Corruption (腐败)

甘肃400回民抗议村官侵吞集体资产 求见京官受阻 (400 Hui in Gansu protest embezzlement by gov’t official; police prevent complaints to Beijing)
Radio Free Asia, May 15, 2014
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/xl2-05152014114215.html

Environment (环境)

Chinese demand fueling rosewood extinction in Mekong region
Radio Free Asia, May 16, 2014
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/rosewood-05152014141450.html

被误读的“邻避效应”(Misunderstanding the NIMBY effect)
The Financial Times, May 16, 2014
http://www.ftchinese.com/story/001056269

Human Rights Defenders (人权卫士)

China: detained to death
The New York Review of Books, May 16, 2014
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/may/15/china-detained-to-death/

Police detain Qu Zhenhong, niece representing rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang, attorney says
South China Morning Post, May 16, 2014
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1512891/police-detain-qu-zhenhong-niece-representing-rights-lawyer-pu-zhiqiang

International Relations (Security, Trade and Investment) , 国际关系（安全，贸易和投资）

Anti-Chinese violence convulses Vietnam, pitting laborers against laborers
越南反华潮扩大，暴徒追打中国人
The New York Times, May 16, 2014
http://cn.nytimes.com/south-asia/20140516/c16vietnam-update/dual/

Related:
Vietnam riots: China accuses U.S. as military chiefs meet in Washington
The Guardian, May 15, 2014
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/16/us-chinese-military-leaders-clash-riots-vietnam

China warns Vietnam over deadly protests in territorial dispute
The Guardian, May 16, 2014
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/16/china-vietnam-protests-territorial-dispute

中国媒体谨慎报道越南事态 (China instructs media to report on Vietnam situation with caution)
British Broadcasting Corporation, May 16, 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/2014/05/140516_china_vietnam_press.shtml

June Fourth (六四)

China detains rights lawyer ahead of Tiananmen anniversary
中国人权律师唐荆陵遭警方拘留
Voice of America, May 16, 2014
EN: http://www.voanews.com/content/china-detains-rights-lawyer/1915790.html
CH: http://www.voachinese.com/content/china-dissdent-20140516/1915795.html

Related:
Rights lawyer Tang Jingling detained ahead of Tiananmen anniversary
South China Morning Post, May 16, 2014
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1513444/rights-lawyer-tang-jingling-detained-and-his-home-raided-ahead-tiananmen

China continues “mass round-up” of dissidents ahead of June 4
Radio Free Asia, May 15, 2014
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/roundup-05152014135312.html

Related:
Restrictions, detentions, and disappearances before June 4, 2014
Human Rights in China, May 2014
www.hrichina.org/en/restrictions-detentions-and-disappearances-june-4-2014

Protests and Petitions (抗议和请愿)

厦门马巷镇、贵港覃塘镇因征地发生警民冲突 (Protests in Fujian, Guangxi over land seizures lead to conflict with police)
Radio Free Asia, May 15, 2014
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/ql1-05152014110612.html

上海逾千工人连日罢工争福利 警察暴力清场孕妇被殴数十人被捕 (Strike at Dynacast Shanghai Ltd. over wages continues; police beat protestors, including a pregnant woman)
Radio Free Asia, May 15, 2014
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/xl1-05152014110459.html

XUAR (新疆维吾尔自治区)

3 Officials were killed in Xinjiang during Chinese President’s visit, report says
外媒报道新疆3名汉族官员遇刺身亡
The New York Times, May 16, 2014
http://cn.nytimes.com/china/20140516/c16xinjiang/dual/

Opinion (观点)

法律窗口: 从高瑜被刑拘到美国法的“事先限制”原则 (From Gao Yu’s criminal detention to the American principle of “prior restraint”)
Voice of America, May 15, 2014
http://www.voachinese.com/content/legal-window-gaoyu-20140515/1915507.html

六四前夕严打异见 习近平为何如此紧张? (In the pre-June Fourth anniversary crackdown, what is Xi Jinping afraid of?)
Voice of America, May 15, 2014
http://www.voachinese.com/content/june-4th-xijinping-20140515/1915575.html

Corruption (腐败)

一季度57厅官涉嫌贪腐落马 (57 bureau-level officials been sacked for graft in the first quarter of 2014)
Beijing News, May 15, 2014
www.bjnews.com.cn/news/2014/05/15/316932.html

Should China fear youth's sense of injustice?
The Telegraph, May 14, 2014
www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/china-business/10830230/China-should-fear-youths-sense-of-injustice.html

Former China head of GlaxoSmithKline charged with bribery
中国指控葛兰素英籍高管指使行贿
The New York Times, May 15, 2014
http://cn.nytimes.com/business/20140515/c15glaxo/dual/

Counterterrorism (反恐)

Islamist group claims China station bombing: SITE
Reuters, May 14, 2014
www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/14/us-china-xinjiang-idUSBREA4D07H20140514

Hukou (户口)

