New post: Paetongtarn delivering a speech during the annual Pheu Thai party meeting in Khon Kaen province. — AP
The youngest daughter of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose ouster by a military coup in 2006 triggered years of political instability, has taken a post with a party closely associated with her father.
Thailand’s largest opposition party, Pheu Thai, announced on Thursday that Paetongtarn Shinawatra was named chief of its Inclusion and Innovation Advisory Committee at its general assembly in the northeastern province of Khon Kaen.
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