1. New Years Day: January 01: Celebrating the beginning of the Gregorian New Year
2. Victory from Genocide Day: January 07: Commemorating the ending day of the Pol Pots defeated by Vietnamese in 1979
3. Meak Bochea: Usually in February: The full moon of the third lunar month, veneration day of Buddha
4. International Women’s Day: March 08: Big day for all woman in all nation
5. Cambodian New Year: April 13-15 or 14-16: A big Khmer festival. Cambodian people will enjoy playing Cambodian traditional games, and most of the Cambodians would go to their homeland cities or province to stay and enjoy with their relative. Choul Chhnam Thmey in Khmer Language!
6. Visaka Bochea: April or May: Informally called “Buddha’s birthday,”
7. Labour Day: May 01: Annual holiday celebrated all over the world
8. Royal Ploughing Ceremony: May: An ancient royal held to mark the beginning of the rice-growing season. It was called “Preah Reach Pithi Chrot Preah Neangkol” in Khmer
9. The Cambodia King’s Birthday: May 13 – May 15: The birthday of King Norodom Sihamoni in May 14, 1953
10. The Cambodia Queen Mother’s Birthday: June 18: The birthday of The Queen Mother Norodom Monineath Sihanouk
11. Constitution Day: September 24: Cambodian constitution by King Sihanouk’s song
12. Pchum Ben: September or October: Khmer Buddhist people’s religious days which everyone will cook all kind of foods and take it to at least 7 pagodas, pray and hope that their deceased relatives would receive all those foods.
13. Coronation Day: October 29: The day the Cambodia king Norodom Sihamoni is formally crowned
14. The King Father’s Birthday: October 31: Birthday of Former Cambodia King Norodom Sihanouk
15. Independence Day: November 9: The day when Cambodia gained its independence from France in 1953
16. Water Festival (Bon Om Touk in Khmer): November: Cambodian traditional festival, every city and province would join each other by putting their boat to race on the Tonle Sap in Phnom Penh
17. Human Rights Day: December 10: To honour the United Nations General Assembly’s adoption and proclamation, on 10 December 1948, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the first global enunciation of human rights.
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