An Airbus A320 of the German low-cost airline Germanwings crashed on Tuesday in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in southern France, local media reported citing a local police source.
China has remoulded itself from a winter sport minnow to a competitive force since its Winter Olympics debut in 1980.
Northern province of Shanxi has appointed several city and provincial officials in an effort to close large vacancies left by the anti-corruption drive.
China's State Administration of Cultural Heritage said it began necessary procedures to retrieve the 1,000-year-old stolen Buddha containing a mummified monk that is now in the possession of a Dutch private collector.
China's social security fund gained 139 billion yuan (22.7 billion U.S. dollars) from investment in 2014, with an 11.4 percent return on investment, the National Council for Social Security Fund said on Tuesday.
A total of 1.5 million Chinese officials reported their personal property and investments to the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 2014.
China is set to post GDP growth of 7.2 percent this year and 7 percent next, the Asian Development Bank said in its annual economic report on Tuesday.
China has been heating up twice as fast as the rest of the world since the middle of the 20th century, said an official of the China Meteorological Administration on March 23, the World Meteorological Day.
Hu Shihui, a former senior official of the Ministry of Science and Technology, has been expelled from the Communist Party of China (CPC) and dismissed from public office following an internal graft investigation.
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