陕西产科医生张淑侠涉嫌拐卖儿童案将择日宣判 (Trial of Shaanxi obstetrician accused of child trafficking closes without a verdict)
Xinhua, December 28, 2013
http://news.sohu.com/20131230/n392675594.shtml
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Trial of obstetrician accused of child trafficking opens in Shaanxi
South China Morning Post, December 30, 2013
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1393267/trail-obstetrician-accused-child-trafficking-opens-shaanxi
China parents count cost of sending children to overseas universities
Financial Times, December 30, 2013
http://on.ft.com/1d3tAbn
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英媒：中国父母送子女海外留学还划算吗？(Financial Times: Chinese parents calculate costs of sending children to overseas universities)
British Broadcasting Corporation, December 30, 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/press_review/2013/12/131229_press_overseas_students_parents.shtml
Tibetans, Uyghurs call for end to China’s Confucius Institutes
The Tibet Post, December 26, 2013
http://www.thetibetpost.com/en/news/international/3800--tibetans-uyghurs-call-for-end-to-chinas-confucius-institutes-in-canada
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Universities and colleges urged to end ties with Confucius Institutes
The Canadian Association of University Teachers, December 23, 2013
http://www.caut.ca/news/2013/12/17/universities-and-colleges-urged-to-end-ties-with-confucius-institutes
中国中度与重度污染土壤约达5000万亩 无法耕种 (Eight million acres of China's farmland too polluted to grow crops)
Xinhua, December 30, 2013
http://money.163.com/13/1230/11/9HBDMCPA00252G50.html
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China says over 3 mln hectares of land too polluted to farm
Reuters, December 28, 2013
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/30/china-environment-farmland-idUSL3N0K90OY20131230
With flowers, Ai Weiwei protests his loss of freedom
艾未未用鲜花抗议旅行自由被剥夺
The New York Times, December 30, 2013
http://cn.tmagazine.com/culture/20131230/t30aiweiwei/dual/
美国国家民主基金会褒奖陈子明 (NED chair pays tribute to Chen Ziming for his decades-long democracy activism)
Epoch Times, December 30, 2013
http://bit.ly/1eR3WNV
全国人大常委会通过废止劳教制度决定 (China's national legislature adopts resolution to abolish Reeducation-Through-Labor)
Guanming Network, December 28, 2013
http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2013-12-28/101629105626.shtml
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China eases one-child policy, ends re-education through labor camps
CNN, December 28, 2013
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/28/world/asia/china-one-child-policy-official/
Celebrating Mao and visiting Yasukuni shrine
The Diplomat, December 28, 2013
http://thediplomat.com/2013/12/celebrating-mao-and-visiting-yasukuni-shrine/
Four Uyghur women forced to abort their babies in Xinjiang
Radio Free Asia, December 30, 2013
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/abortion-12302013050902.html
普宁千人堵路阻建垃圾焚烧厂 汕头学生政府前抗议造发电厂 (Residents in Puning and Shantou protest construction of industrial plants)
Radio Free Asia, December 30, 2013
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/huanjing/yf1-12302013100043.html
广东省东莞市，鸿泰玩具厂工人堵门讨薪 (Dongguan toy-factory workers protest over wages, 200 police arrive to clear scene)
Boxun, December 29, 2013
http://www.peacehall.com/news/gb/china/2013/12/201312301832.shtml#.UsGqx9JDvTp
China: City workers sent to prison for vendor’s death
Associated Press, December 27, 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/28/world/asia/china-city-workers-sent-to-prison-for-vendors-death.html
新疆莎车发生暴袭事件8人被击毙
Further Xinjiang violence claims eight lives
Financial Times, December 30, 2013
CH: http://www.ftchinese.com/story/001054167
EN: http://on.ft.com/1cCfpO1
Here's the truth about Shanghai schools: they're terrible
