{"id":19281,"date":"2017-07-22T08:59:40","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T00:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=19281"},"modified":"2017-07-21T09:39:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T01:39:18","slug":"malacanang-announces-holidays-for-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2017\/07\/22\/malacanang-announces-holidays-for-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Malacanang announces holidays for 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The list of Philippine regular holidays in 2018 has been released by the Malaca\u00f1ang. President Rodrigo Duterte signed Proclamation No. 269, declaring 18 holidays next year. They have added two non-working days in order to give more time to commemorate All Saints&#8217; Day and Christmas Day. \u00a0Eid&#8217;l Fitr and Eid&#8217;l Adha will be announced when the dates of the Islamic holidays are determined in accordance with the Islamic calendar.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19283\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/07\/laptop-2418659_640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/07\/laptop-2418659_640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/07\/laptop-2418659_640-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Regular Holidays<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>January 1 (Monday) \u2013 New Year\u2019s Day<br \/>\nMarch 29 \u2013 Maundy Thursday<br \/>\nMarch 30 \u2013 Good Friday<br \/>\nApril 9 (Monday) \u2013 Araw ng Kagitingan<br \/>\nMay 1 (Tuesday) \u2013 Labor Day<br \/>\nJune 12 (Tuesday) \u2013 Independence Day<br \/>\nAugust 27 (Monday) \u2013 National Heroes Day<br \/>\nNovember 30 (Friday) \u2013 Bonifacio Day<br \/>\nDecember 25 (Tuesday) \u2013 Christmas Day<br \/>\nDecember 30 (Sunday) \u2013 Rizal Day Special<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Non-Working Days <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>February 16 (Friday) \u2013 Chinese New Year<br \/>\nFebruary 25 (Sunday) \u2013 Edsa People Power Revolution Anniversary<br \/>\nMarch 31 \u2013 Black Saturday<br \/>\nAugust 21 (Tuesday) \u2013 Ninoy Aquino Day<br \/>\nNovember 1 (Thursday) \u2013 All Saints Day<br \/>\nDecember 31 (Monday) \u2013 Last Day of the Year Additional<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Special Non-Working Days<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>November 2 (Friday)<br \/>\nDecember 24 (Monday)<\/p>\n<p>February 16, 2018, will be a special non-working day because Chinese nationals worldwide will celebrate Chinese New Year. The 32<sup>nd<\/sup> anniversary of the Edsa People Power Revolution on February 25, 2018, will also be commemorated according to President Rodrigo Roa Duterte.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Images Source: Pixabay.com<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18 holidays with 10 announced as regular holidays, 6 as special non-working days, and 2 additional non-working days were declared by Malacanang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,5],"tags":[3585,844,3584,3583],"class_list":["post-19281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-news-and-current-events","tag-3585","tag-holidays","tag-holidays-2018","tag-malacanang"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/07\/calendar-660670_640.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19285,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19281\/revisions\/19285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}