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Yingluck Shinawatra
Prime Minister of Thailand from to
Yingluck ShinawatraMPChMWM (Thai: ยิ่งลักษณ์ ชินวัตร, RTGS:&#;Yinglak Chinnawat, pronounced[jîŋ.láktɕʰīn.nā.wát]ⓘ; born 21 June ) is a Thai businesswoman, politician and a member of the Pheu Thai Party who became the 28th prime minister of Thailand following the election. Yingluck was Thailand's first female prime minister and its youngest in over 60 years. She was removed from office on 7 May by a Constitutional Court decision.[1][2]
Born in Chiang Mai Province into a wealthy family of HakkaChinese descent,[3][4] Yingluck Shinawatra earned a bachelor's degree from Chiang Mai University and a master's degree from Kentucky State University, both in public administration.[5] She then became an executive in the businesses founded by her elder brother, Thaksin Shinawatra and later became the president of property developerSC Asset and managing director of Adva
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Capturing Yingluck
Over the years I often photographed Yingluck Shinawatra, and several times I even had the opportunity to talk with her. Now, as Yingluck has finally fled Thailand, and every political pundit speculates what will take place in Thai politics after she supposedly joined Thaksin—and an increasing amount of Thai political dissidents—in exile, inom want to present a brief pictorial essay on how inom experienced the career of Thailand’s first female prime minister.
The first time inom saw and photographed Yingluck was during a birthday bash for her elder brother on 26 July , in the huge kinesisk Mangkorn Luang Restaurant in Bang Na. At the time she was just one of Thaksin’s siblings, and nobody expected that one day she would be Thailand’s prime minister. She was charming and very patient with both photographers and Red Shirts who liked to be photographed with her and her elder sister Yaowapa—who was at the time a far more powerful person in the party hierarchy, an
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Yingluck defends globe-trotting
Yingluck Shinawatra has justified her overseas trips amid criticism from the Democrat Party that the prime minister should spend more time in Parliament and less in other countries.
Lt Col Ladda Tammy Duckworth, a Thai-born Democrat representative for Illinois, left, calls on Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra at Government House on Thursday. (Photo by Chanat Katanyu)
"The visits are aimed at fostering relations (with other countries) and open up trade opportunities,'' Ms Yingluck told Parliament on Thursday.
The prime minister was adamant that the visits would pay off in more foreign investment in the country which was important amid the global economic uncertainty.
Ms Yingluck has gone to about two dozen countries since taking office. Her latest trip was to Tajikistan and Pakistan from Aug
Her next scheduled trip is to travel to Nanning in China from Sept to attend the China-Asean Expo , government spokesman Teerat Ratanasevi said on Thu