The Guardian, December 28, 2013
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/28/shanghai-china-schools-terrible-not-ideal
审查和监控被中宣部追杀多次改名的记者庞皎明辞职记 (Caixin reporter forced to “resign” after changing his name many times to avoid surveillance)
Radio France Internationale, December 27, 2013
http://rfi.my/JwBaDp
China tightens infant formula rules in food safety drive
Reuters, December 25, 2013
www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/25/china-dairy-idUSL3N0K40R920131225
社科院反腐蓝皮书公布中国2013年反腐十件大事 (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Blue Book publicizes 10 major anti-corruption events of 2013)
China.com, December 27, 2013
http://china.huanqiu.com/politics/2013-12/4703374.html
China unveils anti-graft plans, focus on protests, reforms
Reuters, December 25, 2013
www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/25/us-china-corruption-idUSBRE9BO04620131225
30高校年度三公经费近7000万 浙大最高逾千万 (30 universities spent nearly RMB 70 million [approx. $ 12 million] a year on perks for school officials, over 10 million for Zhejiang University alone)
South China Morning Post, December 27, 2013
http://www.nanzao.com/sc/china/18647/30gao-xiao-nian-du-san-gong-jing-fei-jin-7000mo-zhe-da-zui-gao-yu-qian-mo
China to unveil college enrollment reform in 1H 2014
Global Times, December 27, 2013
www.globaltimes.cn/content/834453.shtml#.UrzfT9IW3Sk
China far from meeting environmental targets
Wall Street Journal, December 26, 2013
blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2013/12/26/china-far-from-meeting-environmental-targets/
发改委报告称中国60%城市空气质量不达标 (Official Chinese report states that 60% of cities suffer from air pollution)
China News Service, December 27, 2013
http://china.huanqiu.com/politics/2013-12/4696626.html
工信部向11家民营企业发放虚拟运营商牌照 (China’s official telecommunications watchdog licenses 11 private companies to operate mobile virtual networks)
Wall Street Journal, December 27, 2013
http://cn.wsj.com/gb/20131226/bch180017.asp?source=rss
With Suu Kyi and China, it’s complicated
Irrawaddy, December 24, 2013
www.irrawaddy.org/contributor/suu-kyi-china-complicated.html
Widow of China’s purged leader dies at age 95
Associated Press, December 26, 2013
www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/widow-of-chinas-purged-leader-dies-at-age-95/2013/12/26/8163f252-6dfb-11e3-a5d0-6f31cd74f760_story.html
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赵紫阳夫人梁伯琪去世 享年95岁 (Liang Boqi, Zhao Ziyang’s wife, dies at age 95)
South China Morning Post, December 27, 2013
http://www.nanzao.com/sc/china/18596/zhao-zi-yang-fu-ren-liang-bo-qi-qu-shi-xiang-nian-95sui
Homeowner’s ‘Cannons’ Warn Demolition Teams: No Closer
河南市民自制黑色大炮抵抗拆迁
New York Times, December 27, 2013
http://cn.nytimes.com/china/20131227/c27homeowners/dual/
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河南荥阳现防拆闹剧:老汉制“大炮”摆房前屋后 (Elderly Henan man mounts homemade cannons around his house to resist demolition)
China News Service, December 27, 2013
http://news.21cn.com/caiji/roll1/a/2013/1223/20/25683002.shtml
We should not worship Mao as a god, says China’s president
The Telegraph, December 26, 2013
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10538324/We-should-not-worship-Mao-as-a-god-says-Chinas-president.html
Chairman Mao's old home to reopen inside luxury mall
The Telegraph, December 26, 2013
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10538153/Chairman-Maos-old-home-to-reopen-inside-luxury-mall.html
China cancels plans for Mao's 120th but in one village, his spirit lives on
The Guardian, December 26, 2013
www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/26/nanjiecun-commune-capitalism
For Mao’s birthday, a changing China cashes in and celebrates — carefully
Associated Press, December 25, 2013
seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2022531545_maoanniversaryxml.html