Paetongtarn is the third Shinawatra to hold the job, after her billionaire father and her aunt Yingluck Shinawatra ... by the king on the occasion of his birthday in late July.

Paetongtarn, 37, will be Thailand's youngest prime minister and its second woman in the role, after her aunt Yingluck Shinawatra. Paetongtarn was named head of her father's Pheu Thai Party last ...

Paetongtarn is the third Shinawatra to hold the job, after her billionaire father and her aunt Yingluck Shinawatra. Notably, Thaksin's sister Yingluck Shinawatra was Thailand's first female prime ...

Paetongtarn’s father and Yingluck’s brother, former telecommunications tycoon Thaksin Shinawatra was himself toppled in a 2006 military coup. Both Thaksin and Yingluck live in self-imposed ...

Thaksin Shinawatra has acknowledged the reality that he cannot bring his sister Yingluck back home for the Songkran festival this year as he had earlier foreshadowed. Shortly after returning from ...

His brother-in-law, Somchai Wongsawat, and his youngest sister, Yingluck Shinawatra, both served as prime ministers after him and were forced out of office on legal grounds before their terms were up.