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 | | The Tsingtao beer, the first-ever mainland alcoholic beverage to be imported here in five decades, has now reached 50,000 local restaurants, pubs, convenience stores and even betel nut vendors, attracting throngs and throngs of drinkers who get red-faced and tipsy with it. |
 | | A television commercial showing a bottle of Tsingtao being passed around by a group of Japanese surrounding a dancing and singing geisha is a classic stroke of advertising genius, according to experts. |
 | | Before Tsingtao was allowed in, it held an 83-per cent lead.Foreign beers, especially from the West, used to enjoy a 17 per cent share. |
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