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Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said he has long had a bond with China after he wrapped up his first official visit to the country on Monday."I made my debut appearance in China in 1984 as a member of a 3,000-strong Japanese youth delegation and have ever since forged a bond with China," Noda said in a written interview with the Xinhua News Agency and other Chinese media ahead of his two-day visit. mulberry bags"That is why I often describe myself as the 'son of Japan-China exchanges'."In his maiden visit to China as prime minister, Noda said he expects to "reach consensuses with China's leaders on deepening bilateral strategic and mutually beneficial relations" on the 40th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic ties between the two countries next year. China too attached great importance to his visit. President Hu Jintao, Premier Wen Jiabao and Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, all held talks with him. During these talks, Chinese leaders made it clear that China is willing to work with Japan to make preparations for the activities to celebration the 40th anniversary of the normalization of bilateral diplomatic ties and the "Year of Friendly Exchanges" between the two people.mulberry sale The top Chinese leaders also said that China, on the basis of the principles embodied in the four political documents the two countries have signed as the foundation of their diplomatic ties, is willing to enhance mutual political trust and expand exchanges and cooperation with its neighbor in a bid to create a conducive environment for bilateral strategic and mutually beneficial ties. During the talks, both countries also vowed to be "good neighbors and partners rather than rivals". Their geographic proximity has historically led to frequent friendly exchanges between China and Japan. But their geographic closeness has also brought occasional friction and clashes, which culminated in an aggressive war launched by Japanese militarists in the 1930s and 40s, a war that inflicted on both Chinese and Japanese people enormous pain and tragedies. However, the communications and exchanges both countries managed to open in the following decad Sino-Japanese relations have experienced an uneven development road over the past four decades since their normalization. The alternating chills and thawing, however, have not changed its generally upward tendency. As indicated by past experiences and lessons, only by maintaining a clear-sighted and forward-looking perspective, can Sino-Japanese ties maintain a correct development direction and produce mutually beneficial and win-win results. At the same time, both countries are well aware that only by adopting a friendly attitude to resolving sensitive issues, can a stable bilateral relationship be maintained. On the basis of the four political documents they have signed as the backbone of their diplomatic ties, China and Japan should carry out heart-to-heart exchanges in an effort to enhance mutual trust, as a way to carry forward the generations-long friendship.mulberry bags for saleThe author is vice-president of the Central Institute of Socialism and a member of the 21st Century Committee for China-Japan Friendship.

Dwyane Wade did two things on the basketball court Sunday for the first time in his life.First, there was the fantastically instinctual tip-pass, alley-oop from LeBron James that Wade finished with a two-handed dunk. Wade had never seen anything like it before Sunday, let alone participated in such split-second magic. Even the Mavericks’ fans had to gasp in awe after that one. Then the buzzer sounded and Wade, for the first time, defeated the Mavericks on their home court during the regular season. mulberry bagsThe Heat’s 105-94 victory over the defending NBA champions was Miami’s first win in Dallas during the regular season since March 2002. Wade downplayed the significance of the Heat’s win, calling it “just one game,” but he said nearly everything felt familiar about his team despite the long break during the lockout. That’s a good sign given the NBA’s frantic schedule between now and the playoffs, which will leave little time for practices.“We’re a little bit more together,” Wade said. “We’re getting into our game a little. We’re just more comfortable with each other.” Never was that familiarity more apparent than during the fast break in the third quarter that ended in the Chalmers-to-James-to-Wade alley-oop. mulberry saleThe play already could be considered a contender for best of the season — never mind it occurring in the first game.The sequence went like this: Mario Chalmers stripped Dallas forward Dirk Nowitzki and Wade gathered the loose ball to begin the fastbreak. Wade passed the ball back to Chalmers, who rushed forward across midcourt and lobbed an alley-oop to LeBron James, who was sprinting down the opposite wing. Wade finished with 26 points on 11 of 21 shooting. He had eight rebounds, six assists, a block and a steal. The 63 points provided by James and Wade — 60 percent of the Heat’s offense— was more than enough to make up for an off night for Chris Bosh, who had four points on 2 of 9 shooting in less than 24 minutes. mulberry bags for saleBosh managed seven rebounds despite being limited by foul trouble. The Heat outrebounded the Mavs 51-31 and outscored Dallas 31-10 in fastbreak points.“It was a good business-professional win for us tonight to get this thing started,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said.“We understand that is going to be a wild journey for everybody with all the condensed games coming one after another.”“It’s not about last year’s storyline; it’s not about anything else other than trying to establish our season on the right note.”

