Shinawatra's party in line for victory in Thai elections

Exit polls in Thailand are showing the party allied to ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has won an absolute majority in the fractious country’s tense election.

Two major polling organisations gave Yingluck Shinawatra’s Pheu Thai party far more than the 250 of 500 seats it would need to form the next government. Yingluck is Thaksin’s sister.