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Man-new

energy drink brand of Taiwan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 11, 2024
Entity authorityQ18658473 ↗
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Man-new (Chinese: 蠻牛; pinyin: Mán Níu) is a Taiwanese energy drink which was first distributed in 1997. It is manufactured by Paolyta Co., Inc. and is mainly sold in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. Man-new is marketed to alleviate physical and mental fatigue. The drink became popular due to its successful television advertising campaign. The slogan "Are you tired?" became a widely recognized catchphrase in Taiwan.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Man-new” as energy drink brand of Taiwan. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Man-new, energy and drink can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as energy drink brand of Taiwan. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 11, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q18658473. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from “Man-new” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.