Former Thai PM on trial for rice scheme

Thailand’s former prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, has pleaded not guilty at the start of a trial that could see her jailed for a decade, and which critics say is part of a politically motivated campaign against her family.

Supporters chanted “Yingluck! Yingluck!” as the ex-premier entered the Supreme Court in Bangkok to be formally read the charges against her of dereliction of duty in overseeing a rice subsidy scheme that lost billions of dollars.