Death Penalty

Beijing Touts Drop in Capital Crimes in Annual Human Rights Reports
South China Morning Post, May 15, 2013
www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1237864/beijing-touts-drop-capital-crimes-annual-human-rights-reports

Environment

云南发改委:中石油昆明项目环评报告涉密不公示 (Yunnan Authorities: Environmental Impact Assessment of Oil Refinery Project is Secret)
China National Radio, May 14, 2013
news.163.com/13/0514/19/8US23FMU00014JB5.html

Healthy Environment Vital, Says White Paper
China Daily, May 15, 2013
usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2013-05/15/content_16499510.htm

Health

Man Sues Chinese Hospital Over Forced Psychiatric Admission
Radio Free Asia, May 15, 2013
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/sues-05142013105349.html

Human Rights Defenders

Change in China 'Inevitable', Says Blind Activist Chen
Agence France-Presse, May 14, 2013
www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/130514/change-china-inevitable-says-blind-activist-chen

Information Control

发泡餐具5月1日解禁产品标准、准入条件与回收机制饱受质疑, 律师要求发改委公开解禁信息 (Lawyer Seeks Information on Controversial Decision to Lift Ban on Polyfoam Utensils)
The Beijing Times, May 15, 2013
epaper.jinghua.cn/html/2013-05/15/content_1989303.htm

China Tries to Rein in Microbloggers
The Guardian, May 14, 2013
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/15/china-microblogging-accounts-closed

International Relations

88 Generation Students Hold Talks with U.S., China
Radio Free Asia, May 14, 2013
www.rfa.org/english/news/burma/88-generation-students-05142013135841.html

Arctic Council Adds Six Members, Including China
The New York Times, May 15, 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/16/world/europe/arctic-council-adds-six-members-including-china.html

Land, Housing, Property

中国多地现暴力征地 官方紧急通知严肃查处 (Ministry Issues Urgent Directive to Investigate Unlawful and Violent Land Grabs)
Beijing News, May 14, 2013
www.bjnews.com.cn/news/2013/05/14/263693.html

Related:
China Ministry Urges End to "Forcible" Land Requisition: Paper
Reuters, May 14, 2013
www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/15/us-china-land-idUSBRE94E04320130515

Political and Economic Reform

Binding the Baton in China
Asia Times Online, May 14, 2013
www.atimes.com/atimes/China/CHIN-01-140513.html

Population

北上广超生人群调查:明星富豪及中低收入者均有 (Survey: Celebrities, Millionaires, and Low-to Middle-Income Families Among Those Exceeding Birth Quota)
Beijing Evening Post, May 15, 2013
news.sina.com.cn/c/sd/2013-05-15/151927130901.shtml

Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Shan Rebels Ask China to Provide Shelter for Refugees
The Irrawaddy, May 15, 2013
www.irrawaddy.org/archives/34582

Vulnerable Groups

China Sex Workers 'Abused by Police'
British Broadcasting Corporation, May 14, 2013
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-22520455

Opinion

中国缺乏开放的思想市场 (China Still Lacks Free Thinking)
Financial Times, May 15, 2013
www.ftchinese.com/story/001050413

人民日报：期待昆明成功走出“PX困局” (Transparency and Open Information are Key to Building Public Trust and Reducing Mass Protests against Industrial Projects)
The People's Daily, May 15, 2013
comments.caijing.com.cn/2013-05-15/112781409.html

Business and Human Rights

PPG Funds Social Responsibility Research at Tsinghua

China Daily, May 13, 2013

www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2013-05/13/content_16495449.htm

Civil Society

Quake Prompts Growth in NGOs

China Daily, May 13, 2013

usa.chinadaily.com.cn/epaper/2013-05/13/content_16494692.htm

Corruption

China's Illegal 'Black Jails': How A Government Incentive Created More Corruption

International Business Times, May 13, 2013

www.ibtimes.com/chinas-illegal-black-jails-how-government-incentive-created-more-corruption-1254695

刘铁男涉嫌严重违纪 被免去领导职务 (Senior Planning Official Sacked for “Disciplinary Violations”)

Southern Weekly, May 14, 2013

www.infzm.com/content/90359

Related:

China Social Media Hailed after Official Toppled

Agence France-Presse, May 14, 2013

news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Science%2Band%2BTech/Story/A1Story20130514-422459.html

简讯：重庆公安局原副局长唐建华被双开 (Former Chongqing Police Official Sacked, Expelled from CPC for Taking Bribes)

British Broadcasting Corporation, May 13, 2013

www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/2013/05/130513_brief_chongqing_tang.shtml

Disaster

Five Years After A Quake, Chinese Cite Shoddy Reconstruction

National Public Radio, May 13, 2013 

www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2013/05/13/183635289/Five-Years-After-A-Quake-Chinese-Cite-Shoddy-Reconstruction

Environment

北京九成受访者认为PM2.5主要来自汽车尾气 (Survey: 90% of Beijingers Think Automobile Exhaust is Major Cause of Pollution)

Caijing, May 14, 2013

politics.caijing.com.cn/2013-05-14/112775884.html

Health

中国已有35人死于H7N9禽流感 (Bird Flu Fatalities Reach 35, 130 Infected)

British Broadcasting Corporation, May 14, 2013

www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/2013/05/130514_china_bird_flu.shtml

Human Rights Defenders

Lawyers Held, Beaten After Sichuan 'Black Jail' Visit

Radio Free Asia, May 13, 2013

http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/lawyers-05132013104116.html

For more information, see:

围观“黑监狱” 多名律师遭殴打关押

Lawyers Beaten During Attempt to Visit Black Jail

Human Rights in China, May 13, 2013

CH: http://www.hrichina.org/cn/content/6681

EN: http://www.hrichina.org/content/6680

Daughter of a Detained Chinese Rights Activist Speaks

The New York Times, May 13, 2013

rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/daughter-of-a-detained-chinese-rights-activist-speaks/

Information Control

中国整治网站编发虚假新闻、恶意篡改标题行为 (China to Tighten Regulation on Internet News and Combat “Fake Information”)

Caijing, May 14, 2013

politics.caijing.com.cn/2013-05-14/112776398.html

China Launches New Crackdown on Internet Celebrities

The Telegraph, May 13, 2013

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10053820/China-launches-new-crackdown-on-internet-celebrities.html