Thailand's current Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra is Thaksin's daughter. Last year, Yingluck was cleared by a court on unrelated charges of mishandling funds for a government project in 2013.

A Thai court on Thursday ordered self-exiled former premier Yingluck Shinawatra to pay 10 billion baht ($305 million) in damages over a botched rice pledging scheme that saw her sentenced in 2017 ...

The Supreme Administrative Court ruling ordering former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra to compensate the state for damages caused by her government"s rice-pledging scheme between 2011 and 2014 ...

As the trial of former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra over an extravagant rice subsidy programme winds to a close, her rural supporters are resisting attempts by the ruling junta to ...

Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is supporting his sister, ex-premier Yingluck Shinawatra, in her bid to seek a retrial in the compensation case related to her administration's failed rice ...

A Thai court ordered former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra to pay a 10.03 billion baht ($306 million) fine for losses incurred under her administration’s controversial rice purchase program ...

FILE -Former Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra talks to reporters as she arrives at the Supreme Court for last day of the hearing in Bangkok, Thailand, July 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Sakchai ...

Yingluck, the first female prime minister of Thailand, came to power in 2011, five years after her brother, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, was toppled in a coup and fled abroad.

Yingluck, the first female prime minister of Thailand, came to power in 2011, five years after her brother, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, was toppled in a coup and fled abroad.