Thailand Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was forced to step down today after being found guilty of abusing her power by improperly demoting a top civil servant in 2011. The WSJ's Southeast Asia ...

Paetongtarn Shinawatra, daughter of former prime minister Thaksin, became the youngest politician, at the age of 37, and second woman following in the footsteps of her aunt Yingluck, to hold the ...

Paetongtarn, 37, will be Thailand's youngest prime minister and its second woman in the role, after her aunt Yingluck Shinawatra. Paetongtarn was named head of her father's Pheu Thai Party last ...

coming from the powerful Shinawatra family. Her aunt Yingluck Shinawatra previously held the position. A candidate requires at least 247 votes to become the Southeast Asian ...

His sister, Yingluck Shinawatra, was overthrown in a coup in 2014. During the censure debate, opposition leader Rangsiman Rome of People’s Party, accused the prime minister of trying to protect her ...

Paetongtarn is also the niece of Yingluck Shinawatra, who was Thai prime minister from 2011 to 2014 before she was removed in a coup. In the censure debate on Tuesday, opposition MPs reportedly ...

The man who commands this domain is a significant figure: Prime minister in the early 2000s, brother and confidant to former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, and father to the current leader ...

Both former prime ministers Thaksin Shinawatra and his sister Yingluck Shinawatra were seen at the Cecil Street market and a food court in Weld Quay on Wednesday (Sept 21).

Thaksin Shinawatra has acknowledged the reality that he cannot bring his sister Yingluck back home for the Songkran festival this year as he had earlier foreshadowed.Shortly after returning from ...

Thailand's Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra survived a no-confidence vote today, after the country's main opposition reportedly accused her of being unqualified and allowing her father to ...