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3 Holidays. 4 Arts and entertainment. 5 Deaths. 6 References. 7 External links. Toggle the table of contents. 2025 in Hong Kong. 1 language. ... 2024; 2023; 2022; 2025 in
Public holidays in Hong Kong consist of a mix of traditional Chinese and Western holidays, such as Lunar New Year, the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the Dragon Boat Festival, along with Christmas and Easter. Other public holidays include National Day (1 October) and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day (1 July). [1] [2]
The following table is a list of countries by number of public holidays excluding non-regular special holidays. Nepal and India have the highest number of public holidays in the world with 35 annually. Also, Nepal has 6 day working schedule in a week.
6 June: British judges Jonathan Sumption and Lawrence Collins resign from the Court of Final Appeal, with Collins attributing his departure to the “political situation in Hong Kong”. [14] 18 June: Chief Executive John Lee announces that the Hong Kong Stock Exchange would end its practice of shutting trading during typhoons and other extreme ...
The festival was long marked as a cultural festival in China and is a public holiday in China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. The People's Republic of China's government established in 1949 did not initially recognize the Dragon Boat Festival as a public holiday but reintroduced it in 2008 alongside two other festivals in a bid to boost ...
The Double Ninth Festival is a traditional Chinese holiday observed on the ninth day of the ninth month in the Chinese calendar.According to Wu Jun, it dates back to the Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 AD).
Fan Weiqiu is executed for committing the 2024 Zhuhai car attack. [3] Xu Jiajin is executed for committing the 2024 Wuxi stabbing attack. [3] 22 January – A truck rams into 12 vehicles in Bazhong, Sichuan, killing five people. [4]
This led to a change in Remembrance Day, which was changed to the second Sunday of November every year. The Hong Kong government declared August 30 as Liberation Day, a public holiday, to celebrate the end of Japanese occupation. The celebration of the end of World War I was celebrated on Remembrance Day, while the celebration of World War II ...