Thai PM orders media to stop 'presenting news' on Thaksin

November 03, 2014 20:00

Thailand's junta leader today threatened to tighten controls of the media unless they stop "presenting news" about former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, after photographs of the billionaire cuddling a panda went viral.

Thaksin, who was ousted in a 2006 coup as prime minister and lives abroad to avoid jail for a corruption conviction, sits at the epicentre of Thailand's near decade-long political rupture.

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