北大硕士是怎样变成黑户的？ (How did a Peking University grad student fall into the black hole of the hukou system?)
Radio Free Asia, May 14, 2014
www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/hc-05142014153240.html

农村户籍放不下背后是城市服务得不到 (Inadequate social services in cities for migrants make rural residents reluctant to give up rural hukou)
Changjiang Net, May 14, 2014
news.cjn.cn/cjsp/rd/201405/t2472262.htm

“禁设户籍门槛”应为规则标配 (New State Council notice exempts larger cities from prohibition of hukou-based discrimination towards university graduates' employment)
China Radio International, May 14, 2014
gb.cri.cn/42071/2014/05/14/882s4540929.htm

Human Rights Defenders (人权卫士)

律师见刘荻屡被拒刘父担忧 两传媒人被捕涉浦志强案？ (Lawyer barred from meeting detained activist Liu Di, detention of two journalists may stem from interviewing Pu Zhiqiang)
Radio Free Asia, May 14, 2014
www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/sy2-05142014105933.html

Police raid activist dinner party in China
Associated Press, May 14, 2014
muscatinejournal.com/news/world/asia/police-raid-activist-dinner-party-in-china/article_24780095-af40-5ec1-a5e9-26b19575fb51.html

Related:
Restrictions, detentions, and disappearances before June 4, 2014
Human Rights in China, May 2014
www.hrichina.org/en/restrictions-detentions-and-disappearances-june-4-2014

Information Control (信息控制)

Detained Chinese journalists forced to make televised confessions
Bloomberg Businessweek, May 14, 2014
www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-05-14/detained-chinese-journalists-forced-to-make-televised-confessions

International Relations (Security, Trade and Investment), 国际关系（安全，贸易和投资）

Up to 21 dead, doctor says, as anti-China riots spread in Vietnam
Reuters, May 15, 2014
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/15/us-vietnam-china-riots-casualties-idUSBREA4E03Y20140515?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews

Related:
中国外交部发言人指责越南政府对反华势力和反华活动采取纵容和包庇态度 (China MFA accuses Hanoi of catering to anti-Chinese protests)
Radio France Internationale, May 15, 2014
http://rfi.my/1g8JEjO

越反华暴动延3分1省 未经证实死20华人 (Violence in Vietnam spreads to a third of provinces; 20 unconfirmed Chinese deaths)
Radio Free Asia, May 15, 2014
http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/vietnam-anti-chinese-05152014103608.html?encoding=simplified&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

June Fourth (六四)

大家谈中国：那个春夏之交我的1989 (My 1989: Chinese citizens remember the fateful months between spring and summer)
British Broadcasting Corporation, May 14, 2014
www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/comments_on_china/2014/05/140514_coc_my1989.shtml

For more information about June Fourth, see:
June Fourth at 25: resisting enforced amnesia, building a just future
纪念六四25周年：抵制强迫失忆，建设公正的未来
Human Rights in China, April 10, 2014
EN: www.hrichina.org/en/june-fourth-25-resisting-enforced-amnesia-building-just-future
CH: www.hrichina.org/chs/xin-wen-gong-zuo/zhong-guo-ren-quan-jian-xun/ji-nian-liu-si-25zhou-nian-di-zhi-qiang-po-shi-yi-jian

Migrants (农民工)

China's young migrant workers earn more, send less home
Bloomberg Businessweek, May 13, 2014
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-05-13/chinas-young-migrant-workers-earn-more-send-less-home

Related:
Real wages for China’s migrant workers stagnate as cost of living escalates
China Labour Bulletin, May 14, 2014
www.clb.org.hk/en/content/real-wages-china’s-migrant-workers-stagnate-cost-living-escalates

Religion (宗教)

Beijing urged to respect religious freedom amid “anti-church” crackdown
The Telegraph, May 14, 2014
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10829581/Beijing-urged-to-respect-religious-freedom-amid-anti-church-crackdown.html

See statement:
"Purdue Consensus on Religious Freedom" with signatories
Center on Religion and Chinese Society, Purdue University, May 14, 2014
www.purdue.edu/crcs/itemMeetings/purdueSymposium/purdueSymposium2014/consensus.html

XUAR (新疆维吾尔自治区)

Chinese officials head to countryside to try to win over locals
The Wall Street Journal, May 15, 2014
blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/05/15/chinese-officials-head-to-countryside-to-try-to-win-over-locals/?mod=chinablog

Business and Economics (商业和经济)

Why China could be huge for Facebook, even though it’s banned
Quartz, May 13, 2014
http://qz.com/208811/why-china-could-be-huge-for-facebook-even-though-its-banned/

Corruption (腐败)

Former head of GlaxoSmithKline in China is accused of bribery
The New York Times, May 13, 2014
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/15/business/international/glaxosmithkline-china.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

China puts brass on trial in fight against military corruption
National Public Radio, May 14, 2014
http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/05/14/310695052/china-puts-brass-on-trial-in-fight-against-military-corruption?sc=17&f=1001&utm_source=iosnewsapp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=app