Beijing's Forbidden City has been illuminated and opened to the general public for night visits for the first time to celebrate China's Lantern Festival. As night fell, visitors were welcomed by a ...

For the first time in 94 years, Beijing’s Palace Museum, commonly known as the Forbidden City, opened its doors to the public after dark – and with spectacular results. The special event, taking place ...

When Ho Puay-peng first visited Beijing’s Forbidden City in the late 1980s, the Singaporean architect saw many of the historic courtyards used for storage, filled with garbage, and occupied by danwei ...

Edozie Udeze, just back from Beijing, the capital city of the People’s Republic of China, writes on the allure and beauty that make the city one of the most visited cities in the world The walls of ...

The Forbidden City not only witnessed the rise and fall of dynasties but also served as a veritable ground of palace ...

Six travel agencies in Beijing were suspended for scalping tickets to the Forbidden City on Wednesday. This marks the first major enforcement action after the country’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism ...

Imagine a two-center Beijing, with the central Forbidden City and city walls intact, and high rises and skyscrapers flourishing at the western part of Beijing. This vision may be unimaginable for many ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Qianlong Garden, the private garden complex of Emperor Qianlong within the Forbidden City in Beijing, has officially reopened to the public at the end of September 2025, after over ...

A scale model of the Forbidden City, viewed facing south. ImageCourtesy of Flickr user Can Pac Swire (licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0) The new name was only the beginning of Zhu Di’s grand vision for ...

In the heart of Beijing, China’s bustling capital, hidden behind towering red walls and wrapped in the still waters of a protective moat, lies a city within a city—a world that, for centuries, ...