Mother's Day

====Thailand====
Mother's day in [[Thailand]] is celebrated on the birthday of the Queen Mother of Thailand, [[Sirikit]] (12 August).<ref>{{Cite news |title= Police chief returns earlier for Mother's Day |work= [[MCOT]] news |agency= Thai News Agency |date= 10 August 2012 |url= http://enews.mcot.net/view.php?id=11235 |quote= (...) an audience with Her Majesty Queen Sirikit on Tuesday on the occasion of her birthday, which is also observed as National Mother's Day. |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110723203602/http://enews.mcot.net/view.php?id=11235 |archive-date= 23 July 2011 |df= dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|first=Brian|last=Handwerk|title=Mother's Day Turns 100: Its Surprisingly Dark History|url=https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/05/140508-mothers-day-nation-gifts-facts-culture-moms/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140510211603/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/05/140508-mothers-day-nation-gifts-facts-culture-moms/|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 May 2014|magazine=National Geographic|date=9 May 2014|access-date=9 July 2019}}</ref> The holiday was first celebrated around the 1980s as part of the campaign by the Prime Minister of Thailand [[Prem Tinsulanonda]] to promote Thailand's Royal family.<ref name=handley /> Father's Day is celebrated on the late King [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]]'s birthday.<ref name=handley>{{Cite book|title= The King Never Smiles: a biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej |author=Paul M. Handley |publisher=[[Yale University Press]] |year= 2006 |isbn= 9780300106824 |page= 288 |title-link=The King Never Smiles }} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=d75WYMdp8-0C&dq=Sirikit+mother%27s+day&pg=PA288 online version])</ref>