North Korea on Sunday aired footage showing the uncle and key patron of anointed heir Kim Jong Un wearing a military uniform with a general's insignia — a strong sign he'll play a greater role in efforts to secure the young man's rise to power after the death of his father, Kim Jong Il, a week ago. The footage on state television shows Jang Song Thaek paying respects at Kim Jong Il's body as it lies in state at Kumsusan Memorial Palace.mulberry bags It indicates Jang has been appointed to a new military job. Seoul's Unification Ministry says it's the first time Jang has been shown wearing a military uniform on state TV. South Korean intelligence has predicted Kim Jong Un's aunt Kim Kyong Hui, a key Workers' Party official, mulberry saleand her husband Jang, who is a vice chairman of the powerful National Defense Commission, will play larger roles supporting the heir. Kim Jong Un made a third visit Saturday to the palace where his father's body is lying in state — this time as "supreme leader of the revolutionary armed forces" and accompanied by North Korea's top military brass, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.mulberry bags for saleThe new title and public show of support from the military leadership sent a strong signal that the nation will maintain Kim Jong Il's "military first" policy for the time being. Earlier Saturday, the newspaper Rodong Sinmun, mouthpiece of the ruling Workers' Party, urged Kim Jong Un to accept the top military post: "Comrade Kim Jong Un, please assume the supreme commandership, as wished by the people."

Given the chance to get in on the escalating war of words being conducted on several fronts during Giants-Jets week, superstar cornerback Darrelle Revis chose to pass for the most part.On Wednesday, Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz said that teams "aren't really backing down" from the three-time Pro Bowl cornerback and that "teams aren't really scared anymore" of throwing toward Revis. Fellow wideout Hakeem Nicks commented that Revis was a "decent corner," before later amending that to "great player."Thursday was Revis' first chance to respond."I don't even know who this guy is, really," Revis said.mulberry bagsDid he mean Cruz or Nicks?"Whoever said what," Revis said. "I'm not entertaining it. If I wanted to watch entertainment, I'd look at some reality shows or something, watch TV."As for Cruz, he declined further comment Thursday, saying, "I'm not talking about their players or nothing like that. I'm not trying to have my words twisted around." At one point, Revis laughed and said, "I mean, I'm not a monster. So why would anybody be scared? I don't know."There's really no point in me to sit here," he added, "and get in a jawing match with their receivers. There's no point. That's just how I look at it."When asked specifically about Cruz again, Revis responded, "Whatever he says, it's in one ear and out the other. The only time I remember this guy is (from) the preseason game. Other than that, I don't know the guy very well. Do I respect him as a player? Yeah, you respect everybody you play against. Like I said, you've got to line up and play." The Jets' trademark press coverage by Revis and Cromartie likely will be applied again Saturday. Coach Rex Ryan talked about how the Jets have funneled their coverage help away from Revis most of the time this year, mulberry saleleaving him one-on-one most of the time.But because Cruz often lines up in the slot, there's a good chance Revis likely will go up against Nicks most of the time, although he could get some one-on-one chances against Cruz. Revis concluded, "We know what type of game this (will be), an intense game. People are going to say what they want to say. We've been hearing it all week, the jawing back and forth. You expect that and you just go with it. mulberry bags for saleWhoever says what on both sides, we've got to go out there and play. That's the biggest thing, and that's how you should approach it."--Santonio Holmes and Plaxico Burress are looking forward to facing the Giants' secondary and their 29th-ranked passing defense. Of course, neither had a particularly terrific day at Philadelphia in a 45-19 loss. Burress had one catch, a 9-yard touchdown in garbage time, and Holmes lost a fumble that was returned for a touchdown.Still, the two veteran wideouts remain as bold as their coach, trash-talking Rex Ryan.

