Two programs on Voice TV, Tonight Thailand and Wake Up News, spread information that caused public confusion and divisiveness, said the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission, without elaborating. “The NBTC ordered Voice TV to improve itself with a suspension of the operating license for 15 days,” said Perapong Manakit, one of the commissioners. Voice TV is owned by two children of Thaksin, who was ousted in a coup in 2006 and who has lived in self-imposed exile since 2008 to avoid corruption charges he says were politically motivated. Some of the episodes mentioned in a copy of the NBTC order, published by Voice TV, featured interviews with two prime minister candidates from Thaksin’s Pheu Thai party. Voice TV has previously been shut down twice, two days before the 2014 coup, which brought down Thaksin’s sister, then Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, and in 2017.

Source: bd News24 February 12, 2019 11:15 UTC