"Focus Media Holdings (FMCN), our latest featured stock, is a leader in the advertising sector in in China; this stock is a great way to play the broad consumer market in China as that country's middle class continues to grow," says Paul Goodwin.

The editor of Cabot China & Emerging Markets Report explains, "In 2002, the company's founder, Jason Jiang, was standing in a crowd of bored office workers in Shanghai, waiting for one of the office block's infamously slow elevators to arrive.

"Then it hit him. If he could just put a little fl‚at-panel TV on the wall by the elevators, he could sell space on the screen to advertisers, translating all those increasingly affluent eyes into money.

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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.

"Our top conservative stock idea for 2008 is Focus Media Ltd. (NASDAQ: FMCN)," says Jim Trippon, editor of The China Stock Digest. "Founded only four years ago, Focus Media now calls itself China's largest out-of-home media company; it has blanketed China's first and second tier cities with tens of thousands of display ads.

"Focus Media is growing powerfully on the strength of a rapidly expanding out-of-home advertising business in a booming economy. With revenue growth in all of its corporate sectors expanding at approximately 100% year over year, this company is delivering unprecedented profitability.

"With the Beijing Olympics approaching, we expect an extra surge in out-of-home advertising revenue and demand. The company is aggressively pushing its pricing to the market's tolerance and expanding its network. 2008 should be a banner year for Focus Media.

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