China orders nation’s journalists to take Marxism classes
South China Morning Post, August 27, 2013
http://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1299795/china-orders-nations-journalists-take-marxism-classes
从“寻衅滋事”到“嫖娼” (Detention and arrest of micro-bloggers for “picking quarrels” or “soliciting prostitutes” exemplify arbitrary and selective law enforcement to silence dissent)
Deutsche Welle, August 26, 2013
http://dw.de/p/19WGC
China supports U.N. investigation in Syria, urges caution
Reuters, August 26, 2013
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/26/us-syria-crisis-china-idUSBRE97P07K20130826
城镇建设沦为“圈地运动”：上届政府卖下届的地 (Urbanization has become an “enclosure movement”)
Beijing News, August 27, 2013
http://politics.people.com.cn/n/2013/0827/c1001-22702199.html
The Chinese migrants who shocked Singapore: a WSJ investigation
Wall Street Journal, August 26, 2013
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2013/08/26/the-chinese-migrants-who-shocked-singapore-a-wsj-investigation/
Chinese migrants in Singapore, Chapter Two: festering feud
Wall Street Journal, August 27, 2013
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2013/08/27/chinese-migrants-in-singapore-chapter-two-festering-feud/
The plight of China’s petitioners
Diplomat, August 27, 2013
http://thediplomat.com/2013/08/27/the-plight-of-chinas-petitioners/
中共中央政治局召开会议 决定召开十八届三中全会 (Party political bureau will hold the third plenary session of the 18th Central Committee of CPC in November)
Xinhua, August 27, 2013
http://news.eastday.com/c/20130827/u1a7622095.html
2030年中国城镇化水平将达到70% (By 2030 China will have 310 million more urbanites)
Beijing News, August 27, 2013
http://www.bjnews.com.cn/news/2013/08/27/280521.html
四部法律的有关规定拟在上海自贸区暂停实施 (Implementation of four laws will cease temporarily in Shanghai free trade zone)
Xinhua, August 27, 2013
http://politics.people.com.cn/n/2013/0827/c1001-22702182.html
China's economic rebalancing act faces uphill political battle
Wall Street Journal, August 27, 2013
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324694904578599632378204750.html
Chinese entrepreneurs, unsettled, speak out for reform
Washington Post, August 26, 2013
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/chinese-entrepreneurs-unsettled-speak-out-for-reform/2013/08/26/17b7f8b6-05b5-11e3-bfc5-406b928603b2_story.html
我国每1万人口平均拥有1.6名律师 (China has 1.6 lawyers for every ten thousand citizens)
Xinhua, August 27, 2013
http://news.eastday.com/c/20130827/u1a7621639.html
Anger as China "restores" Dalai Lama's ancestral home
Agence France-Presse, August 26, 2013
http://www.france24.com/en/20130826-anger-china-restores-dalai-lamas-ancestral-home
上海第八批援疆教师启程赴疆开始支教工作 (8th group of Shanghai teachers head to Xinjiang to support educational work)
The People’s Daily, August 26, 2013
http://politics.people.com.cn/n/2013/0826/c14562-22699613.html
Empty Promises (commentary by Jerome A. Cohen)
South China Morning Post, August 27, 2013
http://usali.org/media-entities/jerome-a-cohen-bo-xilais-trial-underlines-need-for-cross-examination-in-court/
韩德强：若重判薄熙来 中共难自我更新 (A heavy sentence for Bo means more difficulty for Party to "renew" itself)
British Broadcasting Corporation, August 27, 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/2013/08/130826_handeqiang_bo_trial.shtml
Related:
Bo Xilai’s trial: drama gone awry (new HRIC video commentary)
Human Rights in China, August 27, 2013
http://www.hrichina.org/content/6897
Bo Xilai trial nods to China's nascent civil society
The Sydney Morning Herald, August 26, 2013
http://www.smh.com.au/world/bo-xilai-trial-nods-to-chinas-nascent-civil-society-20130826-2slb7.html#ixzz2d7nsaI63
薄熙来案一审结束 法庭宣布择期宣判 (Bo Xilai’s trial ends, decision will be announced later)
Xinhua, August 26, 2013
http://china.huanqiu.com/politics/2013-08/4286696.html
薄熙来最后陈述：此事在劫难逃 只剩余生 (Bo’s final statement: I know I am doomed)
British Broadcasting Corporation, August 26, 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/2013/08/130826_china_bo_trial_wrap.shtml
See court transcript:
Jinan Intermediate People’s Court, August 22, 2013
http://www.bjnews.com.cn/news/2013/08/26/280341.html
As trial ends, fallen Chinese politician blames love triangle
薄熙來曝王立軍叛逃幕後三角戀
New York Times, August 26, 2013
http://cn.nytimes.com/china/20130826/c26trial/dual/
小学生减负 为什么这么难 (Why is it so difficult to reduce pupils’ burden?)
