11.   Gen. Heng Pao, chief of the narcotics police, told The Associated Press that laboratory tests confirmed the seized drug was cocaine.

12.   INTERIOR Minister Sanan Kachornprasart Sunday ordered the closure of a restaurant in the Mandarin Hotel, after narcotics police raided a function on the premises on Saturday night.

13.   It was displayed Wednesday at the office of the narcotics police.

14.   Narcotics police seized the drugs.

15.   Narcotics police said Negril has become a transshipment point for drugs originating from Colombia and destined to North America and the United Kingdom.

16.   Recently, narcotics police arrested five Chinese for drug trafficking, and three others were jailed last month for kidnapping a Cambodian woman.

17.   Police will also conduct surveillance training with Philippines narcotics police, he said.

18.   Stealing up on the abandoned building from behind, the narcotics police burst in on a murky, cobwebbed room used as an opium den.

19.   Tension between Thai narcotics police and the Hmong hill tribes has been building up in recent months as authorities have stepped up their activities to combat methamphetamine abuse.

20.   Thai newspapers cited senior narcotics police as saying they had no evidence implicating Thanong in any drug networks and that he would not be put under surveillance.