The 24-year-old Manning is charged with downloading thousands of classified or confidential files from the military's Secret Internet Protocol Router Network, or SIPRNet. Those files are thought to have later appeared on WikiLeaks, mulberry bagsa whistleblower website.Former hacker Adrian Lamo said Manning initially contacted him by email in May 2010 and the two began an online conversation about diplomatic cables and military video the Army private allegedly downloaded from the classified network he used as a member of the 10th Mountain Division in Iraq. Within a day Lamo contacted Timothy Webster, a former Army counterintelligence agent, to seek advice on who to approach about the information he was getting from Manning."What I saw in the chats appeared to be an admission of acts so egregious that it required that response," Lamo said when questioned about why he had decided to contact military authorities about Manning's conduct. Lamo's testimony came on the fifth day of a military hearing to determine whether there is sufficient evidence to court-martial Manning for aiding the enemy and other charges in connection with the massive leak of documents. He faces life imprisonment if convicted of the most serious charge."Perhaps to bond, yes," said Lamo, mulberry salewho acknowledged suffering depression, having drug problems and being diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a disorder that makes social interactions difficult. Computer crimes investigator Patrick Edwards said Lamo gave authorities a removable computer hard drive, a laptop and two thumbdrives with details from his chats with Manning.Investigator David Shaver said the chat logs from the computers of Manning and Lamo were identical except for occasional network drops that affected one computer and not the other. mulberry bags for saleOne set of chat logs had been modified slightly and may have been those leaked to the media, he said. In other testimony on Tuesday, Manning's supervisor in Iraq testified that she recommended he be disciplined and barred from handling classified information following a spate of violent confrontations, including one in which he punched her in the face.Former Specialist Jihrleah Showman said she also had recommended that Manning not be deployed to Iraq because of concerns about his behavior, but her suggestion was not followed and it was unclear whether her assessments had been passed along to the company commander.

Shares in the Macau unit of Las Vegas Sands rose on Tuesday after it was cleared by Hong Kong regulators following a nine-month probe, one of several investigations the casino giant is facing. Sands China said in late March that it was being investigated by the city's Securities and Futures Commission for alleged breaches of regulatory laws, but neither the firm nor the regulator has disclosed the nature of the probe.mulberry bagsThe Hong Kong action came shortly after US authorities launched a bribery probe into Las Vegas Sands over its compliance with laws that prohibit US firms from bribing foreign officials for favourable treatment. It is also under a similar investigation by the US Justice Department. Sands China said in a statement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, where it is listed, that it has received a confirmation from the regulator that "the investigation has been concluded and that no further action will be taken".mulberry bags for saleShares in the firm rose 0.48 percent to HK$20.85 ($2.68) on Tuesday. Its shares had tumbled nearly six percent when the Hong Kong probe was revealed on March 31. Las Vegas Sands remains under the US investigation, an action the firm has said stems from a wrongful termination lawsuit filed by the former chief executive of the Macau unit, mulberry saleSteven Jacobs. Jacobs has claimed he was told to spy on government officials in the Asian gambling hub, and that he was forced to withhold information from Sands' board, including claims of ties between the company and Macau's notorious triad gangs.

