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Politics affects everything, including public holidays. As an indication of Vietnam’s new openness, Christinas, New Year’s Day, Tet (Lunar New Year) and Buddha’s Birthday were re-established as holidays after a 15-year lapse.

The following is a list of Vietnam’s pub­lic holidays:

New Year’s Day (Tet Duong Lich) 1 January

Anniversary of the Founding of the Viet­namese Communist Party (Thanh Lap Dang CSVN) 3 February – the Vietnamese Commu­nist Party was founded on this date in ] 930.

Liberation Day (Saigon Giai Phong) 30 April – the date on which Saigon surrendered is com­memorated nationwide as Liberation Pay Many cities and provinces also commemorate the anniversary of the date, in March or Aprit 1975, on which they were ‘liberated’ bv the North Vietnamese Army

International Workers’ Day (Quoc Te Lao Dong) 1 May – also known as May Day, this falls back-lo-back with Liberation Day, giving everyone a two-day holiday

Ho Chi Minh’s Birthday (Sinh Nhat Bac Ho) 19 May

Buddha’s Birthday (Phat Dan) Eighth day  of the fourth moon (usually June)

National Day (Quocc Khanh) 2 September -commemorates the proclamation of the Decla­ration of Independence ol the Democratic Re­public of Vietnam by Ho Chi Minh in 1945.

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Cliiistmas (Giang Sinh) 25 December

Special prayers are held at Vietnamese and Chinese pagodas when the moon is full or just the thinnest sliver. Many Buddhists eat only vegetarian food on these days, which, according to the Chinese lunar calendar, fall on the 14th and 15th days of the month and from the last (29th or 30th) day of the month to the first daj of the next month.

Festivals

The following major religious festivals in­clude Ihe lunar date (check against any Viet­namese calendar for the Gregorian dates):

Tet (Tel Nguyen Dan) first to seventh days of the first moon – the Vietnamese Lunar New Year is the most important festival of the year and falls in late January or early February. This public holiday is officially three days, but many peo­ple take an entire week off work and few busi­nesses are open.

Holiday of ihe Deal (Thanh Minh) Fifth day of the third moon – people pay solemn visits lo graves of deceased relatives, specially tidied up a few days before, and make offerings of food, flowers, Joss stick; and votive papers.

Buddha’s Birth, Enlightenment and Death Eighth day of the fourth moon-this day is cele­brated at pagodas and temples which, like many private homes, are festooned with lanterns. Pro­cessions are held in Ihe evening. This festival has been redesignated a public holiday.

Summer Solstice Day (Tet Doan Ngo) Fifth day of the fifth moon – offerings are made to spir­its, ghosts and the God of Death to ward of Fepi­demics. Human effigies are burned to satisfy the requirements of the Cod of Death for souls to staff his army.

Wandering Souls Day (Trung Nguyen) Fifteenth day of the seventh moon – this is the second-largest Vietnamese festival of the year. Offer­ings nf food and gifts arc made in homes and pagodas for the wandering souls of Ihe forgotten dead.

Mid-Autumn Festival (Trung Thu) Fifteenth day of the eighth moon – this festival is celebrated with moon cakes ot sticky rice filled with lotus seeds, watermelon seeds, peanuts, the yolks of duck eggs, raisins, sugar and other such things. This festival is like Christmas Day for children, who cairy colourful lanterns in Ihe form of boats, unicorns, dragons, lobsters, carp, hares, toads etc in an evening procession accompanied by the banging of drums and cymbals.

Confucius’ Birthday Twenty-eighth day of the ninth moon

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Holidays are the basic requirements of all the profit or non profit organizations. Here we are taking about the banks and the holiday scheduled for them. The holidays which are planned for the banks are really important as the bank have to conclude the work done in months and years. Some time these bank holidays are in the form of strike and these banks utilize the strike days in completing there pending tasks. It is assumed that bank holidays are the days when banks are shut down but in some banks it is a day for over pending work so as to cope up with the current situations. The holidays which are provided to the banks are on which banks are holidays like Christmas day, Good Friday and Sunday. According to the rules of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971, it is said that the bank holidays are set or decide by legal devises so that public holidays are not lost. Bank holidays in India is announced by RBI (reserve bank of India). Bank holidays are generally public holidays when the banks do not operate. In India these banks holidays are decided by the negotiable instruments act of the banks. Bank holidays are not only year wise but also scheduled on the bases of months. These acts provide holidays to all the seven territories and twenty eight states. Banks in USA are different working schedule than in India. In USA Monday through Friday is known as “Business day”. This day of Monday is treated as the holiday and is also assumed as weekends long events. Rest the days in India which has holidays same works with the USA. There are 10 US national holidays each year so the banks work according them.
In Canada bank holidays are generally fall on the day of public holiday.
The holiday list of Canada is listed below:-
1. New Year – January 1 2. Family Day – February 15
3. Heritage Day – August 2 4. Good Friday – April 2 5. Easter Monday – April 5
6. Victory Day – May 24
7. Aboriginal Day – June 21 8. Canada day – July 1
9. Nunavut holiday – July 9
10. Civic holiday – July 9
11. Christmas – December 25
These are the days which are marked as Canada bank holidays.
The United Kingdom has scheduled 8 holidays in their list for the year 2010 calendars.
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Mobile travel guide: tripwolf for the iPhone

