UPDATE (01/13/10): Check this post on Philippine Holiday Schedule for 2010 | PGMA’s Proclamation 1841

UPDATE (11/26/09) – “Malacanang has apologized for taking back an earlier announcement declaring November 27 and 28 as special non-working holidays all over the country. Only ARMM will observe the holiday.

Press Secretary Cerge Remonde acknowledged that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s decision to make the two-day celebration of Eid’l Adha later this month as holidays only in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) was prompted by requests from the business community. (read more at inquirer.net)

UPDATE (old): President Arroyo has declared NOVEMBER 27 & 28 as national non-working holidays for Filipino Muslims’ celebration of Eid Al-Adha or Feast of Sacrifice. (source)

There are ten (10) long-weekend holidays for 2009 and this comes as a good news for those who enjoyed the  recent long holiday season 2008. Well hopefully you would also enjoy more long weekend holidays this 2009. It has been the President’s advocacy of holiday economics (which means the transfer of some holidays to a Monday or a Friday so that Filipinos may enjoy longer weekends) in order to boost domestic tourism and to allow millions of Filipinos especially those working and employed to have more time to spend with their families either going home to their respective provinces or simply going out with their family.

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Yes President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has made the long holiday season 2008 longer since January 2 declared as Non-Working Holiday as announced last December 24. Actually this makes it the longest holiday season in the Philippines with eleven-day holiday for workers in the Philippines.

Here is the updated list of holidays in the Philippines as posted in long holiday season 2008:

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