Thai PM visits Myanmar

Thailand's coup leader made his first official overseas trip Thursday to neighboring Myanmar for meetings with another former general who has steered his country to democracy after a half-century of dictatorship. The visit by Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha, Thailand's appointed prime minister, comes at a sensitive time for both countries. Thailand recently arrested two Myanmar migrants for the killings of two British tourists on a popular resort island last month, but the men now say they were coerced into confessing. Public sentiment on both sides of the border is that they were framed. Prayuth's government, which came to power after the army overthrew a popularly elected administration, finds itself grappling with thousands of Myanmar refugees who fled fighting between their army and ethnic rebels in recent years and concerns about the trafficking of large amounts of Myanmar-produced heroin and methamphetamine into Thailand, according to AP.