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Keep abreast of world events and celebrations with
JourneyMart’s exhaustive list of holidays and festivals for
the year 2010.
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| Date |
Occasion |
| January 1 |
New Year's Day |
| February 1 |
Magha Bucha Day* |
| April 6 |
Chakri Day |
| April 15 |
Songkran (Thai New Year) |
| April 28 |
Visakha Bucha |
| May 1 |
Labour Day |
| May 5 |
Coronation Day |
| July 1 |
Mid Year Bank Holiday |
| July 1 |
Khao Phansa Day (Buddhist Lent).* |
| August 12 |
HM The Queen's Birthday |
| October 23 |
Chulalongkorn Day |
| December 5 |
HM The King's Birthday |
| December 10 |
Constitution Day |
| December 31 |
New Year's Eve |
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| * Dates not confirmed |
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| You Should know: |
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| Holidays falling on a Saturday or Sunday are observed on the Monday following by banks, but not by the Government. This includes the moveable holidays below. Apparently many offices also follow the same rule as banks. |
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| The solilunar calendar in use is not completely understood. There is an intercalary 8th month every few years but how it is predicted is not known. It is therefore at present impossible to make projections. Most years, Vaisakh Buddha in Thailand falls 2 days before the Indian Buddha Purnima but in 1996, it fell a full lunar month later. This implies a different set of rules for observing or predicting the lunisolar New Year. |
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| Weekends - Saturday,Sunday |
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