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Thaksin Shinawatra
Thaksin Shinawatra (born July 26, 1949) is a former Prime Minister of Thailand and founder of the Thai Rak Thai Party, who was exiled after a 2006 coup.
He returned to the Thailand in 2023, was imprisoned, and granted parole in February 2024.[5]
Heritage and early life
[change | change source]Thaksin's great-grandfather, Seng Saekhu (Khu Chun Seng 丘春盛), was an ethnic Chinese Hakka immigrant from Fengshun, Guangdong, China, who arrived in Siam in the 1860s and settled in Chiang Mai in 1908.
Thaksin shinawatra biography definition
His eldest son, Chiang Saekhu, was born in Chanthaburi in 1890 and married a local named Saeng Samana. Chiang's eldest son, Sak, adopted the Thai surname Shinawatra in 1938 because of the country's pro-Central Thai movement, and the rest of the family also adopted it.[6]
Seng Saekhu had made his fortune through tax farming.
Chiang Saekhu/Shinawatra later founded Shinawatra Silks and then moved into finance, construction, and property development.