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Thai Anticorruption Panel Adds to Political Uncertainty

Body Considering Sending Lower House Lawmakers to Impeachment Trial

Jan. 7, 2014 10:03 a.m. ET

BANGKOK—Thailand's anticorruption agency said Tuesday it was considering sending a majority of the lawmakers in the lower house to an impeachment trial in the Senate, throwing the country's political outlook further into doubt.

The National Anti-Corruption Commission cleared Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and 72 other legislators, but said there was sufficient evidence to investigate 308 others for allegedly breaking Thai laws by...

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