (Dongguan: Demonstration by 1K Migrant Workers from Sichuan Becomes Clash with Police)
Australia Daily, January 04, 2013
http://dailynews.sina.com/bg/chn/chnnews/ausdaily/20130103/15544117335.html

Civil Society

In China, Grass-roots Groups Take on H.I.V./AIDS Outreach Work
The New York Times, January 02, 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/03/world/asia/chinese-groups-slowly-carve-out-space-in-work-against-hiv-aids.html

中国民间组织报告监督维护艾滋病人权益工作 维权人士称艾滋病患权益有改善 (Chinese NGO Publishes Report on Gov'ts Work Preventing HIV/AIDS and Protecting Patients' Rights; Activists Say Rights Slowly Improving)
Radio Free Asia, January 02, 2013
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/aids-01022013104115.html

Environment

重庆规定环境违法企业贷款将受到限制 (Chongqing Regs: Loans of Polluting Companies to Be Restricted)
China Youth Daily, January 03, 2013
http://news.163.com/13/0103/02/8K8SC0KB00014AED.html

Human Rights Defenders

陈光诚侄子陈克贵已被送到临沂监狱 (Chen Kegui, Nephew of Chen Guangcheng, Transferred to Linyi Prison)
Duowei News, January 02, 2013
http://china.dwnews.com/news/2013-01-02/59054894.html

探訪劉霞之後——紀錄片與社會行動 (Aftermath of Visit to Liu Xia: Documentary and Social Movement)
iSun Affairs, January 02, 2013
http://www.isunaffairs.com/?p=12714

Media

宣傳部長刪改《南周》獻辭 (Propaganda Department Edits Southern Weekly's New Years Message, Yanhuang Chunqiu Scolds CPC for Going against Constitution)
Apple Daily, January 03, 2013
http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/international/art/20130103/18121691

Related:
A Consensus for Political Reform
China Media Project, January 02, 2013
http://cmp.hku.hk/2013/01/02/30203/

Reform Realities
Chang Ping, January 01, 2013
http://changping.posterous.com/reform-realities

Protests and Petitions

Woman Held Over Letter to Wen
Radio Free Asia, January 02, 2013
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/letter-01022013154705.html

元旦上千访民被关北京久敬庄 (1K+ Petitioners Held in Beijing's de facto Detention Hub Jiujingzhuang during New Year)
Radio Free Asia, January 01, 2013
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/Xinwen/fm-01012013104559.html

环境维权引发中国动荡
China’s New ‘Middle Class’ Environmental Protests
China Dialogue, January 02, 2013
CH: http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/ch/5561-China-s-new-middle-class-environmental-protests
EN: http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/5561-China-s-new-middle-class-environmental-protests

XUAR

Writer's Death Reports Doubted
Radio Free Asia, January 02, 2013
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/writer-01022013195012.html

Related:
国际特赦呼吁中国澄清维族作家生死 (Amnesty International Calls for China to Clarify whether Uyghur Writer Remains Living)
British Broadcasting Corporation, January 02, 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/chinese_news/2013/01/130102_xinjiang_writer_amnesty.shtml

About the Individual: Nurmuhemmet Yasin
Incorporating Responsibility 2008
http://www.ir2008.org/12/about.php

Environment

北京等74城市空气质量已可查 部分官网无法打开 (New Air Quality Standards for Beijing and 73 Other Cities Commence, Some Official Monitoring Pages Inaccessible)
The Beijing News, January 02, 2013
http://news.163.com/13/0102/02/8K6A044F00014AED.html

Hong Kong

香港“倒梁”游行，抗议北京之手 (Hong Kongers March Calling for Chief Executive to Resign and Protesting Beijing's Involvement in HK)
Deutsche Welle, January 01, 2013
http://www.dw.de/香港倒梁游行抗议北京之手/a-16490803

愛港力量遊行本台採訪期間受襲 (Reporter with NOW TV Attacked while Covering Pro-establishment March)
NOW TV, December 30, 2012
http://news.now.com/home/local/player?newsId=55298

Related:
Hong Kong Pro-Government March Gets Caught for Hiring Protesters
BadCanto, January 02, 2013
http://badcanto.wordpress.com/2013/01/02/hong-kong-pro-government-march-gets-caught-for-hiring-protesters/

Human Rights Defenders

Police Break Up New Year Dinner
Radio Free Asia, January 01, 2013
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/dinner-01012013174422.html

Activists Visit Liu Xia
Radio Free Asia, January 01, 2013
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/nobel-01012013110843.html

For the activist’s video from the visit, see:
2012年12月28日胡佳、徐友渔等网友架走保安，成功探访刘霞
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJumioueaAo

胡佳：不能让对刘霞的非法拘禁再继续下去 (Hu Jia: This Illegal Detention of Liu Xia Cannot Be Allowed to Continue)
Radio France Internationale, January 01, 2013
http://www.chinese.rfi.fr/中国/20130101-胡佳：不能让对刘霞的非法拘禁再继续下去

For a map and photos of Liu Xia's residential compound, see:
「行動施壓 還劉霞自由」 (Operation: Restore Liu Xia's Freedom)
Ming Pao, January 02, 2013
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/20130102/-9-2861766/1.html

Media

China Forces New York Times Reporter Chris Buckley to Leave Country
The Guardian, December 31, 2012
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/31/china-new-york-times-journalist

Society

The Disappeared
Foreign Policy, January 02, 2013
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/01/02/the_disappeared

Environment

“PX项目”群体过敏症 (Mass Hypersensitivity toward PX Projects)
The Beijing News, December 24, 2012
http://focus.news.163.com/12/1224/10/8JFUNIGT00011SM9.html

Education

Easing of College Exam Barriers Fails to Satisfy Migrant Parents
South China Morning Post, December 31, 2012
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1116179/easing-college-exam-barriers-fails-satisfy-migrant-parents

Related:
14省份出台异地高考方案 京沪粤门槛高 (Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangdong at Forefront as 14 Provinces and Cities Introduce Uni Exam Schemes for Migrants)
China News Service, December 31, 2012
http://news.163.com/12/1231/00/8K0U55GD00014AEE.html

Government

“公知上书”遭禁，新政难启？ (Access to Intellectuals' "Proposal for a Consensus on Reform" Blocked – Poor Start for the New Gov't?)
Deutsche Welle, December 29, 2012
http://www.dw.de/公知上书遭禁新政难启/a-16487367

Related:
改革共识倡议书 (Proposal for a Consensus on Reform)
December 25, 2012
http://www.mingpaonews.com/download/ga20121227_1465.pdf