Malaysian JHR Public Holiday November 1st

Sources: Bernama News Agency (Johor Baru) and Malaysian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The State Secretary of the government of Malaysia's State of Johor, Datuk Ismail Karim, has declared tomorrow, Sunday, November 1st, 2015, as another one-off state public holiday in Malaysia's State of Johor to celebrate the Johor Darul Ta'zim (JDT) becoming the champions of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Cup, earlier today. [full story]

Australia ACT Public Holidays Amendments Legislation

Sources: ACT Government Chief Minister and Treasury Directorate (Canberra) and Australian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Chief Minister of Australia's Capital Territory (ACT), Andrew Barr, has announced that, as promised, his government had introduced amendments to the Holidays Act 1958 that will see Easter Sunday become an official public holiday in the ACT alongside public holidays on Good Friday and Easter Monday, effective for the 2016 annual list of non-working public holidays in Australia's Capital Territory (ACT). [full story]

Guatemala Declares November 2 Public Holiday

Sources: Diario de Centro América (Diario público de Guatemala) and Guatemala bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Government of Guatemala, in an abrupt about-face, released the "Acuerdo Gubernativo 223-2015, del 30 de octubre" which declares Monday, November 2, 2015, as a day in lieu non-working public sector holiday and bank holiday in Guatemala, on account of the upcoming "Día de Todos los Santos" annual public holiday, falling on a Sunday in 2015. [full story]

Dominican Republic 2016 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Ministerio de Trabajo, República Dominicana (Santo Domingo) and Dominican Republic bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Ministry of Labour of the Dominican Republic has announced its annual official finalized listing of non-working public holidays in the Dominican Republic for the upcoming calendar year 2016. [full story]

Spain 2016 Ceuta Public Holidays Gazetted

Sources: Boletín Oficial de la Ciudad de Ceuta (BOCCE) and Spain bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The recently-announced annual list of 2016 non-working public holidays (calendario laboral) in the Ciudad Autónoma de Ceuta, as announced by the legislative assembly of Spain's autonomous region of Ceuta (Ilustre Pleno de !a Asamblea de Ceuta), has been officially gazetted in the BOCCE (Boletín Oficial de la Ciudad de Ceuta). [full story]

Argentina Full 2016 Public Holidays Released

Sources: Ministerio del Interior (República Argentina) and Argentina bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Argentina's Ministry of the Interior has released the full annual official list of non-working public holidays in Argentina, including the previously-released bridge public holidays ("feriados con fines turísticos"), in Argentina for the upcoming calendar year 2016. [full story]

Antigua and Barbuda Mulls New National Heroes Day Public Holiday

Sources: Government of Antigua and Barbuda (St. John's) and Antigua and Barbuda bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Antigua & Barbuda's Culture Minister, Paul Chet Greene, has told local media that the ABLP government is yet to set aside a day for the observance of a new incarnation of the National Heroes Day annual non-working public holiday in Antigua and Barbuda, as "it has serious implications for the other holidays and has to be discussed with the Chamber of Commerce and other stakeholders". [full story]

Guatemalan November 2 Public Holiday Ruled-Out

Sources: Diario de Centro América (Diario público de Guatemala) and Guatemala bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Guatemalan Ministry of Labour has announced that, full story, Monday, November 2, 2015, would not be declared as a day in lieu non-working public holiday in Guatemala on account of the upcoming "Día de Todos los Santos" annual public holiday, falling on a Sunday in 2015. [full story]

Belize 2016 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Belize Ministry of National Security (Belmopan) and Belize bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The press office of the Government of Belize has sent out a press release announcing its official list of annual non-working public holidays in Belize for the upcoming calendar year 2016. [full story]

Panamanian November 2015 Public Holidays Extended

Presidencia de la República de Panamá (Panama City) and Panama public holidays (qppstudio.net). Panama's President, Juan Carlos Varela, has issued 2 decrees ("Decreto Ejecutivo No. 574 de 28 de octubre de 2015" and the "Decreto Ejecutivo No. 575 de 28 de octubre de 2015") which, once again, extend the number of, and observance of, the non-working public holidays in Panama for the month of November 2015. [full story]

Kyrgyzstan Public Holiday November 9

Sources: Кабар - Кыргыз Улуттук Маалымат Агенттиги (Bishkek) and Kyrgyzstan bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Ministry of Labour, Migration and Youth of the Kyrgyz Republic has announced that Monday, November 9, 2015, would be an official non-working public holiday in Kyrgyzstan, on account of the upcoming, November 7, Day of the Great October Socialist Revolution, annual non-working public holiday of the Kyrgyz Republic. [full story]

