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And while Pakistani visitors do still come on public holidays, he says very few foreign tourists visit Mohenjo Daro now.
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The Association of Chief Police Officers has suggested scrapping a host of additional payments and bonuses, as well as reducing the amount of overtime paid for working on public holidays.
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It says the UK depends far more on services than other countries and that sector - with the exception of the hospitality industry - tends to work far less on public holidays.
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Most demonstrators are middle-class people, he says, who prefer to protest at weekends or on public holidays and eschew violence (he receives frequent calls from the police telling him to stay away altogether).
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Each new public employee can count on 21 days of paid holiday, 14 public holidays on which he gets paid, and 21 days of paid sick leave.
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The training area is used throughout the year except on Sundays, public holidays and during August.
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Markets in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan and Thailand were closed on Monday for public holidays.
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They entitle holders to free local bus travel after 09.30 on weekdays and all day on weekends and public holidays.
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That figure included the so-called aqueduct in early December in which two public holidays fell on Tuesday and Thursday of the same week.
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According to the Reuters, news agency the meeting will reconvene on Tuesday, Friday and Monday being public holidays in Germany.
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The celebrations continue on Monday and Tuesday, which have been declared public holidays to mark the diamond jubilee.
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Spain's 14 public holidays, mostly Catholic in origin, can fall on any day, and Spaniards are guaranteed a minimum of 22 additional vacation days.
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