Sergeant First Class Paul Adkins invoked his right against self-incrimination as he began answering questions at a proceeding to determine whether there was sufficient evidence to court-martial the 24-year-old Manning on charges including aiding the enemy, which carries life imprisonment.Manning is charged with downloading massive data files from the military's classified network when he was a U.S. Army intelligence analyst in Iraq, and providing them to anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. The defense has portrayed Adkins, at the time a master sergeant in charge of security at the facility where Manning worked, as someone who should have recognized the private's troubled emotional state and acted to revoke the security clearance that gave him access to classified U.S. documents.Manning's attorney, mulberry bagsDavid Coombs, argued that Adkins should not be excused because he was not under criminal investigation in the case, but the prosecution declined to grant him immunity to testify and he was excused. A second intelligence analyst who worked with Manning, Warrant Officer 1 Kyle Balonek, also invoked his right against self-incrimination and was excused from testifying on Sunday. He was one of the most experienced analysts in the unit. The email included a photo of Manning as a woman. Lim said Adkins did not tell him about the email until after Manning's arrest. Manning, it was disclosed during the proceedings, has created a female alter-ego online, mulberry saleBreanna Manning.Manning was arrested last year after disclosing his data thefts to former hacker Adrian Lamo, who turned him in to U.S. authorities. In Internet chats with Lamo, Manning said he would bring CDs to his workplace and load them with downloaded data from the military's Secret Internet Protocol Router Network, known as SIPRNet, Lamo told Reuters in a previous interview.mulberry bags for saleIn his Web chats with Lamo, Manning appeared to acknowledge giving materials to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. He wrote to Lamo: "I'm a high profile source ... and I've developed a relationship with Assange," according to details of the chats confirmed by Lamo to Reuters.

Senate leaders said on Friday night that they had reached a deal that would extend a payroll tax cut for two months — falling far short of the year-long extension they had been seeking. The agreement would also speed the decision process for the construction of an oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast — a provision necessary to win over Republicans who opposed the tax break. mulberry bagsA senior administration officials said that the deal announced Friday night meets the test that President Obama had set out: that Congress would not go home without preventing a tax increase on 160 million Americans. However, rank and file members of the House said on Friday that they were opposed to a short-term extension. Approval in that chamber, even with the provision on the Keystone XL pipeline, is no sure thing. The Senate agreement would also allow jobless workers to continue receiving unemployment insurance benefits as permitted by current law for two months. For the same period, there would be no cut or increase in fees paid to doctors for treating Medicare patients. The cost of these items will be fully paid for, Congressional aides said. News of the deal came as the 112th Congress lurched toward the end of its tumultuous first session. Earlier on Friday, the House finished off one of its last major pieces of business for the year, voting 296 to 121 to approve a sweeping $1 trillion spending bill that would keep the government funded through Sept. 30. The Senate is set to approve it Saturday. mulberry saleThat conflict, which mirrors the broader political dynamic across the country, is unlikely to ebb in the second session, as Republicans labor to make life more difficult for President Obama and Democrats struggle to hold the White House and the Senate. “It’s a presidential year and it may even get worse,” said Representative Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska, a Republican who has served since 2005. “My hope is that the institution can regain some stature in the eyes of the people,” he said. “Sadly next year, because of the dynamics of politics, because of the dynamic of the media because of the dynamics of money, it’s likely to be more difficult.” The omnibus spending bill approved by the House on Friday provides more than $900 billion for the Defense Department, Homeland Security, public works, foreign aid, veterans benefits and a wide range of health, education and labor programs in the 2012 fiscal year. Under the bill, the National Institutes of Health would get $30.7 billion, which is $299 million above last year’s level and $758 million below the president’s request.mulberry bags for saleThe bill provides $3.5 billion for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program — $1.2 billion less than last year but $909 million more than the president requested. The measure also cuts President Obama’s Race to the Top education initiative by more than 20 percent, to $550 million, from $698 million. The bill says health officials cannot use federal money to advocate gun control or to carry out needle exchange programs, intended to curb the spread of AIDS.

