The United Kingdom is reported to have granted a ten-year visa to former Thailand prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who has been ruled in absentia to a five-year prison term back home for her role in her government’s rice-pledging scandal.

THAILAND has become one of the prime targets in Southeast Asia for the advanced persistent threats (APTs) that have been hitting computing networks around the world, said Noushin Shahab, a senior security researcher at Kaspersky Lab.