Thai PM to meet Suu Kyi in first for neighbours

YANGON: A spokesman for Aung San Suu Kyi’s political party says the opposition leader will meet with Thailand’s prime minister in her first ever audience with a regional head-of-state.National League for Democracy spokesman Nyan Win says it will also be Suu Kyi’s first meeting with a prime minister since her release from house arrest more than a year ago.Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is attending a summit in Myanmar’s capital and will travel to the Thai ambassador’s residence in Yangon to meet Suu Kyi.Suu Kyi met earlier this month with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and later with China’s ambassador to Myanmar.The meetings come amid democratic stirrings in Myanmar that have raised hopes of change after decades of military rule.