Ex-Thai PM's wife guilty of fraud :

The wife of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been convicted of tax fraud by a court in Bangkok.
Pojaman Shinawatra was sentenced to three years in prison, in the first of a series of cases against the family.
She, her brother Bannapot Damapong and her secretary were charged with trying to avoid paying 546m baht ($16.3m) in tax when transferring shares.
The trio were freed on bail of 5m baht ($149,000) each pending an appeal, Thai court officials said.
Mrs Thaksin's brother was sentenced to three years in jail, while her secretary was handed a two-year sentence.