Sources: Government of the Maldives and Maldives public holidays. Earlier today, the President of the Maldives announced that the Eid al-Adha public holidays would be moved a day earlier, to match the similar surprise announcement by Saudi Arabia (see our post of December 11).The general public holiday of Haj Day will therefore take place on Tuesday December 18, followed by the general public holiday of Eid al-Adha on Wednesday December 19. Civil servants will, in addition be off until Sunday, December 23, inclusively, but will have to work on Saturday, January 5, 2008.
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