Word: sino
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...moment, at least, Sino-American relations are relatively warm. With Hu and U.S. President George W. Bush having already met on five occasions in just three years - including a t?te-?-t?te in Beijing last November - few people expect any groundbreaking initiatives this time around. "Hu wants to show a smiling face to the public in the U.S. and say, 'We like you very much and we will stick to peaceful development,'" says Jin Canrong, a professor of international relations at Beijing's Renmin University. Jin thinks Hu will not only try to allay U.S. unease over China's rising...
...authoritarian Alexander Lukashenko to power; Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice holds a security summit in Australia with her counterparts from that country and Japan. Yet those headlines, together with the ones announcing closer economic ties and strategic ties during President Putin's visit to Beijing, hint at how Sino-Russian concerns over U.S. policy elsewhere may prolong the Iran deadlock...
International investors can be forgiven for never having heard of Motech, E-Ton or Sino-American Silicon. Compared with better-known Taiwan-based chip giants such as Taiwan Semiconductor and United Microelectronics, listed on the New York Stock Exchange, these three Taiwanese semiconductor plays have flown under most people's radar...
...Until now. Continuing high oil prices and growing concern over sustainable energy have made them the hottest stocks in the tech-heavy Taiwan Stock Exchange. Motech and E-Ton Solar make photovoltaic (PV) semiconductors, better known as solar cells. Sino-American is in the business of supplying them with silicon wafers, which are the basic PV building blocks. And shares of all three have delivered stellar gains thanks to the world's growing appetite for solar power as a hedge against the high price of crude...
...following a path already established by Motech, which rose 130% on Taiwan's small-cap bourse last year, outstripping other pure-play solar manufacturers such as Germany's SolarWorld (up 61% last year). Sino-American was another spectacular winner: its share price trebled last year on the back of a shortage in silicon wafers...