Macedonian 2016 Public Holidays Announced

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 released its annual list of official non-working public holidays in Macedonia for the calendar year 2016. [full story]

Argentina Moves November 2015 Public Holiday

Sources: Ministerio del Interior (República Argentina) and Argentina bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Argentine President, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, has decided to go ahead as suggested and once again move the upcoming, November 23, Día de la Soberanía Nacional, annual non-working public holiday in Argentina, to avoid the possible, and more than likely, November 22, second round of the upcoming presidential elections, falling in the middle of a 3-day weekend. [full story]

Moldova 2016 Public Holidays Extended

Sources: Agentia Informationala de Stat (Moldpres) and Moldovan bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Moldova has announced an extension to the list of 2016 annual non-working public holidays in Moldova ("cu privire la zilele de odihna în anul 2016"), by adding one one-off 2016 non-working public holiday in Moldova to the annual official list of non-working public holidays in Moldova for the upcoming calendar year 2016. [full story]

Algerian Revolution Day Public Holiday 2015

Sources: الموقع الرسمي للمديرية العامة للوظيفة العمومية (Alger) and Algeria banks holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Algerian Ministry of Labour (Ministère du Travail, de l’Emploi et de la Sécurité Sociale) has announced that Sunday, November 1st, 2015, had been declared a non-working public holiday in Algeria on account of the annual "fête de la Révolution" annual non-working public holiday of Algeria. [full story]

UAE 2015 National Day Public Holidays Announced

Sources: وكالة أنباء الإمارات (WAM) and UAE bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The UAE's Federal Authority for Government Human Resources, has finally announced the dates of the upcoming annual Martyrs’ Day and National Day non-working public holidays in the UAE, for the public sector, as running from Tuesday December 1, until Saturday, December 5, 2015, inclusively. [full story]

Kenya Mulls November 26 Public Holiday

Sources: Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (Nairobi) and Kenya bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Kenyan State House spokesman, Manoah Esipisu, has announced that the government of Kenya was considering declaring Thursday, November 26, 2015, as another one-off non-working public holiday in Kenya on account of the upcoming visit of Pope Francis to Kenya. [full story]

Philippines All Souls Day 2015 Public Holiday Ruled-Out

Sources: Philippine Information Agency (Manila) and Philippines bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Philippines' Presidential Communications Secretary, Herminio Coloma Jr., has sent a communique to the media, once again, ruling-out any chance that Monday, November 2, 2015, would be, declared as an additional non-working public holiday in the Philippines. [full story]

Czech Republic Good Friday Public Holiday Almost There

Sources: Radio Praha (Prague) and Czech Republic bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Czech Lower House has approved a long-standing bill that would ad Good Friday to the official list of annual non-working public holidays in the Czech Republic. [full story]

Turkey Public Holiday October 30

Sources: Hürriyet Daily News (Istanbul) and Turkey bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Turkey's Prime Minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu, has signed a decree declaring an additional non-working public sector holidays in Turkey, on Friday, October 30, 2015, as another "administrative holiday" public sector holiday to link the October 29 Republic Day public holiday with the following weekend and the November 1st elections. [full story]

Guatemala Electoral Public Holiday October 26

Sources: Diario de Centro América (Diario público de Guatemala) and Guatemala bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Guatemalan government has declared Monday, October 26, 2015, as another one-off non-working public sector holiday in Guatemala on account of the upcoming presidential elections. [full story]

Spain 2016 National Public Holidays Gazetted

Sources: Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE) and Spain bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Following the recent gazetting of the 2016 public holidays in the last of Spain's autonomous regions, the national government of Spain has gazetted its annual list of official national non-working public holidays (calendario laboral) in Spain for the upcoming calendar year 2016. [full story]

Thailand December 11 Public Holiday Ruled-Out

Sources: ธนาคารแห่งประเทศไทย (Bangkok) and Thailand bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Thailand's Government has issued a communique via Junta Spokesman, Weerachon Sukondhapatipak, ruling-out the possibility of declaring Friday, December 11, 2015, as another additional public holiday in Thailand. [full story]

Australian Victoria 2017 Public Holidays

Sources: State Government of Victoria (Melbourne) and Australian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The State Government of Australia's State of Victoria has officially announced the list of annual official non-working public holidays in Australia's State of Victoria for the calendar year 2017. [full story]

Jordanian 2016 Bank and Public Holidays Announced

Sources: وكالة الأنباء الأردنية بترا (Amman) and Jordan bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Central Bank of Jordan has announced its annual list of religious and national non-working public holidays and bank holidays in Jordan for the upcoming calendar year 2016. [full story]

