India Mulls New Public Holiday In Puducherry

Sources: Government of Puducherry (Saram) and Indian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Government of India's state of Puducherry has has constituted a nine-member committee to make recommendations to the Puducherry state government on the advisability of declaring November 1st as a new annual non-working public holiday. [full story]

Germany Mulls New Autumn Regional Public Holiday

Sources: Hannover Zeitung (Hannover) and Germany bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Interior Minister of the German State of Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony), Boris Pistorius, has announced that he was in favor, in principle, of the declaration of an additional annual non-working public holiday (gesetzlicher Feiertage) in the German State of Niedersachsen. [full story]

Portugal 2013 Year-End Public Sector Holidays

Sources: Governo de Portugal (Lisboa) and Portugal bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Government of Portugal has announced the traditional year-end non-working public sector holidays (tolerância de ponto) in Portugal as Friday, December 24, and the afternoon of Friday, December 31. [full story]

Macedonian 2013 Tree-Planting Public Holiday Update

Sources: Министерство за труд и социјална политика (Skopje) and Macedonian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Macedonia's Ministry of Labour and Social Policy has announced that the recently-declared 11th Tree-Planting national non-working public holiday, on Wednesday, November 27, 2013, would be compensated by the declaration of Saturday, November 30, 2013, as a regular working day in Macedonia. [full story]

Malaysian 2014 Public Holidays Amended

Sources: Bernama News Agency (Kuala Lumpur) and Malaysian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Prime Minister's Department of Malaysia's Federal Government has announced that, beginning in 2014, the Federal Territories of Kuala Lumpur, Labuan, and Putrajaya, would observe Nuzul Al-Quran as an annual non-working public holiday. [full story]

UAE November 28 Public Holiday Ruled-Out

Sources: وكالة أنباء الإمارات (WAM) and UAE bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Following the selection of Dubai as the venue for the World Expo 2020, there was wide speculation that Thursday, November 28, 2013, would be declared a non-working public holiday in the UAE, or at least in Dubai, but the UAE Vice-President and Ruler of Dubai ruled-out the declaration of Thursday, November 28, 2013, as a non-working public holiday in the UAE. [full story]

China 2014 Public Holidays Overhaul Update

Sources: 中央政府门户网站国务院办公厅 (Beijing) and China bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). China's General Office of the State Council has followed-up on last month's informal polls, with an official poll on seven major news websites, asking the Chinese public to choose between 3 different schemes of annual public holidays, each representing a substantial change as compared to China's last overhaul of its non-working public holidays calendar in 2007. [full story]

Turks and Caicos 2014 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: The TCI Journal (Grand Turk) and Turks and Caicos bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Office Of Public Service Management of the Turks and Caicos Islands has released the annual list of official non-working public holidays in the Turks and Caicos Islands, for the calendar year 2014. [full story]

San Marino 2014 Public Holidays Released

Sources: Banca Centrale della Repubblica di San Marino (San Marino) and San Marino bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). San Marino's Central Bank has published the San Marino Government's annual official list of non-working public holidays in San Marino for the calendar year 2014. [full story]

Senegal Magal Public Holiday Bill Approved

Sources: Site Officiel du Gouvernement du Sénégal (Dakar) and Senegalese bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Senegalese Parliament has approved the recent bill which will finally declare the Magal de Touba as an annual non-working public holiday in Senegal ("jour férié, chômé et payé"). [full story]

India 2014 Tamil Nadu Public Holidays Released

Sources: Government of Tamil Nadu (Chennai) and Indian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Government of India's state of Tamil Nadu has announced its annual list of the days which will be non-working public holidays in India's state of Tamil Nadu for the upcoming calendar year 2014. [full story]

Kenyan December 11-13 Public Holidays Ruled-Out

Sources: Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (Nairobi) and Kenya bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Kenyan Government's Cabinet Secretary for Sports Art and Culture, Arero Wario, has issued a communiqué clarifying that the only upcoming non-working public holiday in kenya is the December 12, annual Jamhuri Day public holiday, and that December 11 and/or December 13, 2013, will not be official non-working public holidays in Kenya. [full story]

