BBC set up its shortwave relay station in Nakhon Sawan province under an agreement that Thai and British governments had signed on July 14, 1994. The station relay signals directly from London for BBC programmes in eight languages, excluding Thai, to all of Asia. BBC had taken months before proposing its draft agreement to Thailand, which had regularly followed up on the issue. Consequently, the relay station had to suspend its transmission temporarily on Jan 1 pending the extension, Ms Busadee said. That was the unilateral decision of BBC, Ms Busadee said.

Source: Bangkok Post March 09, 2017 11:16 UTC