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Taiwan 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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13 Feb 2012 (The China Post-Taipei) The Taiwanese government has confirmed that Monday, February 27, 2012, would be a one-off bridge non-working public holiday, linking the previous weekend with the annual, February 28, public holiday. • 21 Jan 2012 (The Central Bank of the Republic of China-CBC) Taiwan's financial authorities have confirmed that they would follow last summer's announcement by the government of Taiwan of the shifting of the Saturday, February 4, 2012, non-working weekly holiday to Friday, January 27, 2012. • 21 Dec 2011 (The China Post-Taipei) Taiwan's Council of Labor Affairs (CLA) and Central Personnel Administration (CPA) are at odds concerning the recently-announced January 2 and 3, 2012, one-off public holidays. • 14 Dec 2011 (Taiwan's Council of Labor Affairs-Taipei) Taiwan's Council of Labor Affairs (CLA) has announced that 2 additional non-working public holidays had been declared in January 2012 in Taiwan. • 29 Sep 2011 (Taiwan Central Personnel Administration-Taipei) Taiwan's Central Personnel Administration (CPA) has published its list of 2012 public holidays, subdivided into: Weekends, Statutory and general national holidays, Particular Parties' Days, and Makeup holidays. • 16 Dec 2010 (Taiwan Central Personnel Administration-Taipei) Taiwan's Central Personnel Administration has finally published its list of 2011 public holidays, subdivided into: Weekends, Statutory and general national holidays, Particular Parties' Days, and Makeup holidays. • 13 Dec 2010 (The China Post-Taipei) At a recent hearing of Taiwan's Legislative Yuan's Judiciary, Organic Laws and Statutes Committee, a KMT lawmaker proposed that national public holidays which fall on a weekend should be compensated by a Friday or Monday additional public holiday. • 31 Aug 2010 (The China Post-Taipei) Taiwan's Cabinet-level Central Personnel Administration (CPA) has released a draft calendar of official non-working public holidays in Taiwan in 2011. • 22 May 2010 (Taiwan's Executive Yuan-Taipei) Taiwan's Executive Yuan has approved a draft bill which would replace the current declaration of public holidays, and compensatory working Saturdays, executive orders by the Cabinet, by permanent legislation. • 25 Mar 2010 (The China Times-Taipei) Taiwan's Ministry of the Interior has officially confirmed that, beginning in 2011, Children’s Day will once again be a national public holiday, to be observed annually on April 4th. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Taiwan public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Weekend Public Holidays: When the Memorial public holidays and the Festival public holidays fall on a Saturday or Sunday, a deferred day off is not allowed. However, Chinese New Year and Chinese New Year's Eve are exempted from this regulation. The regulations for deferred holiday for Labor Day and the Military Memorial Days or other deferred days are determined by the Central Agency Responsible. • Bridge Holidays are sometimes declared on Mondays or Fridays to be able to have an extra long holiday period that would then include a weekend. Work Saturdays are often then declared in order to make up for these extra public holidays. In Taiwan, the Work Saturdays seem to almost always be the Saturday of the following week. This practice, however, seems to have been suspended for calendar year 2008. • 2007 Work Saturdays: March 3, April 14, June 23, September 29. • Non-Official Holidays: The following are not official public holidays, but companies can give their employees a day off at their discretion: •Youth Day (Mach 29) • Women and Children's Day (April 4) •Buddha's Birthday •Confucius' Birthday or Teacher's Day (Sept. 28) •Retrocession Day (Oct. 25) •Chiang Kai Sek's Birthday (Oct. 31) •Sun Yet Sin's Birthday (Nov. 12) •Constitution or Christmas Day (Dec. 25). • Taiwan International Codes TW and TWN (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .tw (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Taiwan 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 (Taiwan maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Taiwan), and Wikipedia (includes Taiwan commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

Observance : Any entry in the Observance column indicates that, in Taiwan, 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. Aft=Afternoon, Arm=Armenian, Bah=Bahai, Bnk=Banks and most financial institutions, Bud=Buddhist, Cat=Catholic, Chr=Christian, Cop=Coptic, Eve=Evening, Gov=Government services and civil servants, Hin=Hindu, Jew=Jewish, Lin=Linguistic or ethnic groups, Mor=Morning, Mun=Municipal, Mus=Muslim, Orth=Orthodox, Othr=Miscellaneous partial observances (usually described in the Additional Information section of this page), Prt=Protestant, Reg=Regional, Rel=Other Religion, Sch=Schools and universities, Sik=Sikh.

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 Taiwan, 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 Taiwan, before planning any trip to Taiwan. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our worldwide public holidays news and updates page or subscribe to our free email newsletters.