UK's Hague visits Myanmar to urge reforms

LONDON (AP) — Britain's William Hague was arriving in Myanmar on Thursday for the first visit by a U.K. foreign secretary since 1955 — a new sign of the Southeast Asian nation's warming relations with the West.

Hague was scheduled to hold talks with Myanmar's president Thein Sein and government ministers in the nation's capital Naypyitaw before meeting with opposition leader and Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon.

His visit follows a trip by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in November, as Western nations offer cautious support for reforms that have led to the release of some political prisoners and seen Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy rejoin …