Supporters of ousted former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra wait for her outside the Supreme Court in Bangkok, Thailand, August 5, 2016. Ousted former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra defended her management of a rice subsidy scheme, which critics say haemorrhaged billions of dollars, and told a court on Friday it had not distorted global prices. Yingluck was banned from politics for five years in January 2015 after a military-appointed legislature found her guilty of mismanaging the rice scheme. "We found that the rice policy could increase people's income and the price of rice for farmers," Yingluck told the Supreme Court north of the capital, Bangkok. The rice scheme cost the state 286 billion baht ($8.20 billion), it said.

Source: Thanhnien News August 06, 2016 05:03 UTC