"I haven't wavered in my belief that New Oriental Education (NYSE: EDU) is the single best stock I've run into during my 25-year investment career," asserts Tony Sagami in The Asia Stock Alert.

"The company's latest quarterly results only reinforce that belief. The Chinese are signing up in droves for basic English classes that are offered by New Oriental.

"First quarter profits rose $11.6 million, to 29 cents per share, from $8.4 million or 22 cents during the same period a year ago. That, by the way, is well above the 23 cents Wall Street was expecting.

"Revenue jumped from $32.8 million a year ago to $48.1 million, a 47% spurt. That number is extremely impressive given the fact that China was hit with its worst snowstorm in 50 years and caused many classes to be canceled.

"I believe the #1 rule for making money in the next decade is to get long whatever the Chinese are buying," says Tony Sagami in the Asia Stock Alert.

"China will need to consume an unprecedented amount of natural resources to fuel its red-hot economy," says the advisor who offers his speculations as to the most likely takeover candidates in three areas -- energy, metals and food.

"There's no doubt in my mind that China is on a buying spree. And I'm not just talking about oil, either. Fact is, the Chinese have a ravenous appetite for virtually all commodities.

"While I don't have any inside knowledge about what companies the Chinese have in their sights, I do know what industries are strategically important to their lofty growth objectives.

"China needs energy - and lots of it - so you can expect frenzied buying activity to lock up reliable supplies of multiple sources of energy. In my book, oil, natural gas, coal, and uranium are all key players. My #1 pick for an energy takeover: Cameco (NYSE: CCJ), the largest uranium producer in the world.

For 25 years, Steven Halpern, editor of TheStockAdvisors.com, has surveyed the leading financial newsletter advisors asking for their favorite stocks for the coming year. This article is one of 100+ ideas in the Best Stocks for 2008 report.

"My favorite speculative, home run idea for 2008 is Man Sang Holdings, Inc.," says Tony Sagami, editor of The Asia Stock Alert.

He explains, "I run at a pretty fast pace when I'm in Asia. Every day is packed with factory tours, meetings with company executives, pestering government and university leaders for their local knowledge, and hitting the streets to see with my own eyes if the zealous Investor Relations departments are feeding me overly optimistic projections.

"When I was in China in May, I completely turned my schedule upside down after visiting Man Sang Holdings, Inc. (ASE: MHJ). I re-scheduled and postponed my entire South China schedule because what should have been a one-hour meeting at Man Sang turned into two full days of tire kicking and fact checking.

"Man Sang Holdings, together with its subsidiaries, is one of the leading pearl merchants in Greater China. The company primarily sells to jewelry manufacturers, wholesale jewelry distributors, and mass jewelry merchandisers, such as QVC, in the US, Europe, and Asia.

For 25 years, Steven Halpern, editor of TheStockAdvisors.com, has surveyed the leading financial newsletter advisors asking for their favorite stocks for the coming year. This article is one of 100+ ideas in the Best Stocks for 2008 report.

"My favorite conservative idea for 2008 is China Mobile (NYSE: CHL)," says Tony Sagami, editor of The Asia Stock Alert. "Because of instant delivery and low cost, text messaging has rapidly become a wildly popular means of communication among young people.

"Text messaging over SMS (Short Messaging System) wireless systems is very popular in America. But one country sends more text messages than anybody else in the world: China.

"One out of every two SMS text messages sent in the world are sent in China. Typically, the cost of a text message in China costs about 10 fen (or 1 cent), so we're talking about a mountain of money. Indeed, in China mobile phone users are expected to send over 1 trillion text messages by the end of this decade.

"For investors, that gargantuan growth spells opportunity. And in China, the company poised to serve and profit from this trend is China Mobile, the largest wireless phone company in the world with 356 million subscribers and a dominant share of the rapidly growing Chinese wireless market.

With the growing interest in investing in China, an increasing number of advisers are spending more of their time in the region, meeting with managements and getting first-hand experience about Chinese companies.

One such adviser is Tony Sagami, editor of The Asia Stock Alert. Back from his latest visit to the region, he has added New Oriental Education (NYSE:EDU) to his portfolio.

The company helps Chinese learn English and other languages. Sagami asks, "How much do I like New Oriental? If there was only one stock that you could own, this is the one."

And while the company has just gone through what is supposed to be its slowest time of year, the adviser notes, "Somebody forgot to tell the people running EDU that business should slow down, because it is still booming."