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2009-12-06T17:16:38Z

President Barack Obama tours the Forbidden City Beijing, China - 17.11.09

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China US Obama

2009-11-17T11:02:20Z

U.S. President Barack Obama during his tour of the Forbidden City in Beijing, China Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Obama tours Forbidden City

2010-02-24T04:14:42Z

<div id="subtitle">WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Obama tours Forbidden City, says former imperial palace is magnificent</div><div><p>Playing tourist on his first visit ever to China, President Barack Obama drew a chilly comparison between the Chinese capital and his Beijing, China - Visitors look at the treasures displayed in the Cartier treasures exhibition in the Forbidden City....

The new Mercedes-Benz S-Class S600 car is displayed at its launch at Tai Miao in Beijing

2009-08-28T07:40:52Z

The new Mercedes-Benz S-Class S600 car is displayed at its launch at Tai Miao, the imperial ancestral temple in the Forbidden City, in Beijing August 28, 2009. REUTERS/Jason Lee (CHINA...

Snowfall in Beijing

2009-04-21T02:15:56Z

People visit the Forbidden City partially covered in snow in Beijing, 19 February 2009.. Chinese authorties said on 19 February 2009. that the snowfall was a product of cloud seeding in an attempt to end a heavy drought currently affecting a large part of the country

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China to lend relics to Taiwan: state media

2010-03-01T19:50:16Z

<div><p>China's national museum will lend some prized cultural artifacts to Taiwan's Palace Museum in what could become a long-hoped for exchange programme between the two rivals, officials and media said Monday.</p><p>The National Palace Museum, located in Beijing, China - Forbidden City, Beiking

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Chinese emperor's lavish quarters are restored

2010-03-01T22:48:09Z

<div id="subtitle">Chinese emperor's once-opulent retirement home, long neglected, has its luster restored</div><div><p>In between dispatching armies to secure the empire and building China into the richest country in the world, the Qianlong Emperor commissioned a retirement home for himself in the Forbidden City palace.</p>&a...

China Restored Palace

2009-04-24T13:42:43Z

A Chinese traditional music performer waits before her performance inside Juanqinzhai, a newly restored 18th-century royal studio which includes a private theater, in the Forbidden City in Beijing, China, Monday, Nov. 10, 2008. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

IBM builds online version of China's famed Forbidden City

2010-02-28T03:48:09Z

<div><p>IBM on Friday opened online doors to a virtual version of the famed Forbidden City in China that served for centuries as an exclusive realm for the nation's emperors.</p><p>The US technology colossus spent more tha...