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Summer PalaceArchive of news articles on external web sites. For mongabay-specific articles, please see http://www.mongabay.com/xml-list.htmlEden Prairie NewsWe went to the Summer Palace which was fantastic. It is hard to describe the beauty of this place – with the many colors and intricate designs of the RESTAURANT ROW - 25 Mar 2009 BusinessWorld OnlineSUMMER PALACE’s new dim sum chef, Liew Soon Meng, has come out with a fresh take on the restaurant’s dim sum selections. These include fried mango shrimp Sunny Day Sets Fire - Summer Palace Album - Mar 20, 2009 Contactmusic.comAnd on the evidence of Summer Palace, they've got it bad. They're not exactly the only game in this particular town, but let's face it The Little Ones' Chinese bronze heads' auction ruse poses problems for art market - Mar 3, 2009 Los Angeles TimesThey are part of an original set of 12, representing the Chinese zodiac signs, that graced a clock fountain at the Old Summer Palace before it was sacked by Sunny Day Sets Fire - Summer Palace - Mar 12, 2009 Clickmusic...'Summer Palace' is certainly aptly named. It feels like the soundtrack to a long and lazy day spent drinking sugary cocktails on the common - the album is Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s Summer Palace conservation under cloud - Mar 8, 2009 SikhSangat NewsA view of the fountains dug up opposite the summer palace of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in the Ram Bagh complex in Amritsar. Amritsar, Punjab: Delay of the Visit to 14th Dalai Lama's last residence in Lhasa - Mar 10, 2009 Xinhua..."However, no matter how many tourists come here, the Takten Migyur Potrang, or the New Summer Palace, for the 14th Dalai Lama is always one of the most Maharaja’s summer palace turned into a hub of opportunism - Mar 4, 2009 Punjab Heritage NewsMorning walkers are surprised to see vegetable vendors set shop at Ram Bagh Garden, the summer palace of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, here. Chinese art market on tenterhooks amid bronzes row - Mar 9, 2009 Reuters...which were stolen from the Old Summer Palace in 1860, Chinese authorities have slapped strict checks on all future imports and exports by Christie's, Richard Morrison on art auctions - Mar 6, 2009 Times OnlineIt was the winning bid for two 18th-century bronzes, once part of a set of 12 animal figureheads on a water-clock in the Summer Palace outside Beijing. Chinese 'panda' artist slams YSL sale of relics - Mar 18, 2009 AFP...on Wednesday slammed last month's controversial sale at a Paris auction of two bronze animal heads looted from China's imperial Summer Palace in 1860. Peaceful palace where rebels plotted - Mar 12, 2009 Shanghai DailyOne of the most popular places in Norbu Lingka is the Takten Migyur Potrang, or the New Summer Palace, for the 14th Dalai Lama, said Liu Rongquan, From the palace of Shush - Mar 9, 2009 Jerusalem PostShush was to be his great summer palace, and we craftsmen had been summoned to restore its ancient glories. We worked hard and well, and the emperor was A Sober Look at Sorting out the Cultural Relic Scandal - Mar 17, 2009 Economic ObserverBy Zhou Wenhan A rabbit and a rat removed from the Old Summer Palace; twenty-eight million euros in compensation; an invasion of Anglo-French into imperial A dangerous balance - Mar 12, 2009 Asia Times OnlineOn the night of October 6, French units diverted from the main attack force towards the Old Summer Palace, known in Chinese as Yuanmingyuan. Messing With Their Heads - Mar 20, 2009 East Oahu SunThey were originally mounted on human figures as part of an elaborate fountain installed in Beijing's Yuanmingyuan, or Old Summer Palace. From hero to zero, why Cai? - Mar 21, 2009 Pakistan Daily MailHe later refused to pay for the bronzes, stolen from Beijing's Old Summer Palace during the Second Opium War in 1860. In a subsequent interview with the Exit Suharto - Mar 21, 2009 Japan Focus...an emergency cabinet meeting was being held, broke up the meeting and arrested fifteen ministers while Sukarno fled to his ‘summer palace’ in Bogor. Fifty Years of Exile - Mar 19, 2009 Wall Street Journal...grounds of Norbulingka, an institute near Dharmsala devoted to Tibetan arts and culture, and named after the Dalai Lama's summer palace in Lhasa. From The Times - Mar 13, 2009 Times Online...the Alcazaba fort, the Nazrid Royal Palace, with its exquisite Court of the Lions, and the 14th-century Generalife summer palace with formal gardens. No improved offer for Kuqi - Mar 20, 2009 South London Press Today...which runs out this summer. Palace did table a new deal in January but the former Blackburn and Ipswich striker, who has scored nine goals this season, Artnet News - Mar 3, 2009 ArtnetAs for their history, the heads disappeared during the Second Opium War, when the Summer Palace was looted by Anglo-French troops in 1860, an unpleasant North Korea: Kim Yong Il Visits Various Parts of Beijing - Mar 23, 2009 ISRIA (subscription)Next day they visited the North Park of the Chinese National Park and the Summer Palace in Beijing. At the end of the visit the premier made an entry in the Countries doing more to get looted treasures back - Mar 16, 2009 eTaiwan NewsForeign scholars say the 1860 ransacking of the emperor's Summer Palace gardens has taken on greater meaning as China grows stronger and more assertive. YSL Partner Offers China Art for Human Rights - Mar 12, 2009 The Epoch Times...