http://www.mcot.net/content/0 MCOT Online http://www.mcot.net/content/365430 BANGKOK, May 16 -- Eight drug suspects, including members of a Malaysian transnational drug ring, were arrested with about 65 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine, also known as 'ice, were confiscated in two separate cases, according to Thai police. General News Wed, 16 May 2012 11:32:29 GMT http://www.mcot.net/content/365355 BANGKOK, May 16 -- The Crime Suppression Division (CSD) on Wednesday raided a rented house in Bangkok's Khan Na Yao district today, seizing the carcasses of two tigers, one panther and one fishing cat, and arrested one Thai and one Vietnamese. General News Wed, 16 May 2012 09:18:13 GMT http://www.mcot.net/content/365261 BANGKOK, May 16 – Some northern provinces were hit by heavy downpours and gusty winds and a woman was killed in Chonburi, southeast of Bangkok. General News Wed, 16 May 2012 05:20:40 GMT http://www.mcot.net/content/365035 BANGKOK, May 15 - A police officer was apprehended for involvement in the March 26 cash delivery truck robbery in which over Bt4 million was stolen and one employee was wounded by a gunman after his arrest warrant was issued by the court. General News Tue, 15 May 2012 11:07:42 GMT http://www.mcot.net/content/364608 BANGKOK, May 14 -- Three-fourths of the Thai capital’s residents responding to a poll said that the ongoing searing hot weather this summer season has affected their emotion, according to results released by a NIDA Poll. General News Mon, 14 May 2012 09:49:45 GMT http://www.mcot.net/content/364392 NARATHIWAT, May 14 - One soldier and five local residents were wounded in a grenade attack yesterday in the southern province of Narathiwat. General News Mon, 14 May 2012 04:12:01 GMT http://www.mcot.net/content/363487 BANGKOK, May 11 – Thailand’s Department of Special Investigation (DSI) led a joint operation of government agencies cracking down on the country's biggest pirate CD/DVD production house and confiscating a haul of pirated media estimated to be valued at many millions of baht as well as major caches of production equipment. General News Fri, 11 May 2012 11:37:17 GMT http://www.mcot.net/content/363387 BANGKOK, May 11 - A team of Thai police willing May 17-24 for a joint police investigation of the murder of 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong River on Oct 5 last year. General News Fri, 11 May 2012 09:06:27 GMT http://www.mcot.net/content/363381 BANGKOK, May 11 - One person was wounded as fire threatened the business offices of the upscale Le Concorde Tower in a prime Bangkok commercial area of Ratchadapisek on Friday. General News Fri, 11 May 2012 09:00:28 GMT http://www.mcot.net/content/363268 SURAT THANI, May 11 - The body of a Taiwan airlines pilot was recovered from the reservoir of a dam in this southern province after the tourist boat he was in capsized on Thursday. General News Fri, 11 May 2012 04:44:11 GMT http://www.mcot.net/content/362979 BANGKOK, May 10 - Following two industrial plant accidents last weekend in the eastern province of Rayong, the environmental activist non-governmental organisation Stop Global Warming Association (SGWA) petitioned the Supreme Administrative Court Thursday, asking it to order government agencies to revoke the operations permission certificates of Bangkok Synthetics and Aditya Birla Chemicals. General News Thu, 10 May 2012 09:56:34 GMT http://www.mcot.net/content/362702 RAYONG, May 9 -- The Eastern People’s Network plans moves to urge the government to solve the problems related to last weekend’s explosion and chemical leak in the Map Ta Phut industrial estate in the eastern province of Rayong and will file suit against an agency responsible for that. General News Wed, 09 May 2012 11:18:23 GMT http://www.mcot.net/content/362701 YALA, May 9 – A top advisor to the head of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) secretary-general’s visited Thailand’s southernmost province of Yala on Wednesday, saying that the region’s ongoing violence is not caused by religious conflicts. General News Wed, 09 May 2012 11:16:09 GMT http://www.mcot.net/content/362592 BANGKOK, May 9 -- At least five persons were hurt Wednesday in a cooking gas explosion at a steak house in downtown Bangkok’s Soi Rang Nam. General News Wed, 09 May 2012 08:34:17 GMT http://www.mcot.net/content/362474 BANGKOK, May 9 – Thailand's traditional soothsayers predicted an abundance of food production and an average supply of water during the coming rice growing season as indicated by the royal ploughing ceremony, marking the beginning of the planting season on Wednesday. General News Wed, 09 May 2012 03:49:47 GMT http://www.mcot.net/content/362109 BANGKOK, May 8 - The failure of the steel cable or wire rope supporting the platform carrying workers installing advertising banner on the exterior of Thailand's tallest building, Baiyoke Tower II, killing three men, was caused by being overloaded, according to the initial investigation. General News Tue, 08 May 2012 05:07:17 GMT http://www.mcot.net/content/361981 BANGKOK, May 7 - Thirty-five Laotian workers and a Thai national were arrested in Nakhon Nayok Monday while the workers hid in two pickup trucks trying to return to their home country, and 39 Cambodian workers were intercepted at Aranyaprathet while trying to enter Thailand under false pretenses. General News Mon, 07 May 2012 11:26:37 GMT http://www.mcot.net/content/361980 BANGKOK, May 7 - Three men were killed as they fell from the 68th floor of Thailand's tallest building, Baiyoke Tower II, as a cable supporting the platform carrying the workers installing the billboards parted. General News Mon, 07 May 2012 11:23:38 GMT http://www.mcot.net/content/361968 NONTHABURI, May 7 - Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said on Monday she has instructed the industry ministry to step up safety measures by inspecting all factories every three months in the aftermath of serious accidents in two plants in industrial estates in the eastern province of Rayong over the weekend. General News Mon, 07 May 2012 10:24:26 GMT http://www.mcot.net/content/361831 NAKHON SI THAMMARAT, May 7 - The body of a four-year-old boy was found in this southern province after he was carried away and drowned in a flash flood while swimming Sunday with his father and brother at a Tha Sala district waterfall. General News Mon, 07 May 2012 05:31:48 GMT