Nicaraguan 2015 All Souls Public Holiday

Sources: Ministerio del Trabajo de Nicaragua (MITRAB) and Nicaragua bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Nicaragua's Minister of Labour, Jeannette Chávez Gomez, issued a communique declaring that Friday, November 2nd, 2012, would be a full-day public sector holiday ("el próximo 2 de noviembre será día de asueto para que los trabajadores del Estado"). [full story]

Spain 2016 Valencia Public Holidays Gazetted

Sources: Consell de la Generalitat Valenciana (Valencia) and Spain bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Consell de la Generalitat Valenciana has confirmed and gazetted the previously announced official calendar of 2016 non-working public holidays (calendario laboral) in Spain's autonomous region of Valencia. [full story]

Gambia 2015 Tamharit Public Holiday Announced

Sources: Office of the President of the Gambia (Banjul) and Gambia bank and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The President of the Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, has announced that the upcoming annual non-working public holiday in the Gambia for the Tamharit (aka. Yawmul Ashura) would be Saturday, October 24, 2015, a date which has been declared a non-working public holiday throughout the Gambia. [full story]

Bahrain 2015 Ashura Public Holidays

Sources: مصرف البحرين المركزى (Manama) Bahrain bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Bahrain's Prime Minister, Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, has issued a circular declaring Friday and Saturday, October 23 and 24, 2015, as this year's non-working public holidays in Bahrain to mark the upcoming anniversary of Ashura for the Hijri year 1437. [full story]

Puerto Rico Public Holidays Reduction Law Amended

Sources: Oficina de Recursos Humanos del Estado Libre Asociado (ORHELO) and Puerto Rico bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Senate of Puerto Rico has amended last year's law amending the list of Puerto Rican annual non-working public holidays by lumping 4 of the current annual non-working public sector holidays of Puerto Rico into one. [full story]

Fiji 2016 Public Holidays Gazetted

Sources: Fiji Ministry of Information (Suva) and Fiji bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Fiji Governing Cabinet has officialized by publishing it, an amended version of the previously-announced Gazette Notice No. 68, which lists the dates of the official non-working public holidays in Fiji for the upcoming calendar year 2016. [full story]

Mongolian Chinggis Khaan Public Holiday 2015 Announced

Sources: Үндэсний Мэдээллийн Монцамэ Агентлаг (Ulaanbaatar) and Mongolia bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Mongolian government has announced Thursday, November 12, 2015, as the date for the upcoming 2015 Chinggis Khaan annual non-working public holiday which was added a few years ago to the list of annual non-working public holidays in Mongolia. [full story]

Algerian 2015 Ashura Public Holiday Announced

Sources: الموقع الرسمي للمديرية العامة للوظيفة العمومية (Alger) and Algeria banks holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Algerian Ministry of Labour (Ministère du Travail, de l’Emploi et de la Sécurité Sociale) has announced that Saturday, October 24, 2015, had been declared as the date of the "10 Moharram 1437 de l'Hégire" and a non-working public holiday in Algeria on account of annual Achoura (Ashura) non-working public holiday in Algeria. [full story]

India 2015 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 it had once again amended its previously-released annual list of the days which will be non-working public holidays in India's state of Tamil Nadu for the calendar year 2015, by moving the date of the upcoming Muharram (Ashura) non-working public holiday from Friday, October 23, to Saturday, October 24, 2015. [full story]

Lebanon Ashura Bank Holiday October 24

Sources: جمعيّة مصارف لبنان (Beirut) and Lebanon bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Association of Banks in Lebanon has announced that the upcoming Hegire (Islamic New Year) bank holiday for all banks and financial institutions of Lebanon, including the Beirut Stock Exchange and the Central Bank of Lebanon, had been modified and would now be observed on Saturday, October 24, 2015. [full story]

Zambia To Add New Annual Public Holiday

Sources: Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (Lusaka) and Zambia bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). At yesterday's National Day of Prayer, the President of Zambia, Edgar Lungu, announced that, henceforth, October 18 would be gazetted as an annual non-working public holiday to be observed in Zambia as the National Day of Prayer Zambian public holiday. [full story]

Afghanistan Public Holiday October 23

Sources: آژانس خبرى پژواك (Kabul) and Afghanistan bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Afghanistan has declared Friday, October 23, 2015, as an official non-working public holiday in Afghanistan on the occasion of the annual Afghan public holiday of Ashura. [full story]

