Bangkok  - Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International Airport resumed full operations Friday after being shut down for a week by protestors as part of their campaign to topple the government.

More than 100 international and domestic flights were expected to use the airport on Friday, said the Bangkok Post online news service.

Acting Transport Minister Santi Promphat together with officials from the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) inspected Suvarnabhumi's readiness Friday morning.

Bangkok - Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej on Thursday did not show up to deliver his annual birthday-eve speech at Chitralada Palace for the first time in decades. He will turn 81 on Friday.

His daughter, Princes Maha Chakkri Sirinthorn, said the king was having trouble swallowing his food and suffering from congestion.

Bangkok, Dec. 4 : Flights have begun operating from Bangkok''s two airports, almost a week after the city was brought to a complete standstill by opposition protests.

However, airport officials have said that a full schedule will not resume for another day.

The Suvarnabhumi Airport was taking in a limited number of international flights and flights are leaving for Australia and Europe.

A halt was called to the blockade of the country''s two main airports on Wednesday after a Tuesday court ruling that deposed the prime minister and banned the three ruling parties due to charges of electoral fraud.

According to the BBC, the protesters agreed to leave the airports after the prime minister resigned.

Bangkok, Dec. 3 : Thailand''s ruling People’s Power Party has been dissolved and Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat has been dismissed from office by a court ruling on Tuesday after weeks of protests.

According to The Telegraph, the judgment was greeted with jubilation by anti-government protesters who overran Bangkok’s airports last week, demanding that the government step down.

“We have won a victory and achieved our aims,” declared the protest leader Sondhi Limthongkul.

Bangkok  - Thousands of anti-government protestors ended their occupation of Bangkok's two airports Wednesday, ending a week-long siege that crippled the country's tourism and exports sectors.

The People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) announced late Tuesday night that it would lift its siege of Suvarnabhumi International Airport and Don Mueang after achieving its political objective of forcing Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat out of his post, and blocking constitutional amendments that might have led to a return to politics of former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, their nemesis.

The PAD promised to leave the two airports by mid-day Wednesday. The demonstrators have also evacuated Government House, which they seized on August 26.

Bangkok - Anti-government protestors on Tuesday agreed to allow flights to resume at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International Airport, which they have held hostage for a week, but they refused to end their protests at the facility, media reports said.

The agreement was announced by Somkiat Pongpaibool, a leader of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) and Vudhibhandhu Vichairatana, chairman of the Airports of Thailand (AoT), following their meeting Tuesday afternoon, said The Nation online news service.

Flights will resume after AoT technical officials check the technical readiness of all systems, said Somkiat.