Bilateral Ties

Coordination Needed to Succeed in Diaoyu
Global Times, August 16, 2012
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/727238.shtml

Hong Kong

梁：23条不应今届推 (CY Leung: Security Law Legislation Shouldn't Be Promoted This Session)
Ming Pao, August 16, 2012
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/2/1/1/2745946/1.html

Law

深圳拟立法授权城管处罚不文明行为 (Shenzhen Draft Regs Authorize Urban Management Officers to Penalize Uncivilized Behavior)
China Youth Daily, August 15, 2012
http://news.163.com/12/0815/11/88UO764E0001124J.html

Police

10名律师致信司法部与公安部建议调整劳教制度 (Lawyers Send Proposing Change in Reeducation-Through-Labor System)
Beijing Times, August 15, 2012
http://news.xinhuanet.com/legal/2012-08/15/c_112726033.htm

Related:
专家称劳教制度在部分地区成打击报复工具 (CASS Expert: Reeducation System Used in Some Places as a Tool of of Suppression and Retaliation)
The Beijing News, August 16, 2012
http://news.163.com/12/0816/02/890EADFR00014AED.html

Protests and Petitions

Migrants Protest Unpaid Wages in Lhasa
Radio Free Asia, August 15, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/wages-08152012150149.html

各地访民在京频频“被失踪” (Constant Reports of Petitioners across China "Going Missing" in Lead-up to 18th Party Congress)
Radio Free Asia, August 15, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/fm-08152012102545.html

Tibet

Tibetan Shot Dead in Protest
Radio Free Asia, August 15, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/mine-08162012000425.html

Economic Development

Urban-rural Income Gap Gets Bigger: Report
Xinhua News Agency, August 14, 2012
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-08/14/c_131785215.htm

Related:
《中国城市发展报告（2012）》正式发布 (2012 Annual Report on Urban Development Released)
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, August 14, 2012
http://www.ssap.com.cn/zw/220/18991.htm

Human Rights Defenders

调查人权状况访民被刑拘 侨民上访公安局内遭殴打 (Hunan: Petitioner Peng Lanlan Criminally Detained)
Radio Free Asia, August 14, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/rq-08142012093126.html

Internet

安徽界首公安局爆炸纯属编造 造谣者已被拘留 (Anhui Man Detained for Spreading Rumors Online that 7 Police Died in Explosion)
Hefei Evening News, August 14, 2012
http://news.qq.com/a/20120814/001838.htm

Police

浙江武义：涉案者派出所内自缢 相关责任民警被停职 (Zhejiang: Officers Suspended after Suspect Found Hanged in Police Station Bathroom)
Xinhua News Agency, August 14, 2012
http://news.xinhuanet.com/legal/2012-08/14/c_112722784.htm

Politics

China Planning More Women, Youth at Leadership-shift Conference
Bloomberg News, August 14, 2012
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-14/china-planning-more-women-youth-at-leadership-shift-conference.html

副中組部長﹕常委多少人 我也不知道 (CPC Organization Department Vice Head: Even I Don't Know How Many Members Will Be in the Politburo Standing Committee)
Ming Pao, August 15, 2012
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/94/1/1/2745084/1.html

State Security

From China to Albania, via Guantanamo
British Broadcasting Corporation, August 14, 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18631363

Tibet

Protest against Police Brutality
Radio Free Asia, August 14, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/brutality-08142012152819.html

Food Safety

Pesticide in Wine 'No Risk to Health'
SINA, August 14, 2012
http://english.sina.com/china/2012/0813/496216.html

Hong Kong

Hong Kong to Evict Last Occupy Sit-in in Asia
Al Jazeera, August 13, 2012
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/08/201281361645531700.html

香港成内地残障儿童"收容所" (Hong Kong a "Hospice" for Handicapped Mainland Children)
Deutsche Welle, August 13, 2012
http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,16162802,00.html

香港仔巴汉申特区护照被拒 (HK-born Pakistani Refused Naturalization, Passport)
Ming Pao, August 14, 2012
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/3/1/1/2744005/1.html

Human Rights Defenders

律师称湖南永州上访母亲不认可劳教撤销理由 (Lawyer: Mother Who Petitioned on Daughter’s Rape Case Does Not Approve of the Reason Given for Cancelling Her Order to Reeducation)
The Beijing News, August 14, 2012
http://gcontent.oeeee.com/d/ba/dba132f6ab6a3e3d/Blog/dbb/40133c.html

Law

中国劳教制度：搬动桌子的代价 (The Cost of Changing the Reeducation-Through-Labor System)
Radio France Internationale, August 14, 2012
http://www.chinese.rfi.fr/中国/20120814-中国劳教制度：搬动桌子的代价

Media

China’s Boldest Media: Losing the Battle?
China Media Project, August 14, 2012
http://cmp.hku.hk/2012/08/14/25926/

Related:
南方事变 (Change in the South)
iSun Affairs, August 9, 2012
http://www.isunaffairs.com/?p=10133

Politics

王立军案成都秘密开审 (Wang Lijun Secretly Tried in Chengdu)
Ming Pao, August 14, 2012
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/94/1/1/2744071/1.html

Population

Family Planning Policy Violators Revealed
Global Times, August 14, 2012
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/726808.shtml

Related:
Shandong “Qingdao Evening News” Disclosed Information on Individual with “Illegal Birth”
ChinaAid, August 12, 2012
http://www.chinaaid.org/2012/08/shandong-qingdao-evening-news-disclosed.html