Bilateral Ties

US Ambassador Sees China Rights Worsening
Agence France-Presse, January 17, 2012
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/us-ambassador-sees-china-rights-worsening-062814812.html

Human Rights Defenders

Veteran Chinese Dissident Indicted for "Subversive" Poem
Reuters, January 17, 2012
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/17/us-china-dissident-idUSTRE80G09520120117

Related news:
朱虞夫再被控律师领取起诉书 (Lawyer Receives Written Indictment after Zhu Yufu Again Indicted)
Radio Free Asia, January 16, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/dissidents_jail-01162012101943.html

Internet

China's Micro Blogs Help Fight Corruption
Xinhua News Agency, January 17, 2011
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-01/17/content_14462135.htm

Labor

内地清欠农工资十九亿元 (Migrant Workers Paid 1.9b in Back Pay)
Ming Pao, January 16, 2012
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/32/1/1/2551529/1.html

Population

我国去年大陆城镇人口数量首次超过农村 (In 2011, China's Urban Population Larger than Rural for First Time)
Xinhua News Agency, January 17, 2012
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/9/1/1/2552419/1.html

Protests and Petitions

Chinese Revolt Leader Appointed Village Chief
Voice of America, January 16, 2012
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Chinese-Revolt-Leader-Appointed-Village-Chief-137440323.html

Thousands of Workers Protest at Sanyo's China Plant
Reuters, January 16, 2012
http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120116/bs_nm/us_china_protest

抗议车票难买 深圳民工堵路 (Shenzhen: Migrant Workers Block Road to Protest Difficulty in Purchasing Tickets Home for Spring Festival)
Ming Pao, January 17, 2012
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/9/1/1/2551779/1.html

Public Health

China Cancer Village Tests Law against Pollution
Reuters, January 16, 2012
http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120116/hl_nm/us_china_pollution_lawsuit

Bilateral Ties

温家宝：支持阿拉伯之春人民变革诉求 (Premier Wen Jiabao: We Support the People's Demand for Change in the Arab Spring)
Radio France Internationale, January 16, 2012
http://www.chinese.rfi.fr/中国/20120116-温家宝：支持阿拉伯之春人民变革诉求

Environment

Arid Capital to Get Water from Key Project
China Daily, January 14, 2012
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-01/14/content_14444639.htm

Hong Kong

Hong Kong Mothers Protest Growing Number of Women from China Giving Birth in Hong Kong
Taiwan News, January 16, 2012
http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/etn/news_content.php?id=1815896

Protests and Petitions

Village Has New Party Branch after Protests
Xinhua News Agency, January 15, 2012
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-01/15/content_14449531.htm

Related news:
烏坎村設重新選舉籌備小組 (Wukan Village Forms Election Preparatory Group)
Ming Pao, January 15, 2012
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/32/1/1/2550200/1.html

访民成功解救被关在驻京办黑监狱的访民 (Petitioners Retrieve Fellow Petitioners Locked in Beijing Black Jail)
Radio Free Asia, January 15, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/fang-01152012173456.html

Rural Issues

农民宅基地使用权任何人都无权剥夺 (Premier Wen: No One Has the Right to Deny Rural Residents Their Land Use Rights Where They Live)
Xinhua News Agency, January 16, 2012
http://gcontent.oeeee.com/8/9f/89f03f7d02720160/Blog/87d/323a50.html

Related information:
中国农业和农村的发展道路 (The Path of Development For Agricultural and Rural China)
Qiushi, January 16, 2012
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2012-01/16/c_122590339.htm

Taiwan

Taiwan Backs Ma, But Unease over China Remains
British Broadcasting Corporation, January 14, 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16563725

Tibet

Chinese Forces Reportedly Open Fire on Protesting Tibetans
The New York Times, January 15, 2012
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/world/asia/chinese-forces-reportedly-open-fire-on-protesting-tibetans.html

XUAR

Unending Plight for Uyghur Petitioners
Radio Free Asia, January 15, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/petitioners-01152012170946.html

Hong Kong

Seven in Court over Vote-rigging
South China Morning Post, January 13, 2012
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=5848295a832d4310VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Human Rights Defenders

China Dissident Author Is Allowed to Move to U.S.
The Wall Street Journal, January 13, 2012
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204542404577156732239846176.html

Related news:
"余杰们"为什么逃离中国 (Why Yu Jie et al Leave China)
Deutsche Welle, January 12, 2012
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15660824,00.html

李金平发表公开信讲述被关进精神病院的经过 (Beijing Activist Li Jinping Releases Open Letter Detailing His Experience Being Committed to a Psychiatric Institution)
Radio Free Asia, January 12, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/hc-01122012151910.html

Related information:
Rights Defender Recounts Incarceration in Psychiatric Hospital
李金平讲述被关精神病院的经历
Human Rights in China, January 11, 2012
EN: http://www.hrichina.org/content/5769
CH: http://www.hrichina.org/cn/content/5770

Gender

Woman Flees Forced Sterilization
Radio Free Asia, January 12, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/child-01122012145358.html

Internet

山西一警察兼营贴吧 疑因删帖收费获刑
Caixin, January 12, 2012
http://china.caixin.com/2012-01-12/100347996.html

Labor

Toy Factory Protest in Dongguan
Radio Free Asia, January 12, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/factory-01122012182545.html