Environment

Yunnan City Begins New 3-year Plan to Clean Polluted Lake
Want China Times, October 12, 2012
http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20121012000076&cid=1505

Hong Kong

兩示威者去年六四非法集結緩刑 (Two Activists Given Suspended Sentences after Unapproved Leading March after June Fourth Vigil)
Now News, October 12, 2012
http://news.now.com/home/local/player?newsId=48076

Human Rights

美国会报告：中国民众维权要求高涨 政府保障人权不力 (US Report: Rights Defense Actions by Chinese People Heightens, Gov't Protection of Rights Not Sufficient)
Radio Free Asia, October 11, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/yl-10112012160815.html

Related:
2012 Annual Report
Congressional-Executive Commission on China
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-112shrg76190/pdf/CHRG-112shrg76190.pdf

Human Rights Defenders

Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel Pick
Foreign Policy, October 11, 2012
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/10/11/liu_xiaobo_s_nobel_pick

Related:
莫言：期望尽快释放刘晓波 (Mo Yan: I Hope Liu Xiaobo Can Be Released as Soon as Possible)
Radio France Internationale, October 12, 2012
http://www.chinese.rfi.fr/node/118758

环保人士刘福堂被控非法出版：“盈利”300余元 (Environmental Activist Liu Futang Charged with Publishing Illegally)
Hainan Online, October 12, 2012
http://news.163.com/12/1012/10/8DJVOFHU0001124J.html

Related:
Chinese Environmental Activist Goes on Trial over Books
The Guardian, October 11, 2012
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/11/chinese-activist-trial-books

Law

Courts with Chinese Characteristics
Foreign Affairs, October 11, 2012
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/138178/jerome-alan-cohen/courts-with-chinese-characteristics

Politics

官媒高調撐政改 疑高層放風 (Leaks from the Highers-up Suspected as Official Media Talks Up Political Reform)
Ming Pao, October 12, 2012
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/9/1/1/2796608/1.html

Society

Nobel Renews Debate in China
The Hindu, October 12, 2012
http://www.chinese.rfi.fr/node/118758

XUAR

Uyghur Family Home Bulldozed
Radio Free Asia, October 11, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/bulldozed-10112012145624.html

Corruption

Student Files Lawsuits against Govts
China Daily, October 10, 2012
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-10/10/content_15808191.htm

Related:
湖北一大学生起诉拒绝公开“微笑局长”工资两机构 (Hubei University Student Sues Two Gov't Agencies Who Refused to Provide Info on Wages of Controversial Official)
China Youth Daily, October 10, 2012
http://zqb.cyol.com/html/2012-10/10/nw.D110000zgqnb_20121010_6-03.htm

Hong Kong

本港法官应了解国家与香港关係 (Former Justice Minister Elsie Leung: HK Judicial Officers Need to Understand the Relation between HK and Mainland)
Sing Pao, October 11, 2012
http://www.singpao.com/xw/yl/czjt/201210/t20121011_394221.html

For responses from HK law groups, see:
The Law Society of Hong Kong Press Statement 香港律師會聲明
http://edblog.hkedcity.net/siu/2012/10/11/the-law-society-of-hong-kong-press-statement/

HKBA Press Statement in Response to Recent Remarks Made by Ms Elsie Leung 香港大律師公會聲明
http://edblog.hkedcity.net/siu/2012/10/10/hkba-press-statement-in-response-to-recent-remarks-made-by-ms-elsie-leung/

Human Rights Defenders

廖亦武：“自由是个缓慢的过程” (Liao Yiwu: Freedom Is a Slow Process)
Deutsche Welle, October 11, 2012
http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,16296840,00.html

Liao Yiwu on freedom:
为他人的自由而写
Writing for the Freedom of Others
May 11, 2012
CH: http://www.hrichina.org/cn/crf/article/6174
EN: http://www.hrichina.org/crf/article/6142

Labor

Worker's Injury Casts Harsh New Light on Foxconn and China
Reuters, October 10, 2012
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/10/us-china-foxconn-worker-idUSBRE8991M620121010

Land Policy

Local Government Debt Fuels China Forced Evictions Rise: Amnesty
Reuters, October 10, 2012
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/11/us-china-evictions-idUSBRE89A05420121011

Related:
Standing Their Ground: Thousands Face Violent Eviction in China
Amnesty Internationale, 2012
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA17/001/2012/en

Politics

十八大綜合症 (18th Party Congress Syndrome)
iSun Affairs, October 11, 2012
http://www.isunaffairs.com/?p=11124

Public Health

Fairer Diagnoses Demanded
China Daily, October 11, 2012
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-10/11/content_15808480.htm

Related:
精神卫生日民间致函政府 受害者500封信警示“两院” (Civil Society Sends Letters to Government on World Mental Health Day Calling for Constraints on "Institutionalization" to Be Placed in Upcoming Mental Health Law)
Radio Free Asia, October 10, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/ql1-10102012103428.html

Human Rights Defenders

官員避答劉霞犯何法 (Official Avoids Answering Journalist's Question: What Crime Did Liu Xia Commit for which She's Being Kept under House Arrest)
Ming Pao, October 10, 2012
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/9/1/1/2794816/1.html

Inner Mongolia

内蒙牧民抗议官员出租牧场敛财被殴 (Herders Beaten at Protest against Lease of Herding Land)
Radio Free Asia, October 9, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/ql1-10092012102702.html

Land Policy

濟南西客站8戶遭強拆居民2年未獲拆遷補償 (Jinan: 8 Relocatees Still Have yet to Receive Compensation 2 Years on Despite Petitions, Suits, and Complaints)
China Economic Weekly, October 9, 2012
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/9/1/1/2794081/1.html

Law

Paper Praising China's Legal Reforms 'Is Whitewash'
South China Morning Post, October 10, 2012
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1057309/paper-praising-chinas-legal-reforms-whitewash

重庆大学生村官转发微博被劳教申诉案开庭 (Chongqing Hears Appeal of University Student/Village Official Ordered to 2 Years of Reeducation for Reposting Microblog Posts Said to "Attack" the Government)
Xinhua News Agency, October 10, 2012
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/gallery/content/2012-10/10/content_3890172.htm

Related:
任建宇 被劳教的村官 (Ren Jianyu: Village Official Ordered to Reeducation-Through-Labor)
Southern People Weekly, September 5, 2012
http://gcontent.oeeee.com/d/ba/dba132f6ab6a3e3d/Blog/7fc/acad20.html

李方平谈劳教制度改革 (Rights Defense Lawyer Li Fangping Speaks with BBC on Reform of the Reeducation-Through-Labor System)
British Broadcasting Corporation, October 9, 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/multimedia/2012/10/121009_audio_lifangping.shtml

行政复议法修订列入计划 两版修订稿提交法制办 (Amendments to Administrative Review Law in Legislative Program)
Legal Daily, October 10, 2012
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/index_article/content/2012-10/10/content_3888820.htm

Multilateral

China Calls for Unified Standards on Combating Terrorism
Xinhua News Agency, October 10, 2012
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-10/10/content_15805315.htm

Related:
常驻联合国副代表王民大使在第67届联大关于“消除国际恐怖主义的措施”议题的发言
Statement by H.E. Ambassador Wang Min Deputy Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations At the 67th Session of the UN General Assembly On Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism
October 9, 2012
CH: http://www.china-un.org/chn/hyyfy/t977674.htm
EN: http://www.china-un.org/eng/hyyfy/t977687.htm