Environment

China Faces Rubbish Problem
Financial Times, April 9, 2012
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/3ac0fc10-7ed7-11e1-b009-00144feab49a.html

Hong Kong

Legal Reforms 'Gathering Dust' in Slow System
South China Morning Post, April 12, 2012
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=1eeceaa9fa1a6310VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

梁振英：要亲商界，也要亲基层 (Leung Chun-ying: Pro-business and Pro-grass roots)
Southern Metropolis Daily, April 12, 2012
http://gcontent.oeeee.com/8/9f/89f03f7d02720160/Blog/c3d/ce34da.html

Internet

黑客宣称将对中国政府网站发起更多攻击 (Hackers Vow to Increase Attacks on China Govt Sites)
Radio Free Asia, April 11, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/m0410-nu-04112012101815.html

中国网络一度出现国内外联通困难 (Troubles Connecting to Internet Sites Abroad from within China)
British Broadcasting Corporation, April 12, 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/chinese_news/2012/04/120412_china_internet.shtml

Politics

China Carefully Managing Public Reaction to Bo Xilai's Downfall
McClatchy Newspapers, April 11, 2012
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/04/11/144825/china-carefully-managing-public.html

薄瓜瓜去向 媒體說法紛紜 (Media Explanations Divided on Bo Ouster)
Ming Pao, April 12, 2012
http://news.mingpao.com/20120412/gaa5.htm

Related:
「薄谷開來」有玄機 (Some Clue as to Why Bo's Wife Is Being Called "Bo-Fu Kailai")
Ming Pao, April 12, 2012
http://news.mingpao.com/20120412/gaa3.htm

Population

One-child Policy to Stay despite Experts' Critique
Shanghai Daily, April 11, 2012
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/nsp/National/2012/04/11/Onechild+policy+to+stay+despite+experts+critique

Protests and Petitions

Beijing Evictees Protest Attacks
Radio Free Asia, April 11, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/beijing-evictees-04112012105535.html

Economic Development

Push to Privatise SOEs 'a Foreign Plot'
South China Morning Post, April 11, 2012
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=906533c51dc96310VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Hong Kong

'Seeking Change, Maintaining Stability'
Xinhua News Agency, April 11, 2012
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-04/11/content_15023880.htm

Related news:
香港观察：地下党，您好 (HK Review: Greetings, Secret Communist Party Member)
British Broadcasting Corporation, April 10, 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/hong_kong_review/2012/04/120410_hkreview_secretcommunist.shtml

Human Rights Defenders

倪玉兰夫妇遭重判 数百警出动带走声援者 (Hundreds of Police Detain Ni Yulan's Supporters outside Court Building during Sentencing)
Radio Free Asia, April 10, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/ni-04102012110613.html

Related news:
欧盟呼吁中国政府立即释放倪玉兰 (EU Calls for Immediate Release of Ni Yulan)
Radio France Internationale, April 10, 2012
http://www.chinese.rfi.fr/中国/20120410-欧盟呼吁中国政府立即释放倪玉兰

Internet

网络＂造谣者＂扰乱社会秩序？　 央视亮剑警告鼠标危害稳定 (Do Online Rumor-mongerers Disturb Social Order?)
Radio Free Asia, April 10, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/web-04102012105709.html

North Korea

US to Push China on Refugees
Radio Free Asia, April 10, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/refugees-04102012180411.html

Politics

Fall of China Official Roils Chongqing, with Some Public Dissent
Los Angeles Times, April 11, 2012
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-china-bo-20120411,0,5332576.story

Protests and Petitions

網民：重慶示威警民衝突 (Clash between Police and People at Chongqing Demonstration)
Ming Pao, April 11, 2012
http://inews.mingpao.com/htm/INews/20120411/ca31122a.htm

Related news:
Bloody Protest against District Merger in C. China Continues: Groups
Kyodo, April 11, 2012
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20120411p2g00m0in100000c.html

Society

Chinese Science Journals Issue Ethics Codes
Xinhua News Agency, April 10, 2012
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-04/10/content_15017546.htm

Bilateral Ties

China Pressures Japan to Prevent Exiled Uighur Meeting
Reuters, April 9, 2012
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/09/us-china-japan-xinjiang-idUSBRE83806W20120409

Human Rights Defenders

China Rights Lawyer Jailed for 2 Years, 8 Months
Reuters, April 9, 2012
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/10/us-china-lawyer-trial-idUSBRE83902H20120410

For more on Ni Yulan, see:
Ni Yulan: Activism at a Glance
Human Rights in China, March 8, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6es0BxP8-A

官报批方励之：对抗无前途 (Party Paper Criticizes Recently Deceased Exiled Dissident Fang Lizhi: Confrontation Is Pointless)
Ming Pao, April 10, 2012
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/9/1/1/2631005/1.html

To read the opinion pieces, see:
顺历史而行，个人力量才能激活
Progress Making Dissidents More Obsolete
Global Times, April 9, 2012
CH: http://opinion.huanqiu.com/roll/2012-04/2592227.html
EN: http://www.globaltimes.cn/NEWS/tabid/99/ID/703829/Progress-making-dissidents-more-obsolete.aspx

Internet

China Shuts Political Websites in Crackdown
Agence France-Presse, April 6, 2012
http://news.yahoo.com/china-shuts-political-websites-crackdown-001455858.html

抵制網路謠言 陸協會發倡議書 (Internet Society Issues Proposal on Internet Rumors)
Radio Taiwan International, April 9, 2012
http://news.rti.org.tw/index_newsContent.aspx?nid=349523

Related information:
抵制网络谣言倡议书 (Proposal on Resisting Internet Rumors)
Internet Society of China, April 8, 2012
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2012-04/08/c_111750276.htm

June Fourth

Exiled Tiananmen Leaders Ask to Visit China
Agence France-Presse, April 7, 2012
http://news.yahoo.com/exiled-tiananmen-leaders-ask-visit-china-005132017.html

Related information:
王丹等人要求中国政府允许他们回国看看
Wang Dan and Others Appeal for Permission to Visit China
Human Rights in China, April 6, 2012
CH: http://www.hrichina.org/cn/content/5949
EN: http://www.hrichina.org/content/5948

Land Policy

最高法：补偿不公禁止强拆 (Supreme People's Court: No Fair Compensation, No Demolition)
The Beijing News, April 10, 2012
http://www.bjnews.com.cn/news/2012/04/10/192984.html

Related information:
关于办理申请人民法院强制执行国有土地上房屋征收补偿决定案件若干问题的规定
Supreme People's Court, April 9, 2012
http://legal.people.com.cn/GB/17608004.html

XUAR

Six Uyghurs on Terror List
Radio Free Asia, April 6, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/terror-list-04062012151240.html