Guyana 2015 Deepavali Public Holiday Announced

Sources: Guyana Government Information Agency (GINA) and Guyana bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Guyana's Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan, has announced that the government of Guyana had gazetted Tuesday, November 10, 2015, as the date of the upcoming Deepavali non-working public holiday in Guyana. [full story]

Egyptian Parliamentary Public Holiday October 19

Sources: Egypt State Information Service (Cairo) and Egyptian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Earlier tonight, the Egyptian cabinet reversed itself and decided to give state employees a one-off non-working public holiday on Monday, October 19, 2015, on account of the current Egyptian parliamentary elections, after a request made earlier today by the governor of Upper Egypt’s Qena governorate Abdel Hamid El Haggan. [full story]

Guatemalan October 19 Public Holiday Ruled-Out

Sources: Diario de Centro América (Diario público de Guatemala) and Guatemala bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Guatemalan Ministry of Labour has announced that Monday, October 19, 2015, would this time not be declared as a day in lieu non-working public holiday in Guatemala on account of the upcoming Revolution Day annual public holiday, falling in the middle of the week in 2015. [full story]

Senegal 2015 Ashura Public Holiday

Sources: Site Officiel du Gouvernement du Sénégal (Dakar) and Senegalese bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The National Moon-Sighting Commission of Sénégal ("Commission nationale d’observation du croissant lunaire" - CNOCL) has announced that the upcoming Tamkharit (aka. Ashura, aka. Achoura) annual non-working public holiday in Sénégal would be on Friday, October 23, 2015. [full story]

India Telangana Public Holiday October 20

Sources: Government of Telangana (Hyderabad) and Indian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Government of India's State of Telangana has announced that it had declared Tuesday, October 20, 2015, as a non-working public holiday in India's State of Telangana to mark the upcoming Bathukamma Festival annual non-working public holiday in the Indian State of Telangana. [full story]

Slovakian 2016 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Ministerstvo zahranicných vecí Slovenskej republiky (Bratislava) and Slovakia bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Slovakia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has published its annual official list of non-working public holidays in Slovakia for the upcoming calendar year 2016. [full story]

Nepalese Public Holidays October 20-24

Sources: नेपाली गृह मंत्रालय के मंत्रालय (Kathmandu) and Nepalese bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Nepal has announced that Tuesday, October 20, 2015, had once again been declared a non-working public holiday in Nepal on account of the upcoming Fulpati annual non-working public holiday of Nepal, which usually occurs on the seventh day of the Dashain festival, but this year on the eight day, as the current Hindu Lunar month had a leap day earlier this month. [full story]

Palau UN Public Holiday October 24

Sources: Palau Government (Koror) and Palau bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Palau has announced that Saturday, October 24, 2015, would be the date of the annual non-working public holiday in Palau on account of the upcoming United Nations Day non-working public holiday in Palau. [full story]

Lebanon Ashura Public Holiday October 24

Sources: جمعيّة مصارف لبنان (Beirut) and Lebanon bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Government of Lebanon has announced that it had changed the date of the upcoming annual non-working public holiday in Lebanon for Ashura, which would now be observed on Saturday, October 24, 2015. [full story]

Malta Day In Lieu Public Holidays Stalled Again

Sources: Malta Department of Information (Valetta) and Malta bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Despite its assessment of the economy of Malta as "doing well" the government of Malta has submitted a draft budget for 2016 which still does not reinstate, as promised, the system of day in lieu non-working public holidays in Malta when a Maltese annual public holiday falls on a weekend. [full story]

Vietnam Tet 2016 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Vụ Thông Tin Báo Chí - Bộ Ngoại Giao (Hanoi) and Vietnamese bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs of the government of Vietnam has announced its proposed annual list of the official non-working public holidays in Vietnam for the upcoming Tet (Vietnamese New Year) non-working public holidays for the calendar year 2016. [full story]

Bangladesh 2015 Ashura Public Holiday

Sources: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) and Bangladesh bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Bangladesh's National Moon Sighting Committee has announced that it had sighted the New Moon crescent last night and, therefore, that the upcoming Ashura, and related annual non-working public holiday in Bangladesh, would be observed across the country on Saturday, October 24, 2015, which corresponds to the previously-announced date for Ashura, and related public holiday in Bangladesh. [full story]

Pakistan 2015 Ashura Public Holidays

Sources: Associated Press Of Pakistan (Islamabad) and Pakistan bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Ministry of the Interior of the Federal Government of Pakistan has announced the dates for the upcoming Ashura (Martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hossain ) annual non-working public holidays throughout Pakistan for the calendar year 2015. [full story]