Tongan Public Holiday December 2

Sources: Tonga Ministry of Information and Communications (Nuku'alofa) and Tonga bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Tonga's Ministry of Information and Communications has issued a communiqué, "in view of the number of enquiries received from the public", clarifying that the date of the upcoming annual non-working public holiday in Tonga to mark King Tupou I Day, is Monday, December 2, 2013. [full story]

UAE 2013 National Day Public Holidays

Sources: وكالة أنباء الإمارات (WAM) and UAE bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The UAE Cabinet has announced revised dates for the upcoming 2-day annual National Day non-working public sector holiday in the UAE. [full story]

Timor Leste Public Holiday November 29

Sources: Komunikadu Imprensa Sekretaria Estadu Konsellu Ministru Timor-Leste (Dili) and Timor Leste bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Timor Leste has announced that it had once again decided to declare an additional day-off public sector holiday on the day after the annual non-working Timor Leste Independence Day public holiday of November 28. [full story]

UK Mulls NI Peace Public Holiday

Sources: The Irish Examiner (Cork) and UK bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The British Labour Party has proposed that a new non-working public holiday (aka. bank holiday, in the UK) should be created in Northern Ireland to celebrate the achievements of the peace process since the Good Friday agreement of the late nineties. [full story]

Macedonian Tree-Planting Public Holiday November 27

Sources: Министерство за труд и социјална политика (Skopje) and Macedonian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Macedonia's Ministry of Labour and Social Policy has announced the declaration of Wednesday, November 27, 2013, as the 11th Tree-Planting national non-working public holiday for the citizens of the Republic of Macedonia. [full story]

Malaysia Changes State Weekends

Sources: Bernama News Agency (Kota Baharu) and Malaysian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Sultan of Malaysia's State of Johor, Ibrahim Ibni Almarhum Sultan Iskandar, has announced that, beginning on January 1st, 2014, the Malaysian Sate of Johor would revert to a Friday/Saturday weekend. [full story]

Aruba 2014 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Office of the Governor of Aruba (Oranjestad) and Aruba bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Aruba has released its annual official list of non-working public holidays in Aruba for the upcoming calendar year 2014. [full story]

Armenian 2013-2014 Public Holidays Amended

Sources: Հայերեն լրատվական գործակալությանը (ARMENPRESS) and Armenian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Government of Armenia has announced amendments to the recently-released annual list of official non-working public holidays in Armenia for the upcoming calendar year 2014, as well as the list of official non-working public holidays in Armenia for the calendar year 2013, announced earlier this year. [full story]

Tonga Adds 2013 Year-End Public Holidays

Sources: Tonga Ministry of Information and Communications (Nuku'alofa) and Tonga bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Tonga's Prime Minister's Office has issued a communiqué announcing that the Cabinet of the Government of Tonga had declared a 2-week period of additional public sector holidays in Tonga, from Monday, December 23, 2013, until Friday, January 3, 2014, inclusively. [full story]

Spain 2014 National Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE) and Spain bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Following the recent gazetting of the 2014 public holidays in the last of Spain's autonomous regions, the national government of Spain has finally gazetted the list of official national non-working public holidays (calendario laboral) in Spain for the upcoming calendar year 2014. [full story]

Ukraine January 2014 Public Holidays Extended

Sources: Кабінет Міністрів України (Kiev) and Ukraine bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The deputy social policy minister of the Ukraine, Lidiya Drozdova, has announced a resolution, passed by the Cabinet of Ministers of the Ukraine, which extends the January 2014 annual non-working public holidays to 7 consecutive days off. [full story]

Kazakhstan December 2013 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Қазақстан Республикасының Электрондық үкіметі (Astana) and Kazakhstan bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Kazakhstan's government has announced the dates of the upcoming annual non-working public holidays that will be observed in Kazakhstan during the upcoming month of December 2013. [full story]

Mongolian Lunar New Year Public Holidays Bill Progresses

Sources: Үндэсний Мэдээллийн Монцамэ Агентлаг (Ulaanbaatar) and Mongolia bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The recently-submitted bill to extend the annual Lunar New Year public holidays (Tsagaan Sar) in Mongolia to the third day of the Lunar New Year, has been considered and approved by the Standing Committee on State Structure. [full story]

