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]

Morocco 2015 Islamic New Year Public Holiday

Sources: وزارة الأوقاف والشؤون الإسلامية (Casablanca) and Morocco public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Government of Morocco, through its "ministère de la fonction publique et de la modernisation de l'administration", has modified its previously-announced date for the upcoming 2015 Fatih Moharam 1437 (Hijri New Year 1437) non-working public holiday in Morocco, following an announcement by the "ministère des Habous et des affaires islamiques". [full story]

Australian Queensland Public Holidays Amendment Gazetted

Sources: Department of Justice and Attorney-General (State of Queensland) and Australian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Queensland Parliament has passed into law the "Holidays and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2015" which switches the dates of the Birthday of the Sovereign and of the Labour Day annual non-working public holidays in the Australian state of Queensland. [full story]

Vanuatu Public Holiday October 15

Sources: Government of Vanuatu (Port Vila) and Vanuatu bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Vanuatu's president, Baldwin Lonsdale, has declared tomorrow, Thursday, October 15, 2015, as another one-off regional non-working public holiday in Vanuatu's capital, Port Vila, on account of the by-election being held on that date to fill the seat left vacant by the death of former prime minister Edward Natapei. []

Egyptian Hijri 1437 Public Holiday Announced

Sources: Egypt State Information Service (Cairo) and Egyptian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). A cabinet spokesman for the Ministry of Manpower and Immigration has announced that tomorrow, Wednesday, October 14, 2015, would be a non-working official public holiday for both the public sector and the private sector on account of the upcoming Hijri 1437 Islamic New Year. [full story]

Omani Hijri 1437 Public Holiday 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 Chairman of the Civil Service Council, Sayyid Khalid bin Hilal bin Saud Al Busaidi, has announced tomorrow as the date of the non-working public holiday for the employees of the ministries, public authorities and other departments of the State’s administrative apparatus, on the occasion of the upcoming annual Hijri New Year 1437 non-working public holiday in Oman. [full story]

Indian 2016 Public Holidays Amended

Sources: कार्मिक, लोक शिकायत तथा पेंशन मंत्रालय कार्मिक मामलों (New Delhi) and Indian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). India's Central Government's Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, has amended its previously-released annual list of public holidays and restricted holidays to be observed in all the Administrative Offices of the Central Government of India, for the upcoming calendar year 2016. [full story]

Portugal December 1 Public Holiday Petition

Sources: Governo de Portugal (Lisboa) and Portugal bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). A former leader of Portugal's People's Party, José Ribeiro e Castro, has delivered a petition to Portugal's Parliament which once again requests the reversal of the 2012 law which abrogated 4 of Portugal's annual non-working public holidays. [full story]

Algerian Hijri 1437 Public Holiday

Sources: الموقع الرسمي للمديرية العامة للوظيفة العمومية (Alger) and Algeria banks holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Algerian public sector ministry (Direction Générale de la Fonction Publique) has announced that Thursday, October 15, 2015, had been declared as a non-working public holiday in Algeria on account of the upcoming Hijri 1437 Islamic New Year annual non-working public holiday of Algeria. [full story]

Argentina Mulls November Public Holiday Change

Sources: Ministerio del Interior (República Argentina) and Argentina bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). A bill has been introduced into Argentina's Lower House (Cámara de Diputados), by MP Patricia Bullrich, which would move the upcoming, November 23, Día de la Soberanía Nacional, annual non-working public holiday in Argentina, to the previous Monday, November 16, 2015, to avoid the possible, and more than likely, second round of the upcoming presidential elections, falling in the middle of a 3-day weekend. [full story]

Lebanon Hijri 1437 Public Holiday Wednesday

Sources: جمعيّة مصارف لبنان (Beirut) and Lebanon bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Government of Lebanon has announced that upcoming annual non-working public holiday in Lebanon for the Hijri 1437 (Islamic New Year), would be observed on Wednesday, October 14, 2015, as had been previously announced, late last year. [full story]

Bahrain Hijri 1437 Public Holiday

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 Thursday, October 15, 2015, as a non-working public holiday in Bahrain to mark the upcoming annual Islamic New Year 1437 public holiday. [full story]

UAE Hijri New Year 1437 Public Holiday

Sources: وكالة أنباء الإمارات (WAM) and UAE bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Chairman of the UAE's Federal Authority for Government Human Resources (FAGHR), Hussain bin Ibrahim Al Hammadi, has announced that the upcoming Hijri New Year 1437 would be on Wednesday, October 14, 2015, and that, as per current legislation, the upcoming annual Al Hijri New Year non-working public holiday for the public sector of the UAE would be moved to adjoin the following weekend. [11-Oct-2015]

