Indonesian 2017 Public Holidays Amended

Sources: Situs Resmi Kementerian Koordinator Bidang Kesejahteraan Rakyat (ANTARA) and Indonesian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Indonesia has amended its previously-released annual decree ("Surat Keputusan Bersama (SKB) Hari Libur Nasional dan Cuti Bersama Tahun 2017") designating the list of Indonesian public holidays and collective leave days ("cuti bersama") for the calendar year 2017, for both the private and public sectors, by adding the long-expected Pancasila Day annual public holiday of Indonesia and shuffling around the list of collective leave days public holidays in Indonesia in 2017. [full story]

Kuwait Prophet's Birthday Public Holiday December 8

Sources: الكويت جنة الخدمة المدنية (Kuwait City) and Kuwaiti bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Kuwaiti Civil Service Commission has confirmed that it would once again move the date of the upcoming annual non-working public holiday in Kuwait for the Prophet's Birthday, From Sunday, December 11, to Thursday, December 8, 2016, to adjoin a nearby weekend. [full story]

Paraguay 2017 Public Holidays Amended

Sources: Presidencia de la República del Paraguay (Asunción) and Paraguay bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Legal Department of the Presidency of the Republic of Paraguay has announced that, at the request of the Church, the President of Paraguay, Horacio Cartes, has issued Decree No. 6382, amending Article 1 of the earlier Decree No. 6292 of November 17, 2016, ("por el que se modifica el artículo 1° del Decreto N° 6292 del 17 de noviembre de 2016") so that August 15, 2017, would be a non-working public holiday in Paraguay in 2017, after all. [full story]

Macedonian Tree-Planting Public Holiday November 30

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 30, 2016, as another Tree-Planting national non-working public holiday for the citizens of the Republic of Macedonia. [full story]

Saint Lucia 2017 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Office of the Prime Minister (Castries) and Saint Lucia bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Saint Lucia has released its annual official list of Saint Lucia bank holidays and non-working public holidays in Saint Lucia for the upcoming calendar year 2017. [full story]

Ghana December 7 Public Holiday Ruled-Out

Sources: Ghana News Agency (Accra) and Ghana bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Ghana's Minister of the Interior, Prosper Bani, has issued another statement indicating that Wednesday, December 7, 2016, had not been, and most likely would not be, declared a non-working public holiday in Ghana on account of that date's General Elections. [full story]

Kyrgyzstan January 2017 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Кабар - Кыргыз Улуттук Маалымат Агенттиги (Bishkek) and Kyrgyzstan bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Ministry of Labor, Employment and Migration of the Kyrgyz Republic has announced the calendar of January 2017 non-working public holidays in Kyrgyzstan in January 2017, all the while ruling-out the declaration of a longer period of non-working public holidays in Kyrgyzstan to run from January 1 until January 8, 2017. [full story]

Australian Victoria 2016 Public Holidays Amended

Sources: State Government of Victoria (Melbourne) and Australian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Small Business Minister of the State Government of Australia's State of Victoria, Philip Dalidakis, has officially announced a revision to the list of official non-working public holidays in Australia's State of Victoria for the calendar year 2016, with the re-inclusion of Christmas Day as a non-working public holiday in Australia's State of Victoria for the calendar year 2016. [full story]

Bangladesh 2017 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) and Bangladesh bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Bangladesh's Cabinet Secretary, Mohammad Shafiul Alam, has announced that, at Monday's Cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, after consulting the Bangla Academy, the Religious Affairs Ministry and the Weather Department, the annual list of official non-working public holidays in Bangladesh for the upcoming calendar year 2017, was approved. [full story]

Madagascar Cancels November 25 Public Holiday

Sources: Filankevitry ny Governemanta (Mahazoarivo) and Madagascar bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Madagascar's "Service conseils de la Primature", has issued a terse communiqué indicating that, contrary to what had been announced last week, Friday, November 25, 2016, would not be declared as a one-off non-working public holiday in Madagascar on account of the upcoming "Sommet de la Francophonie" ("La journée du 25 novembre n’a pas été décrétée fériée par le gouvernement"). [full story]

Montenegro 2017 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: The Ministry of Health, Labour and Social Welfare of Montenegro (Podgorica) and Montenegro bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Montenegro's Ministry of Labor has its annual list of official Montenegro bank holidays and non-working public holidays in Montenegro for the upcoming calendar year 2017. [full story]

