Yingluck fled the country in 2017, shortly before a court ruling on her administration's failed rice-pledging scheme. The Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Persons Holding Political Positions ...

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Dr Warong Detkitvikrom, chairman of the Thai Pakdee Party, who has shown he isn't known as the "buster of rice pledging corruption" for nothing, recently chimed in on why he thinks Yingluck will be ...

Paetongtarn Shinawatra, daughter of former prime minister Thaksin, became the youngest politician, at the age of 37, and ...

Thaksin's sister Yingluck Shinawatra was Thailand’s first female prime minister from 2011 to 2014. An in-law also served briefly in 2008. Although Thaksin was a vastly popular politician who ...

Suporn Attawong, a Red Shirt leader, even organized a private army to support then-Prime Minister Yingluck. But everything changed when he was temporarily detained after the 2014 coup.