Our water may have lost some of its tang but it is clean.

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Not only could they add and subtract up to 20, but many could recite Tang and Song dynasty poetry.

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But this says more about Mr Tang than about Mr Leung's common touch.

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The movie is done with crispness, vigor, down-home humor, and an over-all tang of good feeling, but the pushing of buttons is the work of extraordinary calculation.

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Their relationship is touchingly drawn, as they take excursions in the rain, longing for the tastes of home and the tang of the Mediterranean, but grateful that nobody is shooting at them.

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But it didn't seem likely that Shanghai Tang, one of Asia's few homegrown luxury retailers, would face the same kind of rent squeeze.

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Ghostface Killah and Raekwon made their marks on hip-hop and still do today, but they enjoyed more successes as members of the Wu-Tang Clan.

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But in The Lab, young Chinese rappers like Red Star's Tang King are learning about music and starting to make their own claims about Chinese style.

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The skin is fried to a crisp, but the flesh beneath remains delicate, and the accompanying nuoc mam sauce vibrates with the tang of sweet basil, chili, and cilantro.

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Mr Tang's case, however, has gained attention not only for the scale of damages sought, but in having led to a nasty row with neighbouring Malaysia.

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