Nepal Public Holidays October 12-13

Sources: नेपाली गृह मंत्रालय के मंत्रालय (Kathmandu) and Nepalese bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Home Ministry of the Government of Nepal, has announced that the chariot procession of Rato Machindranath Raath Jatra, halted by the April 25 earthquake, and resumed on September 21, had reached Jawalakhel and thus the Home Ministry of the Government of Nepal had decided to declare Monday, October 12, 2015, as the belated date of this year's Bhoto Jatra non-working public holiday in Nepal's Kathmandu Valley. [full story]

Tunisia Mulls Nobel Win Public Holiday

Sources: وكالة تونس افريقيا للانباء (Tunis) and Tunisian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The President of Tunisia's unicameral parliament (l’Assemblée des Représentants du Peuple, aka ARP), Mohamed Ennaceur, has announced that a national day, possibly a one-off non-working public holiday in Tunisia, would be organized to celebrate last Friday's winning of the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize by a quartet of 4 Tunisian organizations. [full story]

Nepal Rules-Out Dashain Public Holidays Extension

Sources: नेपाली गृह मंत्रालय के मंत्रालय (Kathmandu) and Nepalese bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Information Officer at Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers of Nepal, Chiranjibi Poudel, has announced that the Cabinet of the Government of Nepal had decided not to go along with the proposal of the Nepalese Home Minister, Bamdev Gautam, who had suggested, yesterday, to extend the upcoming Dashain Nepalese public holidays, into a 15-day period of non-working public holidays throughout Nepal. [full story]

Ireland Rejects April 24 or 25 Public Holidays

Sources: Houses of the Oireachtas- National Parliament (Dublin) and Ireland bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Earlier this week, the Cabinet of the Government of the Republic of Ireland, gave consideration to last year's proposal for an annual, or one-off in 2016, Republic Day non-working public holiday, from the All-Party Consultation Group on Commemorations, but decided that "as Easter weekend is traditionally associated with the [1916 Easter] Rising, there was no need to mark it with another day off". [full story]

Guatemalan Bank Holiday October 12

Sources: Diario de Centro América (Diario público de Guatemala) and Guatemala bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The supervisory body in charge of the banking sector in Guatemala (the Superintendencia de Bancos de Guatemala) has announced that, in line with , the upcoming annual "Día de la Raza" bank holiday of Guatemala would be observed on Monday, October 12, 2015. [full story]

Macedonian Public Holidays October 11-12

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 Sunday, October 11, 2015, had been declared a non-working public holiday for all the citizens of Macedonia on account of the upcoming Day of Popular Uprising annual non-working public holiday in Macedonia. [full story]

Costa Rican Public Holiday October 12

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 Minister of Labour has confirmed that the upcoming October 12 non-working public holiday for Costa Rica's (Día del Encuentro de Culturas) was an official non-working public holiday (feriado de pago no obligatorio), as per the amended public holidays legislation of Costa Rica and that, as it occurs on a Monday in 2015, its observance would not be moved to another date. [full story]

Sint Maarten Adds Constitution Day Public Holiday

Sources: Government of Sint Maarten (Great Bay) and Sint Maarten bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Government of Sint Maarten has announced that, the long-discussed, October 10, new annual non-working public holiday in Sint Maarten would come into effect as of this year (this month, to be more precise) and that "Constitution Day will be celebrated as a Public Holiday on October 12th 2015". [full story]

Nepal Mulls 2015 Dashain Public Holidays Extension

Sources: नेपाली गृह मंत्रालय के मंत्रालय (Kathmandu) and Nepalese bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). A spokesperson for the Home Ministry of the Government of Nepal, Laxmi Prasad Dhakal, has announced the Nepalese Home Ministry was tabling a proposal to extend the upcoming Dashain, 5-day, Nepalese public holidays, into a 15-day period of non-working public holidays throughout Nepal, "in view of the ongoing fuel crisis in the country due to the Indian restriction on importing fuel". [full story]

Kuwaiti Hijri 1437 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: الكويت جنة الخدمة المدنية (Kuwait City) and Kuwaiti bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Kuwaiti Civil Service Commission has announced that it had declared Wednesday, October 14, 2015, as the date of the annual non-working public holiday of Kuwait for the upcoming New Hijri Year 1437. [full story]

Spain 2016 Valencia Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Consell de la Generalitat Valenciana (Valencia) and Spain bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Consell de la Generalitat Valenciana has announced its annual official calendar of non-working public holidays in Spain's autonomous region of Valencia for the upcoming calendar year 2016. [full story]