“If they do that, I would be very happy to go myself and bring these two Chinese heads to put them in the Summer Palace in Beijing. The Dalai Lama: still campaigning for the rights of his people ... - Mar 16, 2009 Irish Times1959, when the 14th Dalai Lama, fearing incarceration by the Chinese, escaped incognito from the heavily guarded Norbulingka summer palace. About this author: - Mar 13, 2009 Seeking AlphaFirst there was the murky saga of the Yves Saint-Laurent auction at Christie's in Paris, over Manchu animal heads made in Europe for the Summer Palace, China: Last minute break in Beijing - Mar 9, 2009 TravelBite.co.uk...to the 2008 Olympics and filled with fascinating sights including the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, the Summer Palace and the Great Wall of China. Foothill, De Anza planning trip to Beijing, Shanghai - Mar 2, 2009 San Jose Mercury News...twin rooms in university student residences or tourist class hotels, visits to the Great Wall, Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven and the Summer Palace. Longing to ride the next train to Lhasa - Mar 20, 2009 The Canberra TimesThe Dalai Lama fled the Norbulingka Park and Summer Palace on the night of March 17, 1959, a week after his people's failed uprising against the Chinese. Saved by the monuments - Mar 21, 2009 Armenian ReporterAt one time there was a two-story summer palace, a bath complex, a church built in 897, and a cemetery on the grounds. All that is left of the entire Once a knight - Mar 20, 2009 The AustralianSurfacing is a blessing and I decide to go to Mdina, via the restored summer palace at Verdala. (Malta is so compact that you can get almost anywhere by Enjoy Bangkok in a Week with China Tour Travel Specialist Ritz ... - Mar 20, 2009 PR Web (press release)...well-known tourist destinations such as Dam Nern Saduak Floating Market, Ayuthaya Ancient City, Bang Pa In Summer Palace and the legendary River Kwai. China luxury hotel glut too much of good thing - Mar 8, 2009 Chicago TribuneAdjacent to the Summer Palace is the new Aman hotel, part of which is located in original imperial guesthouses. The cheapest room is $480 in the off-season. URBAN GREEN - Mar 4, 2009 บางกอกโพสBut Beijing - the ancient city with breathtaking gardens like the Summer Palace or Beihai Park near the Forbidden City - has a soft spot for parks and Chinese bidder thwarts auction of Chinese bronzes - Mar 18, 2009 Calgary Herald...latest twist in a 150-year-old drama over the bronze rabbit and rat heads, stolen by British and French forces from the imperial Summer Palace in 1860. Weird, wild and wacky - Mar 18, 2009 China DailyPeking's penguins flock to holes chiseled in the glacial crusts of ice pocking Houhai, the Summer Palace's Kunming Lake, the Kunyu Canal and the bodies of China provides inspiration - Mar 17, 2009 AndersonValleyPost.com...along with stops at Tian'amen Square, the Tower of Heaven, the royal Summer Palace and a trip previously mentioned to a section of the Great Wall. China Seeks Return of Relics; Dragon Head in Taiwan, Daily Says - Mar 12, 2009 BloombergThe animal-head bronzes, of a rabbit and a rat, were taken from the Summer Palace in 1860 by invading foreign troops. They were severed from a water-clock The Dalai Lama’s bodyguard Dhonden Wangchunk - Mar 10, 2009 Express Buzz...‘‘I was serving as arms master at Morbulingka (Summer Palace) of his Holiness when Chinese troops began the invasion and started firing indiscriminately at Yves Saint Laurent Auction At Christie’s Makes $483.8 Million - Mar 17, 2009 Antiques and the Arts OnlineThe top lots were exceptionally rare bronze heads of a rat and a rabbit made for the Zodiac Fountain of the Emperor Qianlong's Summer Palace in China, China Says Qing Bronzes Sale Is a Blot on France’s Reputation - Mar 4, 2009 BloombergThe heads were severed from a water clock in Beijing’s Summer Palace. Addressing Berge, Li said he’s hurt the interest of his country and the dignity of the Say 'aloha' to Hainan, Hawaii in China - Mar 3, 2009 Telegraph.co.uk...into the Ritz-Carlton, a vast complex with 950 smiling staff and countless infinity pools, fountains and corridors inspired by Beijing's Summer Palace. China: Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi Meets the Press - Mar 9, 2009 ISRIA (subscription)TVB: French company Christie's insisted on going ahead with the auction of two bronze fountain heads from China's old Summer Palace. World briefs: President of Guinea-Bissau assassinated - Mar 3, 2009 Newsday...which disappeared when French and British forces sacked and burned the imperial Summer Palace outside Beijing in 1860 at the end of the second Opium War Tiananmen Square - Mar 12, 2009 New StatesmanThe cab driver had told me that he grew up in a people’s commune next to the Summer Palace, and that his wife was a sanitary worker in the district. National Treasures For Sale - Mar 10, 2009 Forbes...in 1860 from the imperial Summer Palace near Beijing but acquired legally by the recently deceased Yves Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Bergé. Travel for free by renting out your home for the Kentucky Derby - Mar 15, 2009 Examiner.com...we're just looking to rent it (unless Queen Elizabeth is the one offering a swap--and I don't want to summer palace, queenie, I'm talking Buckingham). 英国é€?露æˆ?龙大哥站出æ?¥ä¸ºä¸å›½è¢«æŽ 文物而战 - Mar 2, 2009 新軍事網The bronze rat and rabbit, removed when British and French forces sacked the Old Summer Palace in 1860, were sold for =14 million (£12.5 million) each to My Life In Travel: Jeffrey Archer - Mar 6, 2009 IndependentI wasn't sure what to expect, but the Hermitage and the Summer Palace are two of the most staggering buildings I've ever seen. I certainly want to see them [an error occurred while processing this directive] archives | news | XML / RSS feed | featured
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