Prayuth: No noodles for Yongluck


Thailands former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra answers a question at parliament in Bangkok, Thailand Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015. Thailands military-appointed legislature is set to vote on impeachment against Yingluck over a governments rice subsidy scheme on Friday. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

BANGKOK: Thailand’s junta chief said the military is keeping such a close eye on ousted prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra (pic) that she would be unable to eat a bowl of noodles without their permission.

Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, a former army general, was justifying the decision to have soldiers search a convoy taking Yingluck to a ceremony for her ancestors in her northern hometown of Chiangmai earlier in the week.

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