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Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is still waiting for political asylum status to be granted by the UK, a source from Pheu Thai Party said on January 7.

A Bangkok court on August 25 sentenced former Thai commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom to 42 years in prison after finding him guilty of falsifying government-to-government rice deals between Thailand and China.

The National Anti-Corruption Committee of Thailand expects to wrap up its probe into alleged dereliction of duty by former PM Yingluck Shinawatra and 33 former cabinet members in her administration by September, local media reported on July 27.

Thailand’s Ministry of Justice and lawyers of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on July 25 affirmed that Thai authorities have frozen seven bank accounts belonging to the ex-PM.

Thailand’s Supreme Court has set August 25 as the date for a verdict in the trial of former Prime Minister (PM) Yingluck Shinawatra, who is accused of wasting billions of US dollar on a controversial rice-pledging scheme.

Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has attended the last hearing of a court case over a rice-pledging scheme under her administration.

Up to 302 officials from the Public Warehouse Organisation and Marketing Organisation For Farmers along with many warehouse owners and surveyors have been charged with malfeasance in connection with the Yingluck government’s controversial rice pledging scheme, Thai media reported on April 2.

The Thai justice ministry has received a list of 6,000 state officials suspected of being involved in a malfeasance leading to losses worth over 4 billion USD in the Yingluck administration.

The Commerce Ministry of Thailand has set a target of selling 10 million tonnes of rice remaining in the country’s warehouses.

Thailand’s former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra will be at the Supreme Court on January 15 for the first hearing in her rice-pledging scheme trial, her lawyer said on January 14.

Thailand’s Pheu Thai Party, or the red shirts, issued a statement on October 22 defending former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra for the controversial rice pledging scheme that cost the nation bill