Thai protesters prepare to leave airport

<img src="http://www.sevenpillers/images1/Thai-protesters-prepare-to-leave-airport.jpg"width="180"border="0"height="124"><p>Anti-government demonstrators officially handed over Thailand's main Suvarnabhumi international airport to authorities on Wednesday after an eight-day siege a protest leader said.</p><p>News of the protester's retreat comes as a top airport authority official announced international flights from Bangkok's main airport are set to resume Thursday following the lifting of the airport blockade.</p><p>"We hope to resume flights on December 4 hopefully. From tomorrow night the first departure flight will be Bangkok-Rome