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Bank of Thailand sets 18 bank holidays, eight long weekends in 2027

August 28, 2026

Thailand’s 2027 banking calendar lists 18 nationwide holidays, including eight long weekends and a four-day break from May 1 to May 4

Toll-Free Expressway Travel Announced for Three-Day Thai Holiday

July 25, 2026

The Expressway Authority of Thailand will waive toll fees across 63 plazas on three major routes from 28 to 30 July to ease holiday travel and congestion

Cabinet confirms August 12 as annual national holiday in Thailand

TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2026

Thailand’s Cabinet has retained August 12 as an annual public holiday marking the birth anniversary of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit The Queen Mother and National Mother’s Day.

Fitting tribute: King Rama IX Memorial Day renamed Nawamindra Maharaj Day

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

At its weekly meeting on Tuesday, the Cabinet resolved to rename King Rama IX Memorial Day, which is marked annually on October 13, to “Nawamindra Maharaj Day”.

Thailand’s most famous Songkran festival

SUNDAY, APRIL 09, 2023

Songkran is the Thai New Year's national holiday. The days of water-splashing merriment in April are also marked in several other Asian countries.

New Turkey purge on eve of failed coup anniversary

SATURDAY, JULY 15, 2017

ISTANBUL - Turkey announced the dismissal of another 7,000 police, soldiers and officials on Friday, a new purge on the eve of the one-year anniversary of a military-led coup that failed to topple President Tayyip Erdogan.