BANGKOK: Embattled former Thai premier Yingluck Shinawatra faces up to ten years in prison after prosecutors on Friday said they will indict her on corruption charges over a controversial rice subsidy scheme -- a move that risks reigniting the country's bitter divisions.

Yingluck, the kingdom's first female premier and the sister of former leader Thaksin Shinawatra, is already facing an impeachment vote later on Friday over the populist program, which funnelled cash to her rural base but cost billions of dollars and inspired protests that felled her government.

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