For 25 years, the influential Shinawatra dynasty has drawn ire as well as a dedicated following in Thailand. In an interview with the NZZ, patriarch Thaksin Shinawatra reveals why he chose to ally ...

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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 ...

Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the daughter of Thailand’s divisive former leader Thaksin Shinawatra, was sworn in as the country’s ...

Thailand's Parliament on Friday elected Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the youngest daughter of polarizing billionaire power broker Thaksin Shinawatra, as prime minister. The country's Constitutional ...

Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the heiress of Thailand's most famous political dynasty, was sworn in as prime minister on Friday, capping a month of turmoil in which her predecessor was thrown out of ...

TASS/. The House of Representatives, or the lower house of Thailand’s National Assembly (parliament), has approved Pheu Thai Party leader Paetongtarn Shinawatra as the Asian country’s new ...

Thailand's former PM Thaksin Shinawatra has been jailed upon returning to the country after 15 years in exile. But many believe he has struck a deal that will keep him from serving more than a ...

MEPs have confirmed that a letter sent to the deposed former Prime Minister of Thailand, Yingluck Shinawatra, is genuine and that their invitation to speak in Brussels, or Strasbourg, about the ...

BANGKOK--Thailand’s leading prime ministerial candidate, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, gave birth on Monday to a baby boy two weeks before elections in which she hopes to return to power the populist ...

BANGKOK -- The fall and rise of Thailand's two latest prime ministers can be traced in the share prices of their family companies in the fateful August week when Srettha Thavisin was ousted and ...

This summer, Paetongtarn Shinawatra made history. On Aug. 18, just days before her 38th birthday, she was confirmed as Thailand’s Prime Minister and Asia’s youngest-ever female leader. Her rise wasn’t ...