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Public Holidays and Bank Holidays for Laos

The list of Laos bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2008, comes 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. Qualified professionals can license data for 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and beyond. For details, please visit our licensing information page or

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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 • Lao Issara (Day of Free Laos) on August 13 seems to have been replaced by Constitution Day (August 15) sometime in 2004-2005, but neither of these dates is an official public holiday in Laos nowadays.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. • Other Sources of Information For information not covered here, see the following specialized websites: ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (maps, demographic and economic statistics), Copp Clark (financial markets' trading hours, settlement holidays and currency non-clearing days), and the IFES Election Guide (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and past voter participation).

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 Holidays : The rules used to predict South-East Asian 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. Our sincere thanks to Burghart Hoffrichter for his help in making sense of these calendrical systems.

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 2008 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 blog or subscribe to our free email newsletters.