Thai new-elected PM holds meeting in Bangkok

Yingluck Shinawatra, leader of the Pheu Thai party which won the Thai parliamentary election, held meetings with her economic team to map out a way to deliver billions of doollars of populist policies without fuelling inflation and pacify critics who fear a return of her powerful brother Thaksin in Bangkok.

Female leaders around the world

Dilma Rousseff
【Dilma Rousseff】A former Marxist guerrilla who was tortured and imprisoned,was elected as Brazil's first female president.
Christine Lagarde
【Christine Lagarde】French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde was selected as the first female chief of the International Monetary Fund.
Julia Gillard
【Julia Gillard】Julia Eileen Gillard, a Welsh-born Australian politician, was selected as Australia's first female Prime Minister
Yingluck Shinawatra
【Yingluck Shinawatra】Thai opposition leader Yingluck Shinawatra, a political newcomer, prepared to lead her country after a stunning election victory.