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Jordan- Oqlah calls on societies, associations to activate their role in protecting consumersTwo mergers between building societies are being completed on Wednesday although the sector says it is strong.To give a boost to cooperative societies in Punjab, the state government has decided to celebrate the year 2009 as the 'Year of Cooperatives'. 'We are aiming for a complete overhaul of the system and give more autonomy to these (cooperative) societies.Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Tuesday asked Calcutta Film Society to submit a report on what the state should do to create ?the right infrastructure? and ?environment to promote good film culture?.KUALA LUMPUR: Football activists in Brunei are contemplating the setting up of a new national football association after Brunei Amateur Football Association (Bafa) was deregistered by Brunei Registