Thai former PM Yingluck gets five-year jail term for negligence

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's ousted former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra was handed a five-year prison sentence on Wednesday after the country's highest court found her guilty of negligence in the management of a rice subsidy scheme.

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