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EXPATS DIARY
2011
Apr 13-15 Songkran, Thailand New year
Apr 23 St George's Day
Jun 19 Fathers Day (UK)
Jul 30 1966 World Cup. England 4-2 Germany
Aug 15 VJ Day
Aug 01- 30 Ramadan
Sep 17-Oct 03 Munich Oktoberfest
Oct 21 1805 Battle of Trafalgar
Oct 30 UK Clocks back to GMT
Nov 13 Remembrance Day
Nov 11-13 Loy Krathong Thailand
Nov 30 St Andrew's Day
2012
Jan 23 Chinese New Year (Dragon.)
Jan 25 Burns Night
Jan 26 Australia Day
Feb 18 - 21 Rio Carnival
Feb 21 Mardi Gras
Mar 01 St David's Day
Apr 03 Mothers Day (UK)
Mar 17 St Patrick's Day
Mar 25 UK Clocks forward to BST
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EXPAT RELATED NEWS FROM 
BBC
NEWS - At Home Abroad
10 May
EU sanctions cheaper mobile-phone calls within Europe Regulations to
make using a mobile phone abroad significantly cheaper have been passed by the
European Parliament.
08 May
Has the airport experience become horrible? Rarely a week passes without
passport queue woes in the UK or tales of overzealous security staff in the US.
So has going through an airport become a horrible experience?
06 May
Customs checks 'drop as staff move to passport control' The number of
customs checks at main UK airports has dropped because staff have been moved to
work on passport control, the Immigration Service Union claims.
04 May
'Unacceptably long' queues at Stansted Airport in Essex Passengers were
caught up in "unacceptably long" queues at passport control on the eve of the
Bank Holiday weekend, airport bosses said.
03 May
Waiting target for non-EEA visitors at Heathrow missed in April The UK
Border Force failed to meet its target at Heathrow Airport in April for
processing most passengers from outside the European Economic Area within 45
minutes, BAA has said.
28 Apr
Questions over queues at Heathrow Airport Long queues at Heathrow
Airport passport control on Friday evening have cleared overnight, BAA confirms.
27 Apr Expat
death in China: Who was Neil Heywood? The death of British businessman
Neil Heywood in China has sparked a murder investigation involving the wife of a
disgraced politician, and has left the country's Communist Party reeling from
its worst scandal in decades.
14 Apr Neil
Heywood China death: Foreign Office defends response The Foreign Office
has defended its response to the suspected murder of a British businessman in
China.
04 Apr
William Hague criticises 'time-wasting' Britons abroad William Hague has
criticised Britons who waste the time of consular staff with "ludicrous
requests" and "bizarre demands" while abroad.
31 Mar
Airlines urge review as UK air passenger duty rises by 8% Air passenger
duty (APD) has risen by 8%, as announced by the government in the Autumn
Statement last year.
31 Mar
Mali
coup: Britons warned to leave country British citizens have been warned
to leave the African state of Mali unless they have "urgent business" there
following a military coup.
28 Mar
EU acts
to end 'rip off' roaming charges By July this year mobile firms will be
forced to lower the prices of making a call or downloading data abroad.
26 Mar
UK
asks China to probe man's death in Chongqing The British government has
asked the Chinese authorities to look again into the death of a UK citizen.
29 Feb
BBC World Service at 80: A lifetime of shortwave The BBC World Service -
which marks its 80th birthday on Wednesday - was broadcast only on shortwave
back in 1932. Today, audiences on FM, digital radio and the internet are growing
fast while shortwave is in decline, but for millions it remains a lifeline.
28 Feb Prices
for using the mobile internet look set to fall It's done it before and
it's trying to do it again, but what's behind the EU's latest effort to cut
mobile charges?
28 Feb Prices
for using the mobile internet look set to fall It could soon cost less
to use mobile phones when travelling abroad in the European Union.
11 Feb 'Few
aware' of European holiday 112 emergency number Most people do not know
the number to call in the event of an emergency on holiday in Europe, a survey
suggests.
29 Jan
Home comforts can be hard to find for the expat "You get a honeymoon
period from friends and family. Then you find they have no sympathy and why
would they? You have come back from the 'life of luxury' and you are finding it
difficult to adjust:
18 Jan
Scottish independence: SNP dismisses expat voting call
Scottish ministers have dismissed calls to give Scots living outside
Scotland a vote in the independence referendum.
13 Jan Easyjet amends its booking charge
Airline Easyjet has amended its pricing amid government plans to ban excessive surcharges when buying tickets online.
10 Jan
The emotional rollercoaster of living abroad These four professionals
have very different feelings about the countries they moved to for work:
07 Jan Britons warned over Nairobi terror threat The British government has warned UK tourists in Kenya to take extra care, amid fears that a terrorist attack in Nairobi is imminent.
06 Jan World Service 'advert plan' attacked by former director Plans to run adverts on the BBC World Service have been attacked by one of its former managing directors.
05 Jan World Service 'advert plan' approved Plans to run adverts on one of the BBC World Service's radio services have been approved by the BBC Trust.
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