BANGKOK, Aug 08 (AP/UNB) - As she marks a year in office this week as Thailand's first female prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra's biggest boast could be about what hasn't happened during that time: a return to the chaos that has wracked the country for much of the past six years.
 
Her achievement is all the more remarkable because she is the sister of the man at the center of Thailand's long-running political maelstrom, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Thaksin was deposed by a military coup in 2006 after being accused of corruption and disrespect for the king.
 
Friends and foes alike acknowledge that Yingluck's main task has been to keep the engine of Thaksin's political machine ticking over while seeking arrangements for his return from exile, where he fled to avoid a two-year jail term.