Bangkok (AFP) - Ousted Thai premier Yingluck Shinawatra said Friday she would fight a junta order demanding she personally pay nearly $1 billion in compensation for a rice policy critics say was riddled with graft.
Yingluck, Thailand's first female premier, was removed from office by a court days before the army seized power in a 2014 coup.
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