| Labour Day - Saturday May 1, 2021 Secular holiday : Quoc Tế Lao Dong
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| Labour Day - Sunday May 2, 2021 Secular holiday : Quoc Tế Lao Dong
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| Labour Day - Monday May 3, 2021 Secular holiday : Quoc Tế Lao Dong
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| Victory Day - Saturday May 7, 2022 Culture : Dien Bien Phu Victory Day
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| Mothers' Day - Sunday May 9, 2021 cards/flowers : Mother’s day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mother’s day has different origins in different countries and therefore occurs on different days in the year.
One school of thought claims that this day emerged from the custom of mother worship in ancient Greece. Mother worship which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of gods, and Rhea, the wife of Cronus, was held on March 15 to March 18 around Asia Minor. They insist that this custom spread around the world.
Mothering Sunday is the celebration of motherhood in the United Kingdom. It is also known as Mid-lent Sunday, Rose Sunday and Laetare Sunday. It originally comes from the Victorian practice of allowing servants to return home to visit their mothers on this day.
In the United States, Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 - October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet. Howe’s Battle Hymn of the Republic was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and quickly became one of the most popular songs for the Union during the American Civil War. After the war she focused her activities on the causes of Pacifism and women’s suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mother’s Day, with her Mother’s Day Proclamation. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson approved Mother’s Day in 1914
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| Buddha's Anniversary - Wednesday May 19, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| President's Day - Wednesday May 19, 2021 Culture : President Ho Chi Minh's Birthday
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| Parliamentary election - Sunday May 23, 2021 Special Events :
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| Summer holiday (beginning) - Monday May 31, 2021 School holidays :
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| Family Day - Friday June 18, 2021 cards/flowers : as of 2020
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday June 20, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Family Day - Monday June 28, 2021 Culture :
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| Remembrance Day - Tuesday July 27, 2021 Culture : Celebration of martyrs and wounded soldiers
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| Parliament recess (end) - Wednesday August 11, 2021 Special Events :
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| Revolution Day - Thursday August 19, 2021 Culture : On August 19, 1945, the Việt Minh under Hồ Chí Minh began rebellion against French colonial rule in Vietnam. [Wikipedia]
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| Ghost Festival - Sunday August 22, 2021 Culture : Hungry Ghost Festival (中元節 / 中元节) falls in the middle of the Ghost Month, supposed to be a bad time for business. Spirits being in high gear, thet are treated with a sumptuous feast, to please them and to bring luck to the family.
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