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Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 0600 GMT, March 30

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NAY PYI TAW -- Myanmar's President-elect U Win Myint was sworn in on Friday as the new president of the country and pledged to pursue three objectives as his priorities, parliament sources said.

The three objectives are law enforcement and people's socio-economic development; national reconciliation and domestic peace; and amendment of the constitution for the establishment of a democratic federal union. (Myanmar-President)

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KATHMANDU -- Dongfang Electric International Corporation (DEC International), a Chinese company based in Sichuan, has agreed to finance a Nepal's private sector-led Hydropower Project under Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Financing (EPCF) modality.

The Chinese company agreed to finance the 75MW Trishuli Galchhi Hydroelectric Project located at the border between Nuwakot and Dhading districts in province 3, said Siddhakali Power Limited (SPL), the developer of the project. (Nepal-China-Hydropower)

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SEOUL -- About 64,000 South Korean iPhone users lodged the country's biggest-ever class action lawsuit against Apple for damages worth tens of millions of U.S. dollars, Yonhap news agency reported Friday.

Hannuri, a local law firm which represents 63,767 iPhone users here, filed the class action lawsuit with the Seoul Central District Court against Apple and Apple Korea, the local unit of the U.S. iPhone manufacturer. (S. Korea-iPhone Users)

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SEOUL -- South Korea on Friday denounced Japan for adopting a guideline for high school student textbooks that distort wartime history by claiming sovereignty over disputed islets, called Dokdo here and Takeshima in Japan.

Seoul's foreign ministry said in a statement that despite the South Korean government's repeated warnings, the Japanese government eventually adopted the guideline for high school textbooks that lay an undue territorial claim over the Dokdo islets that are an inherent territory of South Korea. (S. Korea-Japan-Textbooks) Enditem

 

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