Australian 2016 Queensland Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Department of Justice and Attorney-General (State of Queensland) and Australian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Department of Justice and Attorney-General of Australia's State of Queensland has announced the dates of the annual non-working public holidays for 2016 in Australia's State of Queensland. [full story]

Liechtenstein 2014 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Liechtensteinischer Bankenverband (Bankenplatz Liechtenstein) and Liechtenstein bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Liechtenstein has announced its annual official list of Liechtenstein bank holidays and public holidays for the calendar year 2014. [full story]

Canada Rules-Out Grey Cup Public Holiday

Sources: Government of Saskatchewan (Regina) and Canada bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Premier of Canada's Province of Saskatchewan, Brad Wall, has announced that he was not "vested with the authority" to declare a one-off provincial non-working public holiday to commemorate the Roughriders winning the western final of the upcoming Grey Cup in Calgary. [full story]

Armenian 2014 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Հայերեն լրատվական գործակալությանը (ARMENPRESS) and Armenian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Government of Armenia has announced the annual list of official public holidays in Armenia for the upcoming calendar year 2014. [full story]

Macedonian Public Holiday November 22

Sources: Министерство за труд и социјална политика (Skopje) and Macedonian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Macedonia's Ministry of Labour and Social Policy has announced that Friday, November 22, 2012, would be a non-working public holiday throughout Macedonia "the citizens of the Albanian community in Macedonia". [full story]

Honduras Public Holiday November 25

Sources: La Prensa (Tegucigalpa) and Honduras bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Honduras has announced that the Council of Ministers had approved another one-off non-working public sector holiday on Monday, November 25, 2013, on the day following the upcoming elecctions. [full story]

Spain 2014 National Public Holidays Uncertain

Sources: Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE) and Spain bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Spain's Ministry of Labour has announced that final decisions concerning mid-week public holidays in the list of 2014 national non-working public holidays (calendario laboral) had not yet been made and that the annual list of national non-working public holidays in Spain for 2014 was expected at the end of November or beginning of December. [full story]

Afghanistan Public Holidays November 19-24

Sources: آژانس خبرى پژواك (Kabul) and Afghanistan bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Afghanistan has declared a six day period of public holidays from Tuesday to Sunday, November 19-24, 2013, on account of another upcoming Loya Jirga tribal conference. [full story]

Cyprus Public Holiday November 19

Sources: Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία Υπουργείο Εξωτερικών (Nicosia) and Cyprus bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Following an extraordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers under the Acting President of the Republic, House President Yiannakis Omirou, the government of Cyprus has declared Tuesday, November 19, 2013, as a one-off non-working public holiday in Cyprus. [full story]

Maldives Public Holiday November 17

Sources: ރައީސުލްޖުމްހޫރިއްޔާގެ އޮފީސް (Male) and Maldives bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Office of the President of the Maldives, Mohamed Waheed Hassan Manik, has issued press communique 2013-512 indicating that Sunday, November 17, 2013, had been declared as another one-off non-working public holiday in the Maldives, on account of the second round of this year's presidential election. [full story]

Kuwaiti Public Holiday November 19

Sources: الكويت جنة الخدمة المدنية (Kuwait City) and Kuwaiti bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Kuwaiti Cabinet has declared Tuesday, November 19, 2013, as a one-off non-working public sector holiday for Kuwaiti government employees. [full story]

Spain Basque National Public Holiday Canceled

Sources: Boletín Oficial del País Vasco (BOPV) and Spain bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Spain's Basque Parliament has approved the recent bill aiming to cancel, as soon as 2014, the October 25 annual non-working public holiday, added to the list of Spain's Basque public holidays a few years ago. [full story]

Bulgarian 2014 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Република България Министерски Съвет (Sofia) and Bulgarian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Bulgarian Council of Ministers has released the full list of regular non-working public holidays and annual one-off bridge public holidays for the calendar year 2014 in Bulgaria. [full story]

