2015 Public Holidays - Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand

Here is a comparison of the number of public holidays in 2015 for 6 countries in Asia. 

Hong Kong	15 days
Indonesia	15 days
Malaysia	19 days
Philippines	18 days
Singapore	11 days
Thailand	17 days

Malaysia has the most holidays with 19 days and Singapore with the least with 11 days.

Hong Kong Public Holidays in 2015
Jan-01 New Years Day
Feb-19 Chinese New Year 
Feb-20 Chinese New Year 
Apr-03 Good Friday 
Apr-04 Ching Ming Festival
Apr-06 Easter Monday
May-01 Labour Day
May-25 The Buddhas Birthday
Jun-20 Dragon Boat Festival
Jul-01 Special Administration Region (SAR) Day 
Sep-28 Late mid Autumn festival
Oct-01 National Day 
Oct-21 Chung Yeung Festival 
Dec-25 Christmas Day 
Dec-28 Boxing Day (Observed)

Indonesia Public Holidays in 2015
Jan-01 New Years Day
Jan-03 Prophet Muhammad' s Birthday
Feb-18 Chinese New Year
Mar-21 Hari Raya Nyepi
Apr-03 Good Friday 
May-01 Labour Day
May-03 Waisak Day
May-14 Ascension Day
May-15 Isra Miraj
Jul-17 Hari Raya Puasa 
Jul-18 Hari Raya Puasa Holiday
Aug-17 Independence Day 
Sep-23 Idul Adha
Oct-13 Muharram
Dec-25 Christmas Day 

Malaysia Public Holidays in 2015
Jan-01 New Years Day
Jan-03 Prophet Muhammad' s Birthday
Feb-02 Federal Territory Day (observed)
Feb-03 Thaipusam
Feb-19 Chinese New Year 
Feb-20 Chinese New Year Holiday
May-01 Labour Day 
May-03 Wesak Day 
Jun-06 Birthday of SPB Yang di Pertuan Agong 
Jul-04 Nuzul Al-Quran
Jul-17 Hari Raya Puasa 
Jul-18 Hari Raya Puasa Holiday
Aug-31 National Day 
Sep-16 Malaysia Day
Sep-24 Hari Raya Haji 
Oct-14 Awal Muharram 
Nov-10 Deepavali 
Dec-24 Maulidur Rasul
Dec-25 Christmas Holiday

Philippines Public Holidays in 2015
Jan-01 New Years Day
Jan-02 New Year Holiday
Feb-19 Chinese New Year
Feb-25 EDSA People Power Revolution anniversary
Apr-02 Maundy Thursday
Apr-03 Good Friday
Apr-04 Black Saturday
Apr-09 The Day of Valor
May-01 Labor Day
Jun-12 Independence Day
Aug-21 Ninoy Aquino Day
Aug-31 National Heroes Day
Nov-01 All Saints Day
Nov-30 Bonifacio Day
Dec-24 Christmas Eve
Dec-25 Christmas Day
Dec-30 Rizal Day
Dec-31 New Years Eve

Singapore Public Holidays in 2015
Jan-01 New Years Day
Feb-19 Chinese New Year 
Feb-20 Chinese New Year Holiday
Apr-03 Good Friday
May-01 Labour Day 
Jun-01 Wesak Day 
Jul-17 Hari Raya Puasa 
Aug-09 National Day 
Sep-24 Hari Raya Haji 
Nov-10 Deepavali 
Dec-25 Christmas Holiday

Thailand Public Holidays in 2015
Jan-01 New Years Day
Feb-19 Chinese New Year 
Mar-02 Makha Bucha Day
Apr-06 Chakri Day
Apr-13 Songkran Festival
Apr-14 Songkran Festival
Apr-15 Songkran Festival
May-01 Labour Day
May-03 Visakha Bucha Day
May-05 Coronation Day
Jul-01 Asahna Bucha Day
Aug-12 H.M. Queens Birthday
Aug-12 Mothers Day
Oct-23 Chulalongkorn Day
Dec-07 H.M. Kings Birthday (observed)
Dec-10 Constitution Day
Dec-31 New Years Eve

GluayGluay.com Car Insurance Video Advertisement August 2014

Meet Jumbo, the star of GluayGluay.com Thailand's recent car insurance advertisement which went live on 13 Aug 2014. Jumbo played by Khun Chang (Mr. Elephant) was seen driving happily and so pleased with the service he receives that he wants to share the joy by leaving a glowing review online for www.gluaygluay.com/en.

Video Commercial on YouTube

Insurance Rumors and Gossips - Is GluayGluay.com bought by WPP group?

Recently there was news circulating in the Asian financial markets and the emerging internet sector that GluayGluay.com, Thailand's fastest growing online car insurance broker is going to be acquired by WPP, one of the world's largest advertising group.

This calls for a full, open and thorough investigation. 

Findings:

GluayGluay.com is an online brand by Comparexpress Insurance Broker (Thailand) Ltd., they hold both the life and non-life broker licenses from the Office of Insurance Commission (OIC). They are part of the CompareXpress Group that owns Singapore's first financial comparison website. CompareXpress Group is in turn a wholly owned subsidiary of Teledirect Telecommerce, ranked #1 for Best Large Outsourced Contact Center in APAC 2014 at the Contact Center World Awards. And, WPP is a substantial shareholder of Teledirect Telecommerce as cited here "In 1996, the WPP Group acquired a forty percent share of the company", source Wikipedia. 

Hence the rumor that WPP is buying GluayGluay.com is not true, since GluayGluay.com is already part of the WPP group.

How GluayGluay.com got 100,000 fans on Facebook

GluayGluay.com, the fastest growing car insurance website in Thailand, has over 100,000 fans on Facebook. While, sure, that’s far fewer fans than some of the bigger, more established brands in Thailand — at the time of writing SCB has 1,425,018; KBank 1,423,557; Samsung Mobile 1,411,090; Tesco Lotus 1,107,121 and Agoda 409,100. Among the car insurance players with strong online presence (mostly non-life insurance brokers), GluayGluay.com come out tops with 100,150; Directasia 50,198; Askhanuman 43,513; Silkspan 19,430; Prakunrod 2,754 and TQM 2,434. For a fairly new brand in the market…a six-figure fan club is a pretty big deal.

100K Celebration Post on Facebook

“Some kind of magic”

When someone’s Facebook page has over 100,000 likes, I need to ask how they did it. “Once you turn your business, your brand, on with social media it explodes faster than you could've ever thought possible! More than we’d ever imagined,” commented Laurent Junique, GluayGluay.com’s CEO — but it’s also one of strategy. “We stick to a simple concept of bringing fun to everyone rather than promoting our car insurance comparison services.”

Starting in early 2013, Laurent and GluayGluay.com’s Assistant Manager of Operations, Ms Vichada Chaipatavee built on the site’s social integration with an aggressive Facebook-based marketing campaign, creating posts and ads to capture the interest of the site’s members. When they began those efforts, GluayGluay.com had only 10,000 or so followers. For the statisticians out there, that’s about a 1,000 percent increase.

“Engagement”

One of the best performing post, got 59,121 likes, 6.515 shares and 3,673 comments, eventually led to more than 800,000 people viewing this post. Which comes back to the idea that engagement, as notoriously difficult as it is both to inspire and to measure. It doesn't happen just by putting up an image with a line of text. It takes more than that. You have to get people’s attention.

Instagram Page of GluayGluay.com

Thailand's Fastest Growing Car Insurance Website - GluayGluay.com launched its Instagram page on 4 April 2013 - #GGmotor

It has more than 400 followers as at to date and growing exponentially.