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Bank and Public Holidays for Laos

Laos bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2012, from the Q++ Worldwide Public Holidays Database, the professional source of international public holidays long trusted by the world's foremost diary publishers. The information on this page is provided for private, non-professional, use.

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05 Apr 2012 (The Government of the Lao People's Democratic Republic-Ventiane) The government of Laos has declared Monday and Tuesday, April 16 and 17, 2012, as additional non-working public holidays in Laos. • 17 Jan 2012 (The Ventiane Times-Ventiane) The government of Laos has released the official list of 2012 non-working public holidays in Laos. • 09 Apr 2011 (The Ventiane Times-Ventiane) The Prime Minister’s Office of Laos has issued a communique officially declaring April 13-15 as the dates of the upcoming Pi Mai non-working public holidays. • 30 Dec 2010 (The Ventiane Times-Ventiane) The head of the Laos government secretariat, Cheuang Sombounkhan, has announced that Monday January 3, 2011, would be a public holiday in compensation for the annual New Year's Day holiday which falls on Saturday in 2010. • 10 Apr 2009 (The Ventiane Times-Ventiane) The government of Laos has confirmed that there is to be an extended public sector holiday over the upcoming Pi Mai Lao (Lao New Year) this year, from Monday to Friday, April 13-17, 2009. • 08 Apr 2008 (Vientiane Times) The government has announced that Wednesday April 16 will be a day in lieu public holiday, in compensation for the first day of the Lao New Year public holiday, April 13, falling on a Sunday in 2008. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Laos public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Governing Law: Official public holidays in Laos are regulated by the 1994 Labour Code (Decree No. 24/PR of the President of the Republic, dated 21 April 1994 promulgating Act No. 002/NA of 14 March 1994 concerning labour), which stipulates, in section 28, that the actual list of public holidays is given annually by the government. • Festivals: Although many online sources list 15 or more public holidays for Laos (including The Day of Europe on some websites), there are actually very few official public holidays. Some non-official, but widely observed, holidays are listed here with observance restrictions, as some businesses might be closed on these days. • Lao Issara (Day of Free Laos) on August 13 seems to have been replaced by Constitution Day (August 15) sometime in 2004-2005, but neither of these dates is an official public holiday in Laos nowadays. • Liberation Day (from French) also seems to have been removed from the official list of Laos public holidays around that time. • Laos International Codes LA and LAO (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .la (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Laos information and news: ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Laos maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Laos), and Wikipedia (includes Laos commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

Observance : Any entry in the Observance column indicates that, in Laos, the holiday may be regional or non-official or limited to certain religious and/or linguistic groups, or begin at a time other than midnight. Note that religious holidays are included only if they are national public holidays, or if the national labour code has specific holiday allowances for employees of specific religions. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

Religious Holidays : Public holidays in Laos that are based on certain religious calendars may be subject to local variations due to differing interpretations between different religious authorities, or to seemingly arbitrary changes in the date a holiday is celebrated because it conflicts with another holiday that is based on another calendar, or because the day of the holiday is deemed inauspicious (bad luck). To find out more about these uncertainties, see the footnote below, if any, for each specific religion.

South-East Asian Calendar Public Holidays : The rules used to predict South-East Asian lunar public holidays in Laos are based on the models described in the book "The Calendrical Systems of Mainland South-East Asia", by J.C. Eade, published as part of the "Handbuch der Orientalistik" series (with help by Pr. J.C. Eade and Dr. Burghart Hoffrichter), and on the classical 1909 book "The Burmese and Arakanese Calendars" by A.M.B. Irwin, as well as the 1997 articles in the Indian Journal of History of Science by G.K. Chatterjee.

Disclaimer
In many parts of the world, holidays are subject to arbitrary, last minute, changes by local authorities. While every effort has been made to present an accurate list of 2012 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Laos, we cannot accept any responsibility for any error or omission in the data presented above. You are therefore advised to verify the above dates with the embassy or consulate of Laos, before planning any trip to Laos. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our worldwide public holidays news and updates page or subscribe to our free email newsletters.