The BBC has ended efforts to renew its licence to re-broadcast news to Asia from shortwave towers in Thailand. Britain's BBC has announced it is ending its shortwave transmissions from Thailand after 20 years of operation because it failed to reach agreement with Thailand's military government on a renewal of its operating permit. Given the financial constraints faced by the whole of the BBC, we have reluctantly decided to shut the site," it said. East Asia was the primary area served by the transmitters in Nakhon Sawan in central Thailand. The BBC moved its East Asia relay station to Thailand from Hong Kong after the handover of the British colony to China in 1997.

Source: Bangkok Post March 09, 2017 01:51 UTC