The drugs bust is one of the kingdom's largest in years and reflects soaring production of amphetamine-type stimulants in Myanmar, which is emerging from decades of military rule.
Six people were arrested in two related seizures of the pills, known as yaba - "crazy medicine" - found at a house in Nonthaburi near Bangkok and in a truck in the central province of Phetchabun, authorities said.
"We seized around 5.3 million yaba pills worth around one billion baht," Police Lieutenant General Surapol Thuanthong of the Narcotics Suppression Bureau told AFP.
He said the pills were produced in Myanmar and smuggled through the Golden Triangle region, where the remote edges of Thailand, Myanmar and Laos meet.
"Now production is increasing because it makes a lot of profits," Surapol said.
"Minority groups have small factories to make them."
It is estimated that at least 1.4 billion yaba tablets - with an estimated street value of $US8.5 billion - are being produced each year in the Golden Triangle region, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
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Source: http://www.news.myanmaronlinecentre.com/2013/10/26/thailand-seizes-meth-pills-worth-us30m/
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