<p>The Thai junta has refused to extend a permit for the BBC to run one of its major global transmission stations located in central Thailand.</p> <p>The BBC World Service&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bangkokbiznews.com/news/detail/744153">has stopped broadcasting programmes</a>&nbsp;from its transmission station located in Nakhon Sawan Province.</p> <p>The station had been broadcasting uncensored foreign-language news into authoritarian countries such as North Korea and China, and countries which still rely significantly on radio, such as Afghanistan and Pakistan.</p>

<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>