Avoid roaming charges when you travel: tripwolf.com starts a free world travel guide for the iPhone

Vienna, June 9, 2009: The online social travel guide tripwolf [http://www.tripwolf.com] launches the first iPhone application for travelers enabling them to search and download professional, up-to-date travel information before and during their travels.

The tripwolf iPhone application [http://www.tripwolf.com/en/page/iphone] allows users to search and download over 400,000 destinations worldwide and combines travel information from professional travel guides such as “Marco Polo” and “Footprint” with the cumulative knowledge of over 18,000 tripwolf members. The tripwolf iPhone application is available for free and can be used by anyone. Users can search the globe, download city guides to use online or offline, flip through thousands of sights, restaurants, hotels and much more. tripwolf members however receive additional benefits such as automatic synchronization of their scrapbook, easy access to their favorite places, uploading pictures and a quick add to favorites feature. The application is currently available in five languages – English, German, Spanish, French and Italian – in any part of the world.

With the tripwolf iPhone application, users can gather all the professional travel information currently available on the iPhone without the need to be constantly connected to the Internet. Travelers can research all their travel information on tripwolf.com, add it to their scrapbook and automatically synchronize it with their iPhone by simply logging onto their tripwolf account. Users can now simply search relevant travel information on their iPhone or use the easy “Locate Me” feature – by shaking the iPhone, the application offers recommendations close by.

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The tripwolf iPhone application also allows users to choose how much information they want to use offline and also takes different network connection speeds into consideration. Users have the choice of downloading either text only or the whole package that includes pictures. All the functions within the application can also be performed offline and seamlessly synchronize with the tripwolf platform once an Internet connection is found.

“The possibility of using the tripwolf iPhone application offline was extremely important to us. We wanted travelers not to worry about paying high roaming costs”, Sebastian Heinzel (http://www.tripwolf.com/en/traveler/user/10/sebastian), CEO of tripwolf explains, “while still being able to access their personalized tripwolf guides and benefit from location based interactivity.” Collaborating for several months with Salzburg Research, an Austrian research organization focused on innovative mobile solutions, the entire team is excited to finally offer the innovative iPhone tripwolf application.

Alexander Trieb (http://www.tripwolf.com/en/traveler/user/78/alex), the tripwolf co-founder responsible for the implementation of the iPhone application, says: “Thanks to Nicolas Göll and his research team in Salzburg we really pushed the boundaries of the iPhone platform. By offering the tripwolf iPhone application we are taking the logical next step in the evolution of travel guides: Beyond the book.”

The tripwolf iPhone application is the seamless connection between tripwolf.com and the iPhone – so if it’s shopping in Berlin (http://www.tripwolf.com/en/guide/show/3204/Germany/Berlin), vodka-sipping in Moscow (http://www.tripwolf.com/en/guide/show/12500/Russia/Moscow), a visit to Montevideo (http://www.tripwolf.com/en/guide/show/13177/Uruguay/Montevideo) or crazy night-life in New York (http://www.tripwolf.com/en/guide/show/5026/USA/New-York-State-NY/New-York-City), tripwolf users can always find their way around.

About tripwolf.com

tripwolf.com is a social online travel guide available in five languages – English, German, French, Spanish and Italian. What makes it special is the content mix: professional editorial from print travel guides like “Marco Polo” and “Footprint” paired with user generated content by users from all over the world. Users can add personal blog posts, ratings and photos to about 400.000 different destinations worldwide. Users can use the entire data available of www.tripwolf.com on the iPhone application and have the choice between on- and offline access.

About Salzburg Research

Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft is the non-profit research organisation of the State of Salzburg. It conducts applied research and development in the field of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the fields of Digital Media, eCulture, eTourism and EduMedia. The department for “mobile and web-based information systems (MOWI)” under supervision of Nicolas Göll is in charge of the technical development of the application.

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