The wife of Thailand’s deposed premier Thaksin Shinawatra will seek 1.4 billion dollars in compensation from military-backed authorities that have frozen her assets, a lawyer said Thursday. Pojaman Shinawatra will file the suit in civil court on Friday to demand that the military’s Assets Examination Committee (AEC) release 2.5 billion baht (73.9 million dollars) of her money that was frozen as part of investigations into alleged corruption by her husband, the lawyer said. Full Story