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Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1615 GMT, April 6

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U.S. destroyer USS Fitzgerald and coastal combat ship USS Fort Worth docked at central Vietnam's Da Nang city's Tien Sa port on Monday to start a goodwill visit to the city.

The tour was the sixth annual Naval Engagement Activity (NEA) between U.S. Navy and the Vietnam People's Navy on the occasion that two countries celebrate the 20th anniversary of diplomatic relations in 2015.(Vietnam-U.S. destroyer)

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JAKARTA -- More than 30 heads of states, vice presidents and deputy prime ministers have confirmed their participation at the 60th anniversary of Asian-African conference in Indonesia from April 19 to 22, a minister said here on Monday.

Among them, Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said, more than 20 are heads of states.(Indonesia-Bandung Conference)

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PHNOM PENH -- Cambodia's new National Election Committee (NEC) will be officially formed next Monday after the ruling and opposition parties have agreed on the members of this new independent body, opposition leader Sam Rainsy said Monday.

Under the agreement, the CPP agreed to share power in the National Assembly with the CNRP and to reform the current NEC in order to ensure free and fair elections in the future.(Cambodia- Election Committee)

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TOKYO -- Historical revisionism was exposed in Japan's new textbooks for junior high school reviewed by the Education Ministry, according to the review results released by the ministry Monday.

Some reviewed textbooks to be used in the next year, in line with the country's increasingly right-leaning politics under the Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration, revised their expressions over Japan's wartime atrocities during the World War II and colonial rule on the Korean Peninsula.(Japan-Revisionism) Endi