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Long weekend

A long weekend is a term used in Western countries to denote a weekend that is at least three days long (a three-day weekend), due to a holiday falling on either the Friday or Monday. In the United Kingdom these would be termed a bank holiday weekend.

In some cases there may also be a four-day weekend in which two days adjoining the weekend are holidays—either Thursday and Friday, Friday and Monday, or Monday and Tuesday. This occurs once a year where the Easter weekend is celebrated, with Easter Monday and Good Friday. Countries that celebrate both Christmas Day and Boxing Day can also have a four-day weekend when these adjacent holidays fall on Thursday/Friday or Monday/Tuesday. Additionally, in places where a lone holiday occurs on a Tuesday or a Thursday, the gap between that day and the weekend may also be designated as a holiday, or set to be a movable or floating holiday.

Thailand Business and Public Holidays 2007

• January 01
  New Year's Day
• January 02
  Substitute for New Year's Day
• March 03
  Makha Bucha Day
• March 05
  Substitute for Makha Bucha Day
• April 06
  Chakri Day
• April 13 - 15
  Songkran Days
• April 16
  Substitute for Songkran Days
• May 01
  National Labour Day
• May 05
  Coronation Day
• May 07
  Substitute for Coronation Day
• May 31
  Visakha Bucha Day
• July 30
  Buddhist Lent Day
• August 12
  H.M. The Queen's Birthday
• August 13
  Substitute for H.M. The Queen's Birthday
• October 23
  Chulalongkorn Memorial Day
• December 05
  H.M. The King's Birthday
• December 10
  Constitution Day
• December 31
  New Year's Eve

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