BANGKOK – Former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra can ask the military junta for a permission to extend her stay abroad, a top military officer said.

Ms. Yingluck left the country for Europe late last month, ostensibly to visit her brother former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in France. She had promised to return to Thailand to fight the corruption charges that the national anti-graft body filed against her. However, there is an intense speculation that she will go into a foreign exile.

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