Ghana Public Holiday December 2

Sources: Ghana News Agency (Accra) and Ghana bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Ghana's Minister of the Interior, Prosper Bani, has issued a statement indicating that Friday, December 2, 2016, had been declared a non-working public holiday in Ghana on account of Farmers’ Day, and that that day was a statutory holiday in Ghana to be observed as such. [full story]

Romanian Public Holiday December 2

Sources: Senatului României (Bucureşti) and Romanian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Romanian Government has published the "Government Decision no. 871/2016 on the establishment day of December 2, 2016 as a day off" (Official Gazette, Part I, no. 950) which declares Friday, December 2, 2016, as a one-off bridge public holiday in Romania, to link the annual Romanian public holidays of Saint Andrew's on November 30 and the National Day on December 1st, with the subsequent weekend. [full story]

Costa Rican Otto Public Holidays November 24-25

Sources: Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social de Costa Rica (San José) and Costa Rican bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Costa Rica's President, Luis Guillermo Solís, has issued a decree declaring Thursday and Friday, November 24 and 25, 2016, as one-off non-working public holidays in Costa Rica, on account of the impending arrival of tropical storm Otto. [full story]

Bolivian 2016-2017 Year-End Public Holidays

Sources: Ministerio de Trabajo, Empleo y Previsión Social (La Paz) and Bolivian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The head of Bolivia's Ministerio de Trabajo, Empleo y Previsión Social, Elizabeth Molina, has announced the declaration of 2015-2016 year-end non-working public holidays in Bolivia, taking into account the fact that both December 25 and January 1, fall on a Sunday. [full story]

India Telangana 2017 Public Holidays Released

Sources: Government of Telangana (Hyderabad) and Indian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Government of India's State of Telangana has released the "Telangana GO List of General Holidays, Optional Holidays for the year 2017" which officially lists the annual non-working public holidays to be observed in the Indian State of Telangana for the upcoming calendar year 2017. [full story]

Paraguay 2017 Public Holidays Released

Sources: Presidencia de la República del Paraguay (Asunción) and Paraguay bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The President of Paraguay, Horacio Cartes, has signed the "Decreto número 6292" which lists the annual official non-working public holidays in Paraguay for the upcoming calendar year 2017, including which of the annual non-working public holidays of Paraguay will be moved to adjoin a nearby weekend during the calendar year 2017. [full story]

Guam November 25 Public Holiday Ruled-Out

Sources: The Government of Guam (Chamorro) and Guam bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The spokeswoman for the Governor of Guam, Oyaol Nigirairikl, has announced that Guam Governor, Eddie Calvo, would not be declaring Friday, November 25, 2016, the day after the upcoming Thanksgiving non-working public holiday of Guam, as another one-off GovGuam public sector holiday in Guam. [full story]

Cuban 2016 Public Holidays Amended

Sources: Órgano Oficial del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba (Granma) and Cuban bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Cuban government has issued the "Resolución No 23/2016 del Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social" which declares Friday, December 2, 2016, as a one-off non-working public holiday in Cuba, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Granma. [full story]

Thailand 2017 Public Holidays Amended

Sources: ธนาคารแห่งประเทศไทย (Bangkok) and Thailand bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Thailand's Government Cabinet, through government spokesperson, Thaksada Sangkhachan, has declared Tuesday, January 3, 2017, as an additional, one-off non-working public holiday in Thailand, to create a five-day period of public holidays in Thailand from December 31, 2016, until January 3, 2017, inclusively. [full story]

Vietnam 2017 Public Holidays Approved

Sources: Vụ Thông Tin Báo Chí - Bộ Ngoại Giao (Hanoi) and Vietnamese bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Vietnamese Prime Minister, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, has accepted the recommendations of the Ministry of Interior for the calendar of official public holidays in Vietnam in 2017, as set-out in the "Official Letter 5039 / BNV-TCCB 4002", in response to the earlier proposal by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs of the government of Vietnam of 2 proposed options for the annual list of the official non-working public holidays in Vietnam for the upcoming calendar year 2017. [full story]

Myanmar 2017 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Republic of the Union of Myanmar (Yangoon) and Myanmar bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the government of Myanmar has announced its annual list of the dates of the official Myanmar bank holidays and non-working public holidays in Myanmar for the upcoming calendar year 2017. [full story]

