Worried you might be holding one of the counterfeit 1,000-baht notes in circulation? Police have advised people they can do a simple check to tell whether their banknotes are real or fake.

A 50-year-old Kalasin woman has been arrested for having in her possession and using fake US dollar banknotes. She implicated the wife of an upper northern province senator as the person who had hired her to exchange the fake banknotes with banks.