Briefs
Springnews TV fined for breaching junta's order
DIGITAL STATION Springnews TV was yesterday fined Bt50,000 for airing a programme that violated the junta’s orders and broadcasting regulations, the broadcasting regulator said.
Pakdee Manaves, deputy secretary-general of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission, said the NBTC’s broadcasting committee agreed to punish Springnews.
The subcommittee overseeing broadcast content found that the station’s “Face Time” programme showed controversial content about a social-media scandal related to |student activist Netiwit Chotipatpaisal on July 20.
Doing so breached “national security” under the National Council for Peace and Order’s announcements No 97/2557 and No 103/2557 and Section 37 of the broadcasting regulations.
S KOREA SIGNS COOPERATION PACT FOR THAI WATER PROJECT
South Korea and Thailand agreed yesterday to check the feasibility of Thailand’s planned water-management project, a move that could lead to Seoul’s participation in the project valued at 680 billion won (Bt21.5 billion), the Yonhap official news agency reported from Seoul.
Under the memorandum of intent, South Korea will help review the technical feasibility of the two-stage water-management project, according to Korea’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.
The project mainly seeks to build floodways and reservoirs to help prevent annual floods, which killed more than 800 people in 2011 alone.
South Korea’s state-run K-Water was tapped as a preferred bidder for the construction |project in 2013, but it was scrapped after the coup in Thailand the following year.
The latest agreement signed by the Korean ministry and Thailand’s Agriculture Ministry says the sides will establish a joint working committee to discuss Seoul’s technical support for the project, the Korean ministry said in a press release.
