Thaksin Shinawatra, Thailand’s former Prime Minister, has been granted parole after six months in the Police Hospital in Bangkok. Thaksin, 74, the patriarch of the Pheu Thai party, who returned to Thailand from self-exile in September, was sentenced to eight years in prison on corruption charges. Thailand’s King Vajiralongkorn reduced Thaksin’s sentence to one year … Continue reading Thailand’s Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra Freed