Tou Chou-seng, Taipei's former ambassador to the Holy See, says the new Pope will continue contacts with Beijing but is unlikely to cut diplomatic ties with Taipei.

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Enter the all-purpose tou, the butchers and venders who mastered that practical but scary implement, and the substantial savings in fuel that the quick stir-frying of tou-cut food provided.

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Around his home village, Fuk Hing, which means Celebrating Fortune, he was also known by a nickname that he did not much care for: Lang Tou Ping, or Inveterate Gambler Ping.

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It was the tou the wide, well-honed, flat-edged whacker of a knife that Chinese cooks used for everything from butchering to dicing and fine slicing and the chopstick, which, in the Song era, came into common use.

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