Sister act

摘要

HER friends say that Yingluck Shinawatra is a quick learner. That explains, they say, why the 44-year-old businesswoman shows such poise whe: she has never run for office before. But she is not quite the ingenue she seems. Ms Yingluck comes from an intensely political family. Her father was an mp and her elder brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, now in exile, was prime minister. On the campaign trail she surrounded herself with seasoned veterans from her brother's time in power; it looked very much like a family firm at work.