Mr. Wang is the Chairman of China Vanke Co., Ltd. Mr. Wang was Chairman and General Manager from 1991 to 1999. He founded “Shenzhen Exhibition Center of Modern Science and Education Equipment” in 1984, which is the predecessor to China Vanke Co., Ltd. Mr. Wang is the Executive Manager of China Real Estate Association and is Deputy Director of the City Housing Development Council of China Real Estate Association. One of China’s most respected entrepreneurs, Mr. Wang has been an avid user of SOHU's online web properties for many years.

Dr. Qi is a Professor of Accounting and the Executive MBA & Executive Development Program's Academic Director of the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business. Before joining Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, Dr. Qi was an Associate Professor at School of Accounting of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has a Ph.D. in accounting from the Eli Broad Graduate School of management of Michigan State University, a Master of Business Administration from University of Hawaii at Manoa, a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Arts from Fudan University. Dr. Qi is currently a member of the American Accounting Association. Dr. Qi will join the Audit Committee of the SOHU Board of Directors.

“We welcome the addition of the two new members to the Board. We expect that Mr. Wang’s corporate management expertise and Dr. Qi’s extensive academic and financial experience will complement the Board's oversight of SOHU. We highly value their support in expanding our business and brand leadership in the rapidly growing Chinese Internet industry,” said Charles Zhang, Chairman and CEO of SOHU.

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About SOHU
SOHU.COM Inc. (NASDAQ: SOHU) is China's premier online brand and indispensable to the daily life of millions of Chinese who use the portal network for their news, search, e-mail, wireless messaging, instant messaging, browsing, games and shopping. SOHU has built one of the most comprehensive matrices of Chinese language web properties and proprietary search engines, consisting of the mass portal and leading online media destination www.sohu.com; interactive search engine www.sogou.com; the #1 online alumni club www.chinaren.com; #1 games information portal www.17173.com; top real estate website www.focus.cn; and wireless value-added services provider www.goodfeel.com.cn. This network of web properties offers the vast SOHU user community very broad choices regarding information, entertainment, communication and commerce.
SOHU corporate services consist of online advertising on its matrix of websites as well as paid listing and bidding listing on its in-house developed search directory and engine. SOHU also offers three types of consumer services. SOHU offers wireless value-added services such as news, information, ringtone and picture content sent over mobile phones. The company also operates two massively multi-player online role-playing games and manages a business-to-consumer e-commerce platform.
SOHU.COM, established by Dr. Charles Zhang, one of China's Internet pioneers, is in its ninth year of operation.

For further information:
Dahlia Wei
SOHU Investor Relations and Communications
Tel: +86 10 6272 6598
E-mail: ir@sohu-inc.com
http://www.sohu.com/about/English/