Chinese New Year 2012 – declared special non-working day

Year 2012 is the Year of the Dragon - Chinese Zodiac Dragon.

"This coming January 23, 2012, Monday, is the day of the celebration of Chinese New Year. And under Proclamation No. 84, Chinese New Year is declared as special non-working holiday in the country."

Chinese new year 2012 // Year of the dragon (Picture, by lemongraphic.sg)

2012 Philippine Holidays - Official Calendar List

Philippine Calendar Holidays List -all inclusive holidays.

Time to book those promo flights and plan your much-awaited vacation for 2012 as the Philippine Holidays are declared under Presidential Proclamation 295.

Regular Holidays
New Year’s Day – January 1 (Sunday)
Maundy Thursday- April 5
Good Friday – April 6
Araw ng Kagitingan – April 9 (Monday)
Labor Day -May 1 (Tuesday)
Independence Day – June 12 (Tuesday)
National Heroes Day – August 27 (Last Monday of August)
Bonifacio Day – November 30 (Friday)
Christmas Day – December 25 (Tuesday)
Rizal Day – December 30
Special (Non-Working) Days
Chinese New Year – January 23 (Monday)
Ninoy Aquino Day – August 21 (Tuesday)
All Saints Day – November 1 (Thursday)
Additional special (non-working) day – November 2 (Friday)
Last Day of the Year- December 31 (Monday
Special Holiday (for all schools)
EDSA Revolution Anniversary – February 25 (Saturday)
Eid’l Fitr and Eid’l Adha
(These are tentative only, official dates to be announced by our Muslim brethrens)
Eid-al-Fitr – August 20 (Monday)
Eid-al-Adha – October 26 (Friday)
Long Weekends are:
January 21-23, 2012 (Chinese New Year)
April 5-9, 2012 (Holy Week and Araw ng Kagitingan)
April 28-29 (April 30) May 1, 2012 (Labor Day)
August 18-21, 2012 (Eid-al-Fitr and Ninoy Aquino Day)
August 25-27, 2012 (National Heroes Day)
October 26-28, 2012 (Eid-al-Adha)
November 1-4 (All Saints’ Day)
November 30-Dec 2 (Bonifacio Day)
December 29-Jan 1 (New Year)

Eid Al-Adha Holiday: NOV 7 is Regular holiday Palace Announced

Eid'l-Adha or the the Feast of Sacrifice (Image ph.news.yahoo)

President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III has declared November 7 a National holiday, in celebration of the Eid Al-Adha Holidays or the the Feast of Sacrifice.

Eid'l Adha, one of the two greatest feasts of Islam, shall be celebrated as a holiday.

Eid Al-Adha Celebrated by Muslims worldwide, Eid'l Adha is an important religious holiday that commemorates the willingness of Abraham to sacrifice his son Ishmael for Allah.

The Islamic event is usually celebrated for at least three days in Arab and Muslim countries.

This means Filipinos will have two long weekends in November 2011. October 31 (Monday) and November 01 (Tuesday) are already special non-working holidays.