Animal Welfare and Rights (动物福利和权利)

报告：中国需求加剧象牙走私
Report: a quarter of ivory sold in Beijing and Shanghai shops illegal
Voice of America, December 9, 2014
CH:http://www.voachinese.com/content/china-illegal-ivory-trade-20141209/2551422.html
EN: http://www.voanews.com/content/reu-report-a-quarter-of-ivory-sold-in-beijing-shanghai-shops-illegal/2551357.html

Children (儿童)

5 Chinese students die after school wall collapses
The Washington Post, December 8, 2014
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/5-chinese-students-die-after-school-wall-collapses/2014/12/08/baabeb62-7ed2-11e4-b936-f3afab0155a7_story.html

Corruption (腐败)

中纪委网站开通海外追逃专栏 (Central Commission for Discipline Inspection sets up webpage for leads on corrupt officials on the run overseas)
Voice of America, December 9, 2014
http://www.voachinese.com/content/rdr-china-fox-hunt-20141209/2551439.html

Hong Kong (香港)

Hong Kong court issues order to clear Admiralty protest site
The Guardian, December 9, 2014
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/09/hong-kong-court-issues-order-to-clear-admiralty-protest-site

Hong Kong authorities gear up to clear Admiralty protest site
The Wall Street Journal, December 9, 2014
http://www.wsj.com/articles/hong-kong-authorities-gear-up-to-clear-admiralty-protest-site-1418114865?tesla=y&mod=rss_about_china&mg=reno64-wsj&url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10319881725722884086804580326372732720664.html?mod=rss_about_china

时代风云人物票选 莫迪居首 黄之锋第三 (Narendra Modi lands first, and Joshua Wong third, in TIME Person of the Year reader poll)
South China Morning Post, December 9, 2014
http://www.nanzao.com/sc/international/44082/shi-dai-feng-yun-ren-wu-piao-xuan-mo-di-ju-shou-huang-zhi-feng-di-san

Human Rights Defenders (人权卫士)

中国刑期最长政治犯之一哈达获释(China releases Mongol dissident Hada after longest detention)
Voice of America, December 9, 2014
http://www.voachinese.com/content/china-releases-political-prisoners-20141209/2551456.html

Related:
China releases one of its longest-serving political prisoners, relative says
Reuters, December 9, 2014
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/09/us-china-rights-idUSKBN0JN0VG20141209

International Human Rights (国际人权)

中欧人权对话提及刘晓波和香港占中示威(EU-China Human Rights Dialogue covers Liu Xiaobo and Hong Kong’s “Occupy Central” protests)
British Broadcasting Corporation, December 9, 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/2014/12/141209_china_eu_human-rights_dialogue

Related:
China does not need human rights lesson, says top envoy
EUobserver, December 9, 2014
http://euobserver.com/foreign/126838

Internet (互联网)

扎克伯格示好鲁炜 北京或恩准脸书入境? (Zuckerberg “kowtows” to Lu Wei, could Beijing allow entry of Facebook?)
Voice of America, December 9, 2014
http://www.voachinese.com/content/facebook-may-20141208/2551216.html

Related:
Warm west coast reception for China’s web czar (chillier in Washington)
The New York Times, December 8, 2014
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/08/a-trip-to-california-for-chinas-internet-czar/?_r=0

Media (媒体)

China rails against pollution, of the journalistic variety
The New York Times, December 8, 2014
http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/08/china-rails-against-pollution-of-the-journalistic-variety/?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

Protests and Petitions (抗议和请愿)

万人联署致信人大国务院 呼吁取消社会抚养费 (Over 10,000 sign petition to NPC and State Council to urge abolition of “social maintenance fees”—fines for having extra children)
Radio Free Asia, December 8, 2014
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/nu-12082014114819.html

XUAR (新疆维吾尔自治区)

China jails students of Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti
British Broadcasting Corporation, December 9, 2014
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-30390801

Corruption (腐败)