Trinidad and Tobago Year-End 2016-2017 Public Holidays Confirmed

Sources: Trinidad and Tobago Government Portal (Port of Spain) and Trinidad and Tobago bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Government of Trinidad and Tobago has confirmed the dates of the upcoming year-end 2016-2017 non-working public holidays in Trinidad and Tobago in line with its previously-released official list of Trinidad and Tobago bank holidays and of non-working public holidays in Trinidad and Tobago for the calendar year 2016. [full story]

Hungary Good Friday Public Holiday Legislation

Sources: Kormányzat Nemzetgazdasági Minisztérium (Budapest) and Hungary bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Hungarian Deputy Prime Minister, Zsolt Semjén, jointly with Hungary's Human Resources Minister, Zoltán Balog, and the Hungarian Economy Minister, Mihály Varga, have entered legislation to amend the current annual non-working public holidays in Hungary legislation, and also add Good Friday to the list of annual non-working public holidays in Hungary. [full story]

Czech Republic 2017 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Czech News Agency (ČTK Praha) and Czech Republic bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The central bank of the Czech Republic, the Czech National Bank, has announced its annual list of the annual Czech bank holidays and Czech public holidays for calendar year 2017 in the Czech Republic, based on the recently-amended legislation regulating non-working public holidays in the Czech Republic. [full story]

Dominica 2017 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: The Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica (Office of the Prime Minister) and Dominica bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica has released its annual official list of the Dominica bank holidays and non-working public holidays in Dominica, for the upcoming calendar year 2017. [full story]

US Virgin Islands 2016 Public Holidays Amended

Sources: The Governor's Office (St. Croix) and British Virgin Islands bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Governor of the US Virgin Islands, Kenneth Mapp, has once again declared a one-off additional public holiday in the US Virgin Islands to be observed as a public sector holiday in the US Virgin Islands on the day after Thanksgiving 2016, namely Friday, November 25, 2016. [full story]

Peru Mulls October 31 Public Holiday

Sources: Ministerio del Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo del Perú (MTPE) and Peru bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Another bill has been introduced in Peru's Parliament, by Congresista Karina Beteta, which would make October 31, Reformation Day, a new paid annual non-working public holiday in Peru (con carácter de feriado no laborable). [full story]

UAE 2016 National Day Public Holidays Announced

Sources: وكالة أنباء الإمارات (WAM) and UAE bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The UAE's Minister of Labour, and the UAE's Federal Authority for Government Human Resources, have each in turn, announced the dates of the upcoming annual Martyrs' Day and National Day non-working public holidays in the UAE, for the private sector and the public sector, as running from Thursday, December 1, until Saturday, December 3, 2016, inclusively. [full story]

Madagascar Public Holiday November 25

Sources: Filankevitry ny Governemanta (Mahazoarivo) and Madagascar bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Madagascar's "ministère de la Fonction publique et de la réforme administrative, du travail et des lois sociales", has announced that it is drafting a decree, expected next Tuesday, to declare Friday, November 25, 2016, as a one-off non-working public holiday in Madagascar on account of the upcoming "Sommet de la Francophonie". [full story]

India 2017 Kerala Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Government of Kerala (Thiruvananthapuram) and Indian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Government of India's state of Kerala has announced its annual list of the days which will be non-working public holidays in India's state of Kerala for the upcoming calendar year 2017. [full story]

Romanian June 1 Public Holiday Promulgated

Sources: Senatului României (Bucureşti) and Romanian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Romanian President, Klaus Johannis, has signed into law, the law declaring June 1st, Children's Day, as another new annual non-working public holiday in Romania for both the private and public sectors, which had earlier been approved by the Romanian Senate and the Romanian Chamber of Deputies. [full story]

Omani 2016 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 annual National Day annual non-working Omani public holidays for the public sector and the private sector, respectively, in Oman, for the calendar year 2016. [full story]

Indian 2017 Himachal Pradesh Public Holidays Announced

Sources: The official webportal of the Himachal Pradesh Government (Shimla) and Indian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of the Indian State of Himachal Pradesh has issued a notification of public holidays and restricted holidays to be observed in the State of Himachal Pradesh as gazetted holidays during the upcoming calendar year 2017. [full story]

Gibraltar 2017 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Government of Gibraltar Press Office (Gibraltar) and Gibraltar bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Government of Gibraltar has issued the "BANK AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS ORDER 2016" (LN. 2016/217) which specifies the official list of annual Gibraltar bank holidays and non-working public holidays in Gibraltar for the upcoming calendar year 2017. [full story]

