Censorship and Surveillance (审查和监控)

China's social media underground
Foreign Policy, September 16, 2014
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/09/16/chinas_social_media_underground_twitter

Corruption (腐败)

China takes anti-corruption drive overseas
Financial Times, September 16, 2014
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/6ec199d0-3cc5-11e4-871d-00144feabdc0.html

Bosses and cash vanish at shoe firm Ultrasonice
British Broadcasting Corporation, September 16, 2014
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-29227907

Environment (环境)

Meet the biggest polluter in China's most polluted city
The Wall Street Journal, September 16, 2014, Date
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203937904580119960842299020.html

Hong Kong (香港)

港民主派申请十一游行但拒证实会否占中 (Pan-democrats apply for October 1 march, but refuse to confirm if it’s for Occupy Central)
British Broadcasting Corporation, September 16, 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/2014/09/140916_hk_occupy_demo.shtml

Human Rights Defenders (人权卫士)

九律师欲旁听程海听证会被羁押 联名告北京昌平公安局分局长 (9 lawyers file complaint against police for preventing them to attend Cheng Hai’s hearing)
Radio Free Asia, September 16, 2014
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/ql2-09162014101909.html

See more information on Cheng Hai:
hrichina.org/en/defenders/cheng-hai

Uighur scholar charged with separatism goes on trial in China
The New York Times, September 17, 2014
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/world/asia/separatism-trial-of-ilham-tohti-uighur-scholar-begins-in-china.html

Uighur scholar’s daughter laments China’s “ridiculous” charges against her father
The Washington Post, September 16, 2014
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/09/16/ilham-tohtis-daughter-laments-chinas-ridiculous-charges-against-her-father/

International Human Rights (国际人权)

Human rights forum kicks off in Beijing
Xinhua, September 17, 2014
http://www.ecns.cn/2014/09-17/134963.shtml

Opinion and Editorial (观点和社论)

China's unhappy rich
The Wall Street Journal, September 17, 2014
http://online.wsj.com/articles/chinas-unhappy-rich-1410889484

Corruption (腐败)

Fancy wine and French-trained chefs: China goes after officials’ luxe “training centers”
The Wall Street Journal, September 16, 2014
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/09/16/fancy-wine-and-french-trained-chefs-china-goes-after-officials-luxe-training-centers/

Environment (环境)

《自然》暗示水电站“触发”鲁甸地震，地震局官员说不科学 (China Earthquake Administration: Nature Magazine’s intimation that hydropower plant triggered Ludian earthquake lacks unscientific basis)
The Paper, September 16, 2014
http://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_1267153

Human Rights Defenders (人权卫士)

民主党成员相继被捕　不排除是新一轮打压 (Democracy Party members detained one after another, could this be a new round of suppression?)
Radio Free Asia, September 12, 2014
http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/arrest-09122014095905.html

Related:
Another Zhejiang democracy activist in custody for “subversion”
Human Rights in China, September 15, 2014
http://www.hrichina.org/en/another-zhejiang-democracy-activist-custody-subversion

Protests and Petitions (抗议和请愿)

At least five more people detained over Huizhou incinerator protest
South China Morning Post, September 16, 2014
http://www.scmp.com/article/1593055/least-five-more-people-detained-over-huizhou-incinerator-protest

Society (社会)

China’s top 10 social problems: no faith in the state, selfishness
The Wall Street Journal, September 16, 2014
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/09/16/chinas-top-10-social-problems-no-faith-in-the-state-selfishness/?mod=WSJBlog

Opinion and Editorial (观点和社论)

分析：江泽民的“老人干政”走到尽头？ (Analysis: Is it the end of Jiang Zemin’s “old man political influence?”)
British Broadcasting Corporation, September 16, 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/2014/09/140916_jiang_zemin_influence_ccp.shtml

Animal Welfare and Rights (动物福利和权利)

After dog rescues, activists left with a daunting task
有爱心缺资源，中国式民间动物保护的尴尬
The New York Times, September 15, 2014
http://cn.nytimes.com/china/20140915/c15dogs/dual/

Corruption (腐败)

Suicide cases across China tied to drive against graft
反腐运动导致中国官员自杀率上升？
The New York Times, September 15, 2014
http://cn.nytimes.com/china/20140915/c15suicide/dual/

Hong Kong (香港)

Half of Hongkongers say lawmakers should veto Beijing's electoral reform plan
The South China Morning Post, September 15, 2014, Date
EN: http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1592694/48-cent-hongkongers-poll-back-veto-beijings-reform-plan
CH: http://www.nanzao.com/sc/hk/37855/nan-zao-diao-cha-jin-ban-shou-fang-zhe-ji-li-fa-hui-fou-jue-zheng-gai-fang

Thousands of activists stage 'black cloth' march in Hong Kong
Reuters, September 14, 2014, Date
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/14/us-hongkong-china-democracy-protests-idUSKBN0H907T20140914

See photo’s from the march
Human Rights in China, September 14, 2014
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152810106251414.1073741842.94042326413&type=1

International Relations (国际关系)

近半数中国富人仍希望移居欧美 (Nearly half of China's rich still want to relocate to Europe and America)
The Financial Times, September 15, 2014
http://www.ftchinese.com/story/001058196

Information Control (信息控制)

Foreign journalists in China see decline in reporting conditions
外国驻华记者工作环境日趋艰难
The New York Times, September 15, 2014
http://cn.nytimes.com/china/20140915/c15journalists/dual/

內地81歲作家鐵流因尋釁滋事罪被刑事拘留 (Tie Liu, 81-year-old mainland writer administratively detained for “picking quarrels”)
Radio Television Hong Kong, September 15, 2014
http://rthk.hk/mobile/news/20140915/1037167.htm

21世纪网被吊销所有网站资质 (21cbh.com is stripped of all website operational qualification)
Beijing Morning Post, September 13, 2014
http://www.morningpost.com.cn/2014/0913/80950.shtml

Human Rights Defenders (人权卫士)

中国人权律师团成立一周年成员增至225人 (Lawyers Group to Protect Human Rights in China at 1 year mark, with 225 members)
Radio Free Asia, September 13, 2014
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/ql2-09132014120710.html

Uygur scholar Ilham Tohti to go on trial for separatism this week, says lawyer
The South China Morning Post, September 13, 2014
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1591636/uygur-scholar-ilham-tohti-go-trial-separatism-week-says-lawyer

Labor (劳工)

China’s workers are turning from analogue slaves into digital rebels
The Guardian, September 14, 2014
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/14/china-analogue-slaves-digital-rebellion

中国女大学生上法院告雇主“只招男生”(Chinese female university student sues Xindongfang Culinary School for employment discrimination)
Voice of America, September 15, 2014
http://www.voachinese.com/content/employment-discrimination-china-20140914/2449200.html