中国向美国提供在逃贪官黑名单 (China gives U.S. blacklist of corrupt officials on the run)
Radio Free Asia, December 5, 2014
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/zhengzhi/yl-12052014115024.html

China probe of former security chief may mean closed-door trial
Bloomberg, December 8, 2014
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-07/china-probe-of-zhou-for-secrets-leaks-may-mean-closed-door-trial.html

周永康案是中共建政以来最大政变案？(Is Zhou Yongkang’s case the biggest coup since Communist takeover?)
Voice of America, December 8, 2014
http://www.voachinese.com/content/zhouyongkang-case-20141205/2547874.html

Culture (文化)

Xi Jinping: the growing cult of China's “Big Daddy Xi”
The Telegraph, December 8, 2014
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/11279204/Xi-Jinping-the-growing-cult-of-Chinas-Big-Daddy-Xi.html

Hong Kong (香港)

Hong Kong’s leader expects tough fight in clearing protests
Bloomberg, December 7, 2014
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-12-07/hong-kong-s-leader-expects-tough-fight-in-clearing-protest-sites

Hong Kong student leader Joshua Wong ends hunger strike
CNN, December 8, 2014
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/12/07/world/asia/hong-kong-hunger-strike/

Related:
A frail face becomes a defiant focus of Hong Kong’s waning protest
不甘心离去，黄之锋的绝食抗议
The New York Times, December 7, 2014
http://cn.nytimes.com/china/20141207/c07hongkong/dual/

Occupy protesters seek legal advice over “police abuse” while detained
South China Morning Post, December 8, 2014
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1657260/protesters-seek-legal-advice-over-abuse-while-detained

六四幸存者唐路香港声援占中 挺民主社会对抗专制 (June Fourth survivor Rose Tang supports “Occupy Central” in Hong Kong, welcomes the democratic society’s fight against dictatorship)
Radio Free Asia, December 6, 2014
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/gangtai/ql2-12062014091353.html

Internet (互联网)

2014网络自由排名中国垫底 “占中行动”让中国政府更加惧怕网络自由 (China, at bottom in Global Internet Freedom 2014, is made even more fearful about Internet freedom by “Occupy Central”)
Radio Free Asia, December 5, 2014
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/meiti/vt-12052014114950.html

鲁炜走访苹果、脸书 (China's top Internet regulator visits Apple and Facebook)
Voice of America, December 8, 2014
http://www.voachinese.com/content/luwei-apple-20141208/2549971.html

Labor (劳工)

Labor movement “concertmaster” tests Beijing's boundaries
Reuters, December 6, 2014
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/07/us-china-labour-lawyer-insight-idUSKBN0JL00T20141207

Media (媒体)

Environmental filmmakers have rare impact in China
Townhall, December 4, 2014
http://townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2014/12/04/environmental-filmmakers-have-rare-impact-in-china-n1927268

Tibet (西藏)

Tibetan activist dies after suspected beating, torture in jail
Radio Free Asia, December 7, 2014
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/torture-12072014192110.html

XUAR (新疆维吾尔自治区)

The twilight world of China's wild west
British Broadcasting Corporation, December 7, 2014
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30344879

乌鲁木齐两起暴恐案一审宣判8人死刑 (First trial of Urumqi’s two terrorist attacks sentences 8 to death)
Voice of America, December 8, 2014
http://www.voachinese.com/content/china-xinjiang-20141208/2550022.html

Opinion and Editorial (观点和评论)

New domestic violence law won't change chauvinistic attitudes of China's men
South China Morning Post, December 8, 2014
http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1656487/new-domestic-violence-law-wont-change-chauvinistic-attitudes

Academic Exchange (学术交流)

美众议院议员要求国会机构调查孔子学院 (U.S. congressman demands probe of Confucius Institutes)
British Broadcasting Corporation, December 5, 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/world/2014/12/141205_us_china_university_ties

Related:
House panel investigates “Confucius institutes”
USA Today, December 5, 2014
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/12/04/house-china-confucius-institutes/19909507/