Japan is set to declare on Friday that its tsunami-stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant has reached cold shutdown, passing a key milestone in efforts to bring under control the world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl 25 years ago.The Fukushima Daiichi plant, 240 km (150 miles) northeast of Tokyo, mulberry bagswas wrecked on March 11 by a huge earthquake and a 10-metre-high (33-ft-high) tsunami, which knocked out its cooling systems, triggering meltdowns and radiation leaks. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is expected to announce the accomplishment of one of the government's top goals at a news conference at 0900 GMT, though he may also warn that it will take decades to fully dismantle Fukushima's six reactors.A cold shutdown is when water used to cool nuclear fuel rods remains below its boiling point, preventing the fuel from reheating. mulberry saleOne of the chief aims of the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), had been to bring the reactors to cold shutdown by the year-end. After months of efforts, the water temperature in all three of the affected reactors fell below boiling point by September, but Tepco has been cautious of declaring a cold shutdown, saying it had to see if temperatures and the amount of radiation emitted from the plant remained stable.Declaring a cold shutdown will have repercussions well beyond the plant: it is a government pre-condition before it allows about 80,000 residents evacuated from within a 20 km (12 mile) radius of the plant to return home. The crisis shook the public's faith in nuclear energy and Japan is now reviewing its earlier plan to raise the proportion of electricity generated from nuclear power to 50 percent by 2030 from 30 percent in 2010.Japan may not immediately walk away from nuclear power, but few doubt that nuclear power would play a lesser role in future.Living in fear of radiation is part of life for residents both near and far from the plant. Cases of excessive radiation in vegetables, tea, milk, seafood and water have stoked anxiety despite assurances from public officials that the levels detected are not dangerous. Chernobyl's experience shows that anxiety is likely to persist for years to come, with residents living near the former Soviet plant still regularly checking local produce for radiation before consuming them 25 years after the disaster.mulberry bags for saleThe announcement may not dramatically improve Noda's support ratings, eroded by his steadfast commitment to a sales tax hike to cope with a public debt burden twice the size of Japan's economy. Noda is also faced with a formidable list of other tasks, such as helping a stagnant economy deal with the yen's rise to historic highs.

He's colder than Darth Vader, more ruthless than the Joker, smarter than James Bond nemesis Ernst Blofeld and capable of out-eviling Lord Voldemort. And, man, can Professor James Moriarty — archenemy of ace detective Sherlock Holmes and one of fiction's first supervillains — play a mean game of chess. The notorious yet mysterious baddie gets his highest-profile treatment yet in director Guy Ritchie's sequel Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, which opens Friday. Pitted against Robert Downey Jr.'s manic man of action, Sherlock, Jared Harris stars as Moriarty, mulberry bagsthe genius math professor and global criminal mastermind who plans to start a world war. Although he played an active role in only two of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock stories in the late 19th century, Moriarty has seen his legend grow over the years with people's interest in the ultimate antagonist, achieving an impressive level of pop-culture notoriety. "You have to see Moriarty as the dark side of Holmes. This is what Holmes could have been if he had become a criminal," says Leslie Klinger, a Sherlock expert and editor of TheNew Annotated Sherlock Holmes."I don't think there's any other arch-villain who ever rose to the level where you just had to admire him." Moriarty doesn't just haunt the multiplex, however. In the world of comic books, writer Daniel Corey presents the bad guy as the hero of Image Comics' Moriarty title. Want the most modern Moriarty? mulberry saleThe British series Sherlock returns as part of PBS' Masterpiece series with new episodes in May. They'll feature a truly disturbing incarnation of Sherlock's opposite number in actor Andrew Scott's Jim Moriarty. That departure from the source material works, says Klinger, a technical adviser on both of Ritchie's films. "Otherwise, it was always this really unfair matchup of semi-young, vigorous Holmes, with his expertise in 'baritsu,' taking on this old man."Moriarty's pugilistic skills aside, Ritchie feels he's at the top of the supervillain heap — "I can't think of one" better, he says. Klinger agrees. "He's not in it for the torture or for the twisted personal reasons of the Hannibal Lecters of the world. He's in it for the money, and maybe he's in it for the power. In a sense, they're almost normal reasons.mulberry bags for sale "Readers for more than a century have loved the character and wanted to see some more of him. Yes, OK, they like the idea that Holmes defeated him, because, of course, Holmes is our boy. But wouldn't it be great if it had taken a lot longer? And maybe he made some return appearances."