Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin presided over a signing ceremony for a cooperative agreement between Thailand and China in the field of mass media and communication. The agreement aims to strengthen information sharing to combat fake news and misinformation.

<div> <p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b104fa98-391e-be25-1ca2-d0b82806f045">Amnesty International &nbsp;(AI) Thailand on Thursday announced the 2014 human rights media awards for the Thai media. Prachatai English’s news story received an honourable mention in the online media category.&nbsp;</span></p> </div>

<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ac8a56d1-7c02-3ee6-0ad5-4615bf63fa79">Thailand’s junta leader threw a banana peel at a cameraman’s head after getting annoyed at being asked to face the camera too many times.</span></p>

<p>Prime Minister and junta chief Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha returned from an official visit to Vietnam in his normal relaxed mood and engaged in his regular jovial banter with the media. &nbsp;They had been hearing from ministers and such that the elections won’t be happening next year as expected and wanted to hear the truth from the head honcho himself.</p> <p>‘What do you want from me?’ the General expostulated. &nbsp;‘I have just returned from meetings, exhausted and sleepless. Why don’t you ask whether I am tired instead of going on about the election and constitution?’</p>

<p><a href="http://en.khaosod.co.th/detail.php?newsid=1408955527&amp;typecate=06&amp;section=">Khaosod English</a>: Thailand’s military junta has repealed an order that shut down fourteen satellite TV channels shortly after the army declared nationwide martial law in May.</p>

<div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Thailand’s Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT) has blocked access to two Prachatai English news stories on the alleged torture of red-shirt activist Kritsuda Khunasen, without giving any explanation to the online news outlet. </div>

<div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The junta’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) on Saturday reprimanded ASTV-Manager Weekly magazine for discrediting the junta.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>NCPO Order No. 108 stated that issue 253 of the magazine, published on July 23, contained “several issues” based on “false information with dishonest intention” and that the magazine intended to “destroy the credibility of the NCPO.”&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>This is a violation of NCPO Order No. </div></div>

<div>&nbsp;</div> <div>After the junta last Friday issued Order No. 97, prohibiting media from criticizing the junta and that any media outlet dare to criticize the junta would be shut down, on Monday night the junta’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) withdrew its order.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The latest announcement, issued Monday night, amended the Order No. </div>

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<div>&nbsp;</div> <div> <div>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 <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/thailand/10955996/BBC-takes-on-Thailand-dictatorship-with-a-pop-up-Thai-service.html">the Telegraph</a>.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The Telegraph reported on Wednesday that the operation will start this Thursday and will available only on a digital platform.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>“The BBC Thai initiative is a three-month experiment in how to respon </div></div>

<div>&nbsp;</div> <div> <div>Military officers directly ordered a newspaper not to publish a story on an anti-coup group, according to a Vice-President of the Thai Journalist Association (TJA).</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On Tuesday 24 June, military officers reportedly visited the newsroom of a newspaper and instructed the editorial staff not to report the establishment of Free Thais for Human Rights and Democracy (FTHD), an anti-coup group in exile. </div></div>

<div>&nbsp;</div> <div> <div>Thai junta has set up working groups to monitor all media channels and will censor media that spreads information which leads to “hatred toward the monarchy,” or which is false.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Police General Adul Saengsingkaew, Commissioner-General of the Royal Thai Police, in his capacity as Deputy Leader of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), the junta’s temporary administrative body, told the Thai media on Tuesday that bodies have been set up to monitor different types of media:&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>- Broadcast media will </div></div>