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Channel 5 is the second oldest television station in Thailand, owned and operated by the Royal Thai Army, and as such features, among others, programming devoted to the Royal Thai Armed Forces. Channel 5 completely ceased its analog broadcast on 21 June 2018 at 9:30am [ 3 ] as part of its digital switchover.
Thailand changed from traditional absolute monarchy into a constitutional one in 1932, while Bhutan changed in 2008. Cambodia had its own monarchy after independence from the French Colonial Empire, which was deposed after the Khmer Rouge came into power. The monarchy was subsequently restored in the peace agreement of 1993. Other sovereign ...
Since 2000, the role of the Thai monarchy has been increasingly challenged by scholars, students, media, observers and traditionalists, and as pro-democracy interests began to express their speech. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] Many deemed that a series of laws and measures relating to lèse majesté in Thailand are hindrances to freedom of expression.
A prominent activist jailed and made famous over his public call for reforms to Thailand's powerful monarchy was given four more years in prison for another violation of the country's royal ...
Thai politics and monarchy Throughout much of its coup-prone modern history Thailand has been run by a small but powerful clique that maintains deep ties to the military, royalist and business ...
A Thai appeal court on Thursday extended a man’s prison sentence to a record 50 years for insulting the monarchy, in what is believed to be the toughest penalty ever imposed under the country ...
Channel 5: Royal Thai Army Radio and Television Royal Thai Army: 25 January 1958 5 5 Bangkok Bangkok 5:00 a.m. – Midnight (Next Day) HSATV (Channel 7) 21 June 2018 (09:29) [9] Channel 7: Bangkok Broadcasting & T.V. Company Limited (BBTV) Bangkok Broadcasting & T.V. Company Limited (BBTV) Royal Thai Army 27 November 1967 7 (VHF) 35
The Government of Thailand, officially the Royal Thai Government (RTG; Thai: รัฐบาลไทย, RTGS: Ratthaban Thai, pronounced [rát.tʰā.bāːn tʰāj]), is the unitary government of the Kingdom of Thailand. The country emerged as a modern nation state after the foundation of the Chakri dynasty and the city of Bangkok in 1782. [2]