Yingluck Shinawatra

Thai ex-PM Yingluck ordered to pay $393m in damages over rice scheme

FILE PHOTO: Ousted former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra greets supporters as she arrives at the Supreme Court in Bangkok, Thailand, August 1, 2017. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha/File Photo

Exiled former PM Yingluck to return to Thailand, undergo legal process

Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra walks across the atrium of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) Building Complex in Bandar Seri Begawan on 24 April 2013. She was in Brunei for the 22nd ASEAN Summit.

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Thai govt’s bid to sell old rice brings back bad memories linked to Yingluck

Thai commerce minister Phumtham Wechayahai has eaten it. So has premier Srettha Thavisin. In recent days, the Pheu Thai-led Cabinet has revived political ghosts by eating rice that has been stockpiled for ten years under the disastrous rice subsidy scheme implemented by Yingluck Shinawatra’s administration. They claim the rice can be sold. The rice-pledging scheme eventually resulted in a court case over criminal negligence that forced Yingluck to flee overseas, after which she was jailed for five years in absentia.

Former PM Yingluck, other political exiles welcome to return: Srettha

Former premier Yingluck Shinawatra was sentenced in absentia to five years in jail for failing to stop the fake, corruption-plagued government-to-government rice deal.

Boon for Thailand’s Shinawatras as court clears ex-PM Yingluck of negligence

Ousted former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra greets supporters as she arrives at the Supreme Court in Bangkok, Thailand, July 21, 2017. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha/File Photo

Jailed Thai ex-PM Thaksin qualifies for parole next month

FILE PHOTO: Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who is expected to be arrested upon his return as he ends almost two decades of self-imposed exile, waves at Don Mueang airport in Bangkok, Thailand August 22, 2023. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha/File Photo

Most Thais oppose plan for coalition govt with military-backed groups, poll shows

An opinion poll has Pheu Thai's Paetongtarn Shinawatra as the one most Thais prefer to rule as prime minister.

Former Thai PM Thaksin seen in Cambodia after delaying return from exile

This photo taken on August 5, 2023 shows Thailand’s former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra (2nd L) offering gift to General Hun Manet (2nd R), Commander of the Royal Cambodian Army and eldest son of Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen, during Hun Sen’s birthday in Phnom Penh. (Photo by AFP)

Thailand's fugitive ex-PM siblings tout new DNA venture at Vegas expo

Thailand's ex-commerce minister gets 48 years in jail over Yingluck administration's rice-pledging scheme

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