NEW DELHI — Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh departed Sunday on a three-day visit to Myanmar that underscores India's quest for energy supplies and concerns about China's strong influence in the Southeast Asian country.YANGON, Myanmar – Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will meet Thailand's prime minister on Tuesday in her first ever audience with a head of state from the region, a spokesman for her political party said Tuesday.
The meeting will also be Suu Kyi's first with a prime minister since her release from house arrest more than a year ago, National League for Democracy spokesman Nyan Win said.
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.
The meeting will be the latest in a series that come amid democratic stirrings in Myanmar that have raised hopes of change after decades of military rule.
Suu Kyi met earlier this month with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and later with China's ambassador to Myanmar.
She is scheduled to meet with Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba later this month and Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague in January, Nyan Win said.
Yingluck will be the first prime minister from an Association of Southeast Asian Nations country to meet Suu Kyi.
Myanmar joined the regional bloc in 1997 and will chair ASEAN for the first time in 2014 despite concerns from human rights groups that the country's democratic reforms have not gone far enough.
The ASEAN chairmanship is supposed to rotate annually among the 10 members, but Myanmar was forced to skip its turn in 2006 because of intense criticism of its rights record.
ASEAN is made up of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
