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YANGON (Reuters) - Nobel laureate and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyiwill travel outside Myanmar for the first time in 24 years nextweek to deliver a speech at an international forum in Thailand, herparty said on Thursday. Her decision to venture outside the country she had only expectedto return to temporarily in 1988 comes after a year of dramaticchange in Myanmar after almost a half century of military rule. Suu Kyi, 66, won a parliamentary seat in April after engaging withthe reformist rulers once part of the junta that locked her up for15 years for her fight against dictatorship. An official from her National League for Democracy (NLD) party toldReuters Suu Kyi had accepted an invitation to attend the WorldEconomic Forum on East Asia in Bangkok next week. Separately, NLD spokesman Nyan Win said Suu Kyi would head toneighboring Thailand on Monday. Organisers could not confirmwhether or not she would attend. Suu Kyi, the daughter of the leader of Myanmar's campaign forindependence from British rule, spent years away from home,including many in Britain after marrying a British academic,Michael Aris. She returned to her homeland in 1988 to take care of her dyingmother and got caught up in a student-led democracy uprising thatswept the country that year and which the military eventuallycrushed. Suu Kyi was first detained in 1989 and spent 15 of the next 21years in detention until her release from house arrest in November2010. She refused to leave the country during brief periods when she wasnot held by authorities, for fear of not being allowed to return,even after her husband was diagnosed with cancer. Aris died in1999. Suu Kyi had announced in April she would make Britain and Norwayher first ports of call, but her plans appear to have changed. She is due to visit Geneva to address an international laborconference on June 14 and will also spend a week in Britain fromJune 18, where she lived and studied, during which she will give aspeech to both houses of parliament. (Reporting by Aung Hla Tun; Writing by Martin Petty; Editing by Robert Birsel ). I am an expert from solar-wind-street-lights.com, while we provides the quality product, such as Solar Powered Yard Lights , Off Grid Street Lighting, Solar Lawn Lamps,and more.
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