Germany 2017 BE Reformation Public Holiday

Sources: Berliner Morgenpost (Berlin) and Germany bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Home Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies (Innenausschuss des Abgeordnetenhauses) of Germany's state (Land) of Berlin, with the votes of the governing SPD/CDU coalition, as well as those of the Greens opposition, approved the bill that would declare October 31, 2017, as a one-off public holiday (gesetzlichen Feiertag) to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther posting his ninety-five theses on the door of the Castle Church of Wittenberg. [full story]

Jordanian Hijri 1437 Public Holiday Announced

Sources: وكالة الأنباء الأردنية بترا (Amman) and Jordan bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Jordanian Prime Minister, Abdullah Ensour, has issued a circular decreeing a public holiday in Jordan on Thursday, October 15, 2015, to commemorate the upcoming annual Jordanian non-working public holiday for the Hijri New Year 1437. [full story]

Omani Public Holidays For Hijri New Year 1437

Sources: وكالة الأنباء العمانية (Muscat) and Omani bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Oman's Minister of the Diwan of Royal Court, Sayyid Khalid bin Hilal bin Saud Al Busaidi, has announced the decision to declare a non-working public holiday for the employees of the ministries, public authorities and other departments of the State's administrative apparatus, on the occasion of the upcoming annual Hijri New Year 1437 non-working public holiday in Oman. [full story]

Thailand 2016 Public Holidays Extended

Sources: ธนาคารแห่งประเทศไทย (Bangkok) and Thailand bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Thailand's Government Cabinet, once again at the request of the Ministry of Tourism and Sports, Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul, has declared 2 additional one-off non-working public holidays in 2016 in Thailand, to create a four-day period of public holidays in Thailand near the annual Coronation Day public holiday, and a five-day period of public holidays for the annual Thai public holiday of Asalha Puja and Buddhist Lent. [full story]

Cambodia 2016 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 Kor.Bor/Bror.Kor establishing Cambodia's annual list of official non-working public holidays for the upcoming calendar year 2016. [full story]

Philippines Extends APEC 2015 Public Holidays

Sources: Philippine Information Agency (Manila) and Philippines bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Malacañang has issued Memorandum Circular 84, signed on behalf of Philippines' President, Benigno Aquino III, by Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr, which extends the previously-announced November one-off public holidays declared in the Manila National Capital Region (NCR), on account of the 2015 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting. [full story]

Bangladesh Moves 2015 Durga Puja Public Holiday

Sources: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) and Bangladesh bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Bangladesh's Cabinet Division Secretary, Muhammad Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, has announced that the previously-released list of official non-working public holidays in Bangladesh for the calendar year 2015 had been amended by moving the date of the upcoming Durga Puja annual non-working public holiday of Bangladesh, from its announced date of October 23, 2015.. [full story]

Ecuador Public Holiday October 9

Sources: Agencia de Noticias del Ecuador y Sudamérica (ANDES) and Ecuador bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Ecuador's Minister of Tourism (Ministra de Turismo), Sandra Naranjo, has issued a communique confirming that the upcoming October 9, feriado nacional por la Independencia de Guayaquil, is a compulsory annual non-working public holiday in Ecuador which will be observed, this year, on Friday, October 9, 2015. [full story]

Australian NT 2016 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 it quasi-annual list of non-working public holidays in Australia's Northern Territory for the calendar year 2016. [full story]

Panama October 5 Public Holiday Ruled-Out

Presidencia de la República de Panamá (Panama City) and Panama public holidays (qppstudio.net). Panama's President, Juan Carlos Varela, has issued an official statement ruling-out the declaration of a one-off non-working public holiday in Panama on Monday, October 5, 2015, following the declaration of a day of national mourning (Día de Duelo Nacional) on Sunday, October 4, 2015, to mourn the recent death of former Panamanian President, Eric Arturo Delvalle. [full story]

Bangladesh 2016 Public Holidays Draft

Sources: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) and Bangladesh bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Bangladesh's Public Administration Ministry, has announced that it had finalized the draft version of the annual list of official non-working public holidays in Bangladesh for the upcoming calendar year 2016. [full story]

Bhutanese 2016 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Royal Civil Service Commission of Bhutan (Thimphu) and Bhutanese bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Royal Civil Service Commission of the Government of Bhutan has released its annual official list of national and regional non-working public holidays in Bhutan for the upcoming calendar year 2016, comprising the end of the present Year of the Wood Female Sheep and most of the upcoming Year of the Fire Male Monkey. [full story]

Papua New Guinea 2016 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (Port Moresby) and Papua New Guinea bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Acting Governor-General of Papua New Guinea, Theodore Zurenuoc, has released the annual gazetted official list of appointed non-working public holidays in Papua New Guinea for the upcoming calendar year 2016. [full story]