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Bank and Public Holidays for Myanmar

Myanmar 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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19 Oct 2011 (Myanmar Government-Yangoon) The government of Myanmar has announced the dates of the official non-working public holidays in Myanmar for the calendar year 2012. • 21 Sep 2010 (Myanmar Government-Yangoon) The government of Myanmar has announced the dates of public holidays in Myanmar for the calendar year 2011. • 12 Dec 2009 (Myanmar Government Site-Yangoon) The government of Myanmar has confirmed the date of the upcoming Kayin New Year public holiday, as Wednesday, December 16, 2009. • 18 Jul 2008 (Deutsche Press Agentur) In a surprise, last-minute move, the celebrations of the July 19, 2008, Martyrs' Day public holiday, have been downgraded from a national to a city-level ceremony, and invitations to foreign diplomats to attend the ceremony have been cancelled. • 12 Apr 2007 (The Irrawaddy) The Myanmar government has designated a 10-day-long New Year public holiday, from Friday, April 13, to Sunday, April 22, 2007. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Myanmar public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Kasone Full Moon commemorates Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and passing. • Kayin New Year (also known as Karen New Year): Note that because the date of Kayin New Year is based on the phases of the Moon, there are Gregorian calendar years when no Kayin New Year is celebrated and there are some Gregorian calendar years when it is celebrated twice. • Myanmar International Codes MM and MMR (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .mm (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Myanmar 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 (Myanmar maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Myanmar), and Wikipedia (includes Myanmar commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

Religion of Specific Business Contacts : Some of the business contacts that you may be trying to meet in Myanmar, may belong to a religious group that is not common in Myanmar, and therefore which is not included in the above list of public holidays or bank holidays. To be safe, you should also verify that no major religious holidays coincides with any planned business trip to Myanmar. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

Religious Holidays : Public holidays in Myanmar 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.

Burmese and Arakanese Calendars Public Holidays : The rules used to predict traditional lunar public holidays in Myanmar 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. by J.C. Eade and Dr. Burghart Hoffrichter), and on the classical 1901 book "The Burmese Calendar" by A.M.B. Irwin, the 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 Myanmar, 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 Myanmar, before planning any trip to Myanmar. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our worldwide public holidays news and updates page or subscribe to our free email newsletters.