Thai lawmakers elected U.S.-educated businesswoman Yingluck Shinawatra as the country's first female prime minister Friday, setting the stage for the 44-year-old political novice to take charge ...

Yingluck Shinawatra is a 44-year-old businesswoman with no political experience other ... She earned a master's degree from Kentucky State University and has since been president of the country's ...

Yingluck Shinawatra made history when she became Thailand's first female prime minister in 2011 on a wave of popular support. But she was plagued by criticism over her governance and links to her ...

Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra took to social media on Thursday to defend herself against a ruling by the Supreme Administrative Court, which ordered her to pay over 10 billion baht in ...

Yingluck Shinawatra, 44, ... Yingluck attended Chiang Mai University and graduated with a master’s degree in public administration from Kentucky State University in the United States.

On Wednesday, Thailand's Constitutional Court ordered Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to step down immediately after finding that she violated the constitution by transferring a national ...

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 ...

Embattled Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is to be investigated for corruption relating to a controversial rice-pledging scheme, the latest obstacle for the 46-year-old premier who is ...

No-one should be surprised that Thailand’s former prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, has been impeached by the military-appointed National Legislative Assembly. This was one more act in a ...