Storied Burmese dissident globe-trots

For 24 years, Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was either under house arrest or too fearful that if she left Burma the government would never let her return.

Now, in a sign of how much life there has changed, the democracy activist and longtime political prisoner is resuming world travels, arriving Tuesday night in neighboring Thailand after an 85-minute flight from her homeland.

Suu Kyi, 66, is to spend several days in Thailand, meeting with poor migrant workers and war refugees from her homeland, as well as international movers and shakers at the World Economic Forum on East Asia.

She’ll return to Burma briefly and head to Europe in mid-June. Stops include Geneva and Oslo — to formally accept the Nobel Peace Prize she won 21 years ago.