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Thaksin, Yingluck in Vegas flogging hi-tech DNA gadget

By THE NATION

 

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Thailand’s sibling self-exiled former prime ministers Thaksin and Yingluck Shinawatra are at the world’s biggest tech fair in Las Vegas this week touting a gizmo in which they’ve both invested.

 

Yingluck posted photos on Facebook showing her and her elder brother at the Consumer Electronics Show continuing through Friday (January 10) in the US gambling capital.

 

Yingluck explained that they had invested in a firm that combines telecommunications technology – Thaksin’s original business line – with an innovation in DNA testing.

 

The tech enables fast and accurate DNA testing without the need for laboratory analysis, she said. It will appeal to health-conscious consumers wishing to base their diet on their DNA and reduce their reliance on medicine in disease prevention.

 

Yingluck said prototype units will soon be available for testing at a place called DNA Nudge in London’s Covent Gardens, where she unveiled the product last year.

 

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Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30380313

 

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-- © Copyright The Nation Thailand 2020-01-09
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Thailand's fugitive ex-PM siblings tout new DNA venture at Vegas expo

 

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FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: Former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra greets supporters as she arrives at the Supreme Court in Bangkok, Thailand, August 1, 2017. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha/File Photo

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - They are both former prime ministers and officially Thailand's most-wanted siblings, but in exile abroad, ousted Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra and his sister Yingluck have turned to the more modest task of promoting a DNA nutrition app at a convention in Las Vegas.

 

The pair appeared on Wednesday at the Consumer Electronics Show 2020 in Vegas, an annual technology and electronics industry expo running from Jan. 7-10, to promote one of their investments.

 

They were photographed at the booth of DNANudge, a company that uses a cheek swab containing a person's DNA to recommend dietary choices, according to its website.

 

"My brother and I are here at Consumer Electronic Show 2020 (CES 2020) Las Vegas, the United States, launching our business we invested (in) and just launched in London," Yingluck said in a post on Twitter.

 

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FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra speaks to Reuters during an interview in Singapore February 23, 2016. REUTERS/Edgar Su/File Photo

 

Back home in Thailand, both had been ousted during military coups, Thaksin in 2006, and his sister in 2014.

 

The 2014 coup maker is the Southeast Asian nation's current prime minister, Prayuth Chan-ocha.

 

The pro-Thaksin Pheu Thai party is currently the largest opposition party in Thailand.

 

Thaksin, a former telecommunications tycoon, said he had been working on DNANudge with its founders for the past three years.

 

"I'm of advanced age and don't want to invest in something too big ... but we think this product can really change the world," 70-year-old Thaksin said in a video on Facebook.

 

Thaksin and Yingluck, who occasionally write posts on social media to engage their followers, are in self-exile from Thailand to avoid corruption convictions they say are politically motivated.

 

Thaksin, who was prime minister from 2001 to 2006, was found guilty of corruption in 2008. Yingluck, who is 52, was prime minister from 2011 to 2014, and was found guilty of dereliction of duty in a failed rice subsidy program.

 

(Reporting by Chayut Setboonsarng, Panarat Thepgumpanat and Patpicha Tanakasempipat; Editing by Bernadette Baum)

 

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-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-01-10
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looked it up all about what is good food for your body.what passports do they travel on and why not arrest them if everyone knows where they are.once again they are saying look at us we are free and all the money we got out of Thailand.interpol and the government just can,t be bothered to do anything it seems

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