Obama's Half Brother Far From Spotlight

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President-Elect's Intensely Private Half Brother Lives In China

SHENZHEN, China, Jan. 16, 2009

(AP) The news release didn't say who Mark Ndesandjo was. Nor did the posters and e-mails promoting the concert Friday in this southern Chinese boomtown where he played piano to raise money for orphans ...

For the past seven years, Ndesandjo has been living in Shenzhen, a freewheeling city just across the border from Hong Kong. The announcement for his piano concert identified him as a strategic marketing consultant. He also helped start a chain of eateries in China called Cabin BBQ ...

During brief remarks on stage, Ndesandjo mentioned that he would visit the U.S. in a couple days, apparently to attend Tuesday's presidential inauguration. He said if he didn't make the trip in time, he would embarrass his family ...

On Friday, he said he had visited a Shenzhen orphanage shortly after arriving in China and saw rows and rows of sleeping babies while a harried staff of two nurses tried to care for them ...

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[elleng]

1. 'He's intensely private,

so we, CBSNEWS, will tell you all about him!'

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2. He sounds like a very special and intriguing man. n/t