The BBC will re-open its Thai-language service for three months to provide alternative news after local media have been censored by the junta, according to the Telegraph [1]. 

 

The Telegraph reported on Wednesday that the operation will start this Thursday and will available only on a digital platform.

 

“The BBC Thai initiative is a three-month experiment in how to respond to the imposition of dictatorship in a formerly democratic state,” the report said. 

 

The BBC Thai Service started in 1941 and was closed in January 2006, a few months before the 2006 military coup d’état.