Omani 2013 National Day Public Holidays Announced

Sources: وكالة الأنباء العمانية (Muscat) and Omani bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Oman's minister of the Diwan of Royal Court, and Oman's Minister of Manpower, have announced the dates of the upcoming National Day annual non-working public holidays for the public sector and the private sector, repectively. [full story]

Indian 2013 HP Public Holidays Further Amended

Sources: Himachal Pradesh Public Service Commission (Shimla) and Indian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh has announced that it has once again amended its previously-released list of official non-working public holidays for the upcoming year 2013 in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. [full story]

Spain 2014 Melilla Public Holidays Amended

Sources: Consejo de Gobierno de la Ciudad Autónoma de Melilla (BOME) and Spain bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Consejo de Gobierno de la Ciudad Autónoma de Melilla has in turn aproved an amendment to the recently-released oficial list of 2014 non-working public holidays (calendario laboral) in the Ciudad Autónoma de Melilla, by moving the previously-announced date for the 2014 Feast of Sacrifice (Pascua del Sacrificio) Muslim public holiday. [full story]

Argentina 2014-2015-2016 One-Off Public Holidays

Sources: Ministerio del Interior (República Argentina) and Argentina bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Argentina has gazetted the list of one-off non-working bridge public holidays ("feriados con fines turísticos") for the calendar years 2014, 2015 and 2016. [full story]

India 2013 Tamil Nadu Public Holidays Amended

Sources: Government of Tamil Nadu (Chennai) and Indian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Government of India's state of Tamil Nadu has announced that the date of the non-working public holiday for the upcoming Muharram annual public holiday would also be changed to Friday, November 15, 2013, instead of Thursday, November, 14, 2013, as previously-announced. [full story]

Bahrain 2013 Ashoora Bank Holidays

Sources: مصرف البحرين المركزى (Manama) Bahrain bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Central Bank of Bahrain has announced that it would declare bank holidays on Wednesday and Thursday, November 13 and 14, 2013, in line with the recently-announced non-working public holidays in Bahrain to mark the upcoming anniversary of Ashoora. [full story]

Indian 2013 Delhi Public Holidays Amended

Sources: कार्मिक, लोक शिकायत तथा पेंशन मंत्रालय कार्मिक मामलों (New Delhi) and Indian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Government of India for the Capital Territory of New Delhi, has announced that the date of the non-working public holiday for the upcoming Muharram annual public holiday would be Friday, November 15, 2013, instead of Thursday, November, 14, 2013, as previously-announced. [full story]

Sri Lanka CHOGM Public Holiday Clarified

Sources: அரசாங்க சேவை ஆணைக்குழு இலங்கை (Colombo) and Sri Lanka bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Sri Lanka has finally announced its public holidays plans in relation to the upcoming CHOGM (Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting). [full story]

Nepal Extends CA Public Holidays

Sources: नेपाली गृह मंत्रालय के मंत्रालय (Kathmandu) and Nepalese bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Nepal has announced that the one-off non-working public holidays on account of the upcoming Constituent Assembly (CA) elections had been extended to 4 days, from November 17 to 20, 2013. [full story]

Bahrain 2013 Ashoora Public Holidays

Sources: وكالة أنباء البحرين (BNA) Bahrain bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Bahrain's Deputy Prime Minister, Shaikh Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Khalifa, has issued a circular declaring Wednesday and Thursday, November 13 and 14, 2013, as a non-working public holidays in Bahrain to mark the upcoming anniversary of Ashoora. [full story]

Australian NT 2015 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Office of the Commissioner for Public Employment of the Northern Territory Government (Darwin) and Australian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Government of Australia's Northern Territory has published the expanded list of non-working public holidays in Australia's Northern Territory for the calendar year 2015. [full story]

Nepalese Public Holiday November 8

Sources: नेपाली गृह मंत्रालय के मंत्रालय (Kathmandu) and Nepalese bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Nepal has announced that tomorrow, Friday, November 8, 2013, had been declared a nationwide non-working public holiday on account of the upcoming Chhath annual non-working public holiday of Nepal. [full story]