President of Operations in Greater China, Google
ice President for Google Inc. and president of Google Operations in Greater China
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Kai Fu Lee
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FROM Kai Fu Lee
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Opening Ceremonies at the Beijing Olympics A country once famous for shutting itself off from the rest of the world staged one of history's most elaborate pageants today: a four-hour extravaganza featuring 15,000 performers and 29,000 fireworks before a crowd of 91,000 people in Beijing's Bird's Nest stadium. The TV audience could be four billion worldwide. George W. Bush became the first US President to attend an Olympic event on foreign soil.
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