Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha speaks to reporters at Government House on Tuesday. (Photo: Wassana Nanuam)
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has denied that he intervened in news coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on army-run TV Channel 5 and said news reports should be free of “excessive analysis”.
At Government House on Tuesday, Gen Prayut denied a report he had ordered the army TV station to refrain from presenting news about the war and replace the channel’s president.
“I am not involved because I am not the army chief anymore,” said the prime minister, who is also the defence minister.
News programmes on the channel were its internal issue and it had a screening committee, he said.
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