Hong Kong  - The widow of a Hong Kong man killed in a car crash as he travelled across Thailand to try to catch a flight out of the country was due to arrive back home Wednesday.

Fung Man-wai suffered only minor injuries in the minibus accident on Monday that killed her husband David Yick Hok-wing and a Canadian man and also left a British woman tourist seriously injured.

Fung and Yik were passengers in a minibus taking tourists from stricken Bangkok airport to the southern resort island of Phuket to try to catch flights out of Thailand when it crashed at 3 am Monday.

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.

Bangkok, Dec. 2 : A court in Thailand has dissolved the ruling People Power Party and banned Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat from office for five years.

"As the court decided to dissolve the People Power Party, therefore the leader of the party and party executives must be banned from politics for five years," The Telegraph quoted Chat Chonlaworn, head of the nine-judge court panel, as saying.

"The court had no other option," he added.

Under Thailand’s Constitution, written by a military government last year, any political party in which a single executive member is convicted of election fraud must be entirely dissolved and all party executives banned from politics.

BANGKOK, Dec. 2 - Thailand's anti-government protest turned ugly Tuesday as a protester died in a grenade blast at Bangkok's domestic Don Muang airport, authorities said.

The grenade was fired into the inbound passenger terminal building of the airport, injuring 22 others, Bangkok Nation reported.

The facility, along with the international Suvarnabhumi airport, has been occupied by protesters led by People's Alliance for Democracy group demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat's government, which is seen only as a proxy for former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, ousted in a military coup in 2006.