Beijing News, August 26, 2013
http://www.bjnews.com.cn/graphic/2013/08/26/280332.html
Burning issues in air pollution
Caixin, August 23, 2013
http://english.caixin.com/2013-08-23/100573493.html
See full report at PNAS.org
Evidence on the impact of sustained exposure to air pollution on life expectancy from China’s Huai River policy
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/07/03/1300018110.full.pdf+html
Recovery is slow in rural China’s "cancer villages"
McClatchy, August 19, 2013
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/08/19/199714/recovery-is-slow-in-rural-chinas.html
张林维权被安徽蚌埠市批捕 (Rights defender Zhang Lin arrested in Bangbu, Anhui)
Voice of America, August 26, 2013
http://www.voachinese.com/content/zhang-weilin-arrested/1736599.html
For more information on Zhang Lin see:
合肥声援张安妮就学活动遭清场
Police End Protest in Support of 10-Year-Old’s Right to Attend School
Human Rights in China, April 17, 2013
CH: http://www.hrichina.org/cn/content/6586
EN: http://www.hrichina.org/content/6644
薛蛮子北京一出租屋嫖娼被抓 被称“中国第一嫖客” (Weibo "VIP" Xue Manzi detained after being caught with prostitutes)
Beijing Morning News, August 26, 2013
http://leaders.people.com.cn/n/2013/0826/c58278-22690255.html
Related:
Noted Chinese blogger arrested on prostitution solicitation charge
Los Angeles Times, August 25, 2013
http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-china-blogger-arrest-prostitution-20130825,0,1815378.story
Related Twitter post
艾未未 Ai Weiwei @aiww, August 26, 2013
一个境外媒体人透露，薛蛮子被抓之前，主管网络的一个高官曾找他谈单独谈话威胁。(An overseas journalist reveals that Xue Manzi was threatened by a high ranking official in charge of the Internet in a private meeting before he was taken away.)
https://twitter.com/aiww/status/371891626949349376
自上海法官团伙集体嫖娼事发后，高层慎重研究决定，将“嫖娼卖淫”这一博大精深的中华非物质文化遗产收为国有，此决策再次体现了我党以德治国宇宙真理掌控社会主义宏观调控的决心，网上引发热议 (After the Shanghai judges prostitution ring was revealed, top officials decided to make prostitution—a profound "Intangible Cultural Heritage" of China—state-owned. This decision once again demonstrates our party’s resolve in mastering socialist macro-control with ruling by virtue and universal truth. This has sparked a heated debate online.)
https://twitter.com/aiww/status/371783921073008640
浙江刑拘2名治安处罚46名网络谣言制造者 (Two criminally detained, 46 punished in Zhejiang for being “online rumor spreaders” according to public security law)
Xinhua, August 26, 2013
http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2013-08-26/200928052330.shtml
网络谣言制造者傅学胜被上海警方依法刑拘 (Online rumor maker criminally detained in Shanghai)
Xinhua, August 26, 2013
http://news.eastday.com/c/20130826/u1a7618040.html
山西因网络违法犯罪批捕23人 关闭27家网站 (23 arrested for online violation, 27 websites closed in Shanxi)
Shanxi Daily, August 26, 2013
http://news.eastday.com/c/20130826/u1a7618221.html
记者刘虎涉嫌制造传播谣言被拘 被押一级看守所 (Reporter Liu Hu detained for spreading rumors after exposing official corruption)
Beijing Morning News, August 26, 2013
http://news.eastday.com/c/20130826/u1a7619074.html
中国144地级市规划建200余新城新区被指贪大求快 (144 middle-sized city gov'ts plan to build more than 200 new districts, labeled "greedy" for trying to expand to much too fast)
Beijing News, August 26, 2013
http://news.163.com/13/0826/02/9760KCN700014AEE.html
Inner Mongolian herder beaten to death in land clash
Radio Free Asia, August 21, 2013
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/inner-mongolia-08232013160401.html
China's new migrant workers want more
Bloomberg, July 30, 2013
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-30/chinas-new-migrant-workers-want-more
中国政法大学组建“政府信息公开促进联盟” (China University of Political Science and Law sets-up the "Coalition to Promote Open Government Information")
Beijing News, August 25, 2013
http://news.163.com/13/0825/02/973DOUIV00014AED.html
学习时报刊文：法治是实现中国梦的制度基础 （Party Magazine article: Rule of law is the institutional foundation to realize the Chinese dream）
China News Service, August 26, 2013
http://www.bjnews.com.cn/news/2013/08/26/280328.html
人民日报评论员：用法治思维和法治方式反腐败 (Commentator for the People's Daily: Use rule of law "thinking" and "style" to combat corruption)
Xinhua, August 26, 2013
http://news.eastday.com/c/20130826/u1a7619242.html