Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has been found guilty of criminal negligence and sentenced in absentia to five years in prison. The Supreme Court convicted her of mishandling a rice ...

Yingluck Shinawatra left Thailand ahead of a Supreme Court verdict in a negligence trial brought by the junta that overthrew her, sources close to her family told Reuters. The 50-year-old former ...

Six years ago Yingluck Shinawatra, a novice who had only been in politics for two months, led the Pheu Thai party, founded and funded by her older brother Thaksin, to a resounding election victory.

Thailand’s former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra was sentenced in absentia today to five years in prison for criminal negligence in a trial brought by the junta that overthrew her.

He was convicted of corruption in the rice-pledging scheme under the Yingluck administration. (Photo: Panumet Tanraksa) The release on parole of convicts in the rice scandal case one after ...

Vladimir Putin met with Prime Minister of Thailand Yingluck Shinawatra on the sidelines of the APEC summit Source: Kremlin.Ru- Wikimedia Commons- CC BY 4.0 What are the real reasons why former ...