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United Arab Emirates/Public holidays (2020) New Year's Day Wed, 1 Jan 2020 Prophet's Ascension Likely 21–22 Mar 2020* Eid al-Fitr Eve Likely Sat, 23 May 2020 Eid al-Fitr Likely 23–25 May 2020* Day of Arafat Likely 29–30 Jul 2020* Eid al-Adha Likely 31 Jul – 2 Aug 2020* Islamic New Year Likely 19–20 Aug 2020* Prophet's Birthday Likely 28–29 Oct 2020* Commemoration Day Mon, 30 Nov 2020 National Day Wed, 2 Dec 2020 *Individual states/territories have additional holidays Should you have queries or comments, please don't hesitate to drop me a line in the comment section! Source: gulfnews.com/UAE Labour Laws Tnx KSM

In UAE they are foreseeing to celebrate the ramadan feast starting from July 10, to August 9, 2013. This year is foreseen to have the longest hours for feasting that will reach about 15 hours of fasting for Muslim. Accordingly, Government in Dubai & Sharjah announced that public and private sectors working hours will be shorten of 2 hours each day to give consideration to Muslim feasting. Complete and detailed memorandum is available at MOL. KSM

2012 Singapore Holidays I am planning to visit this country by early next year, and plan to stay for 1 week...so i have also to consider that my timing will be great as the days i have chosen to visit the country is Excellent and NO Holidays has been announced nor any Public Holidays scheduled. Below is the 2012 Approved Public & Announced  Holidays in Singapore... Date Description of Holiday January 1, 2012 New Year's Day - Sunday* January 23 & 24, 2012 Chinese New Year - Monday & Tuesday April 6, 2012 Good Friday - Friday May 1, 2012 Labour Day - Tuesday May 5, 2012 Vesak Day - Saturday August 9, 2012 National Day - Thursday August 19, 2012 Hari Raya Puasa - Sunday* October 26, 2012 Hari Raya Haji - Friday November 13, 2012 Deepavali - Tuesday** December 25, 2012 Christmas Day - Tuesday * Following Day is also declare...

2012 Malaysia Holidays Malaysia is one of the countries who have a long-list of Holidays within a calendar year and you can see it from below post: Date Holiday Applicable to 1 Jan (Sun) New Year All except Johor, Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis & Terengganu 14 Jan (Sat) Yang di-Pertuan Besar Negeri Sembilan's Birthday Negeri Sembilan only 15 Jan (Sun) Sultan of Kedah's Birthday Kedah only 23 Jan (Mon) Chinese New Year National 24 Jan (Tue) Chinese New Year (2nd Day) National except Kelantan and Terengganu 1 Feb (Wed) Federal Territory Day Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Labuan & Putrajaya only 5 Feb (Sun) Prophet Muhammad's Birthday (Maulidur Rasul) National 7 Feb (Tue) Thaipusam Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya, Johor, Negeri Sembilan, Perak, Penang & Selangor only 4 Mar (Sun) Anniversary of Installation of Sultan of Terengganu Terengganu only 6 Apr (Fri) Good Friday Sabah & Sarawak only 11 Apr (Wed) Installation of the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong National...

2012 England and Wales Holidays In UK Holidays are distributed based on states, below i am citing 2 states list of 2012 Holidays for your information and reference:  New Year's Day Holiday  January 2  Good Friday  April 6  Easter Monday  April 9  Early May Bank Holiday  May 7  Spring Bank Holiday  June 4  Diamond Jubilee Holiday  June 5  Summer Bank Holiday  August 27  Christmas Day  December 25  Boxing Day  December 26 In case of any errors or comments, please do not hesitate to drop me a message via comments! Source: Government of England and Wales Tnx for reading KSM

2012 India Holidays In UAE, the big population are comes from Indian community, so i decided to gather the list of their country's declared public and regional Holidays. I was amazed to find out that they have a huge list of Holidays within 1 year. You will see it below: 2012 Date Name Remarks January 26 Republic Day January 30 Public Holiday Punjab Only. For assembly elections. February 5 Milad-un-Nabi Birthday of Prophet Muhammad February 7 Guru Ravidas Jayanti Restricted Holiday. Chandigarh, Haryana, Punjab only. February 20 Maha Shivratri Celebrated on the 13th night/14th day in the Krishna Paksha March 8 Holi March 23 Ugadi Telugu New Year. Karnataka (Bangalore), Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh only. April 1 Ram Navami April 5 Mahavir Jayanti April...

2012 Russia Holidays I came across my audience, so i noticed that many from this countries are viewing it, so i decided to provide them the public Holidays declaration as per their official approve Holidays for 2012. DATE NAME OF HOLIDAY REMARKS January 1 New Years Day January 2 Bank Holiday January 3 Bank Holiday January 4 Bank Holiday January 5 Bank Holiday January 6 Bank Holiday January 7 Orthodox Christmas Day January 9 Orthodox Christmas in lieu February 23 Defence of the Motherland March 8 Womens Day Weekday closest to International Women's Day March 9 Bridge holiday Compensated from Sun Mar 11 April 30 Labour Day (bridge) Compensated by Sat Apr 28 May 1 Labour Day May Day May 7 Public holiday (bridge) For Victory day ...

Philippines Public Holidays - 2012 The Philippine is one of the best countries in the world! It has 7,107 Islands surrounds it. Every year we as Filipinos/Filipinas, celebrates occassions according to our traditions way back centuries ago and the following dates were written to provide you information about our valued dates/celebrations within 1 year. January - 01 Sunday  New Year's Day  January - 23  Monday  Chinese New Year February - 25 Saturday  People Power Day April - 05  Thursday  Maundy Thursday April - 06  Friday  Good Friday April - 07  Saturday  Black Saturday April - 09  Monday  Day of Valor May - 01 T uesday  Labor Day June - 12  Tuesday  Independence Day August - 20  Monday  Eidul Fitr August - 21  Tuesday  Ninoy Aquino Day August - 27  Monday  National Heroes' Day October - 26  Friday  Eidul Adha November - 01  Thursday  All Sa...

List of 2012 UAE Holidays International New Year’s Day New Year 2012 Sunday, 1 January 2012 Mouloud – Birth of the Prophet Mohammed Sunday, 5 February 2012 Israa & Miaraj Night / Leilat al-Meiraj – Ascension of the Prophet Sunday, 17 June 2012 Start of Ramadhan Friday, 20 July 2012 Eid al-Fitr – End of Ramadan, 3-days public holiday Eid 2012 Sunday, 19 August 2012 Monday, 20 August 2012 Tuesday, 21 August 2012 Arafat (Haj) Day Thursday, 25 October 2012 Eid al-Adha / Qurban – Feast of the Sacrifice, a 3-days public holiday Qurban 2012 Friday, 26 October 2012 Saturday, 27 October 2012 Sunday, 28 October 2012 Al-Hijra / Hijri New Year’s Day – Islamic New Year Thursday, 15 November 2012 UAE National Day – a 2-days public holiday Sunday, 2 December 2012 Monday, 3 December 2012 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Should you have queries or comments, please don...