Ukraine 2017 Public Holidays Approved

Sources: Кабінет Міністрів України (Kiev) and Ukraine bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). At today's meeting, Ukraine's Cabinet issued a still unnumbered disposition which approves the previously-released draft resolution by the Ukraine's Ministry of Social Policy, specifying the annual official list of 2017 non-working public holidays in the Ukraine, as well as the postponement of some working days in 2017, "in order to create favorable conditions for the rational use of working time". [full story]

India 2017 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 2017. [full story]

Cambodia 2017 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Cabinet of Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia (Phnom Penh) and Cambodia bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Cambodia's Prime Minister has signed a Cambodian Royal Government's sub-decree 223 Kor.Bor/Bror.Kor establishing Cambodia's annual list of official non-working public holidays in Cambodia for the upcoming calendar year 2017. [full story]

India 2017 Puducherry Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Government of Puducherry (Saram) and Indian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of India's State of Puducherry has announced the list of official state non-working public holidays in India's State of Puducherry for the upcoming calendar year 2017. [full story]

New Caledonia 2017 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Medef Nouvelle-Calédonie (Nouméa) and New Caledonia bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of New Caledonia has released its annual official list of non-working public holidays in New Caledonia (jours fériés chômés) for the upcoming calendar year 2017. [full story]

Guyana 2017 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Guyana Government Information Agency (GINA) and Guyana bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Guyana has announced its annual list of Guyanese bank holidays and non-working public holidays in Guyana for the upcoming calendar year 2017. [full story]

Belarus 2017 Public Holidays Released

Sources: Постановления Совета Министров (Minsk) and Belarus bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Council of Ministers of Belarus has approved the annual list of official non-working public holidays in Belarus in the calendar year 2017, and released the details thereof in the "Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus No. 912". [full story]

Nepalese Public Holiday November 10

Sources: नेपाली गृह मंत्रालय के मंत्रालय (Kathmandu) and Nepalese bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The spokesperson of Nepal's Home Ministry, Balkrishna Panthi, has announced that the government of Nepal had decided to declare Thursday, November 10, 2016, as a one-off non-working public holiday in Nepal on account of the annual Nepalese holiday of Phalgunanda Jayanti. [full story]

Pakistan Iqbal Day Public Holiday Restoration Ruled-Out

Sources: Associated Press Of Pakistan (Islamabad) and Pakistan bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Pakistan's Ministry of Interior has ruled-out the rumoured declaration of November 9 as a non-working public holiday in Pakistan on account of Iqbal Day. [full story]

North Korean 2017 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: 조선중앙통신 (Pyongyang) and North Korea bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The North Korean government has released its annual list of official non-working public holidays in North Korea for the upcoming calendar year 2017. [full story]

Dominican Republic 2017 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 2017. [full story]

Ukraine January 2017 Public Holidays

Sources: Кабінет Міністрів України (Kiev) and Ukraine bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Ministry of Social Policy of the Ukraine has issued a communiqué confirming that Cabinet of the Ukraine had decreed the list of January 2017 non-working public holidays in the Ukraine. [full story]

Venezuelan Bank Holiday November 7

Sources: Superintendencia de Instituciones del Sector Bancario (Sudeban) and Venezuela bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Venezuelan regulatory body for the banking sector, Sudeban (Superintendencia de Instituciones del Sector Bancario) has announced that Monday, November 7, 2016, would be another bank holiday in Venezuela, on account of the annual "Día de Todos Los Santos") annual bank holiday of Venezuela. [full story]

Ghana Public Holiday November 4

Sources: Ghana News Agency (Accra) and Ghana bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). After 2 months of announcements by various Ministers of Ghana (Ghana's Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Netson Akatey, in September, and the Interior Minister, Prosper Bani, late last month) that Friday, November 4, 2016, the date of this year's moved Farmers' Day, would not be a non-working public holiday in Ghana, earlier today, Ghana's Deputy Interior Minister, James Agalga, announced that Friday, November 4, 2016, would in fact be a statutory public holiday in Ghana "and must be observed as such". [full story]

Vietnam 2017 Public Holidays Submitted

Sources: Vụ Thông Tin Báo Chí - Bộ Ngoại Giao (Hanoi) and Vietnamese bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Vietnamese Ministry of Interior has issued the "Official Letter 5039 / BNV-TCCB 4002", in response to the earlier proposal by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs of the government of Vietnam of a draft containing 2 proposed options for the annual list of the official non-working public holidays in Vietnam for the upcoming calendar year 2017. [full story]