Philippines Public Holiday December 24

Sources: Philippine Information Agency (Manila) and Philippines bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Yesterday, the Philippines' Presidential Palace, Malacañang, issued a communique confirming the declaration of Monday, December 24, 2012, as a special, one-off, non-working public holiday "since it falls between Dec. 23 (Sunday) and Dec. 25 (Christmas Day), which is a regular holiday". [full story]