Environment

环保组织呼吁增加“按日记罚”等重要环境制度 (Environmental Group Calls for Adding Significant Institutions such as Public Interest Litigation in Environmental Protection Law)
Legal Daily, September 28, 2012
http://news.sina.com.cn/green/news/roll/2012-09-28/150525275552.shtml

Hong Kong

Press Intimidation Alleged in HK as Apple Daily Photographer Faces Court
South China Morning Post, September 28, 2012
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1048857/press-intimidation-alleged-hk-apple-daily-photographer-faces-court

Human Rights Defenders

維權人士被勸離京 泄十八大開會日子 (Rights Activists Told to Leave Beijing, Hinting Days of 18th Party Congress)
Ming Pao, September 28, 2012
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/94/1/1/2783432/1.html

Police

Officers Trying Evil Eye to Get Rid of Vendors
Shanghai Daily, September 28, 2012
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/nsp/National/2012/09/28/Officers+trying+evil+eye+to+get+rid+of+vendors

Prisons

北京：家属、律师可预约会见在押的服刑罪犯 (Beijing: Family and Lawyers Can Arrange Meetings with Criminal Suspects in Detention)
Xinhua News Agency, September 28, 2012
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/index_article/content/2012-09/28/content_3878285.htm

Protests and Petitions

拆迁户抗议无安置遭警驱散 (Anhui: Police Disperse Protest by Evictees Who Had Not Been Relocated)
Radio Free Asia, September 27, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/protest-09272012093835.html

湖北村民與警衝突一死一傷 (1 Dead, 1 Injured in Clash between Hubei Villagers and Police)
Ming Pao, September 27, 2012
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/9/1/1/2782962/1.html

Society

Vanishing Languages Saved for Posterity
China Daily, September 28, 2012
http://english.sina.com/life/2012/0928/511395.html

Hong Kong

胡紅玉：國民教育課程指引失效 (Committee on Nat'l Education Chair Anna Hu: Official National Education Guidelines No Longer Effective)
NOW TV, September 27, 2012
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/2/1/1/2783187/1.html

Human Rights Defenders

China's Ai Weiwei Loses Tax Evasion Appeal
Al Jazeera, September 27, 2012
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/09/20129276220823628.html

Related:
浦志强：相信审理艾未未案件的法官会后悔 (Lawyer Pu Zhiqiang: I Believe the Judges Will Regret Trying the Case)
Radio France Internationale, September 27, 2012
http://www.chinese.rfi.fr/中国/20120927-浦志强：相信审理艾未未案件的法官会后悔

Internet

Chinese Internet Users to Overtake English Language Users by 2015
The Telegraph, September 26, 2012
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/broadband/9567934/Chinese-internet-users-to-overtake-English-language-users-by-2015.html

Law

Chinese Court Sentences Li Ang to Life in Prison for 2002 Murder of B.C. Student Amanda Zhao
The Province, September 26, 2012
http://www.theprovince.com/news/Chinese+court+sentences+life+prison+2002+murder+student+Amanda+Zhao/7305143/story.html

Related:
Family of Accused in Amanda Zhao Killing Says Canadian Trial Would Have Been More Just
The Globe and Mail, September 23, 2012
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/family-of-accused-in-amanda-zhao-killing-says-canadian-trial-would-be-more-just/article4562747/

Media

Director Reveals Mystery of China’s Film Censorship System on Weibo
Tea Leaf Nation, September 27, 2012
http://tealeafnation.com/2012/09/director-reveals-mystery-of-chinas-film-censorship-system-on-weibo/

Population

广州拟为部分家庭生二胎鬆绑 失独扶助标准提出 (Draft Guangzhou Measures Ease Restrictions on Second Child for Some Families)
Yangcheng Evening News, September 27, 2012
http://www.chinesetoday.com/zh/article/667450

Protests and Petitions

大规模游行示威是非常好的政治学习 (HK Papers: Large-scale Protests Are Excellent Study in Politics)
Radio France Internationale, September 27, 2012
http://www.chinese.rfi.fr/中国/20120927-大规模游行示威是非常好的政治学习

Public Health

150名“三无病人”长住精神病院 (Guangdong: 150 People with No Identification Papers, Residence, and Family to Contact Have Long Been Patients in Zhongshan's Psychiatric Institutions)
Southern Metropolis Daily, September 27, 2012
http://gcontent.oeeee.com/1/4d/14d9e8007c9b41f5/Blog/e29/512130.html

Civil Society

劳工NGO:成长的烦恼
Southern Daily, September 3, 2012
http://help.3g.163.com/12/0903/14/8AG1A9IF00964JEU.html

For an English translation, see:
Labor NGOs: Growing Pains
China Development Brief, September 25, 2012
http://www.chinadevelopmentbrief.cn/?p=1167

Hong Kong

《讀者》雜誌登陸香港 不談政治 (Mainland's Best-selling General Interest Mag Hits HK, Doesn't Cover Politics)
Ming Pao, September 26, 2012
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/94/1/1/2781498/1.html

Human Rights Defenders

Chinese Dissident Artist Says the Authorities Still Have His Passport
The New York Times, September 25, 2012
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/26/world/asia/ai-weiwei-says-chinese-authorities-still-have-his-passport.html

焦国标转监视居住对外隔绝 网民见胡佳只许院内交谈 (Former Professor Detained for Subversion, Jiao Guobiao, Put Under House Arrest at Non-Residential Location)
Radio Free Asia, September 25, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/sy2-09252012095639.html

Labor

广东珠海日企罢工漫延 工人要求资方加薪 (Zhuhai, Guangdong: Workers Continue Strike at Japanese Factory, Calling for Higher Wages)
Radio Free Asia, September 25, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/hc-09252012150421.html

For more information on strikes in China, see:
CLB Collective Labour Incidents Map
China Labour Bulletin
http://numble.com/clbmape.html

Society

China May Increase Fine for 'Inaccurate' Maps
ABC News, September 26, 2012
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-09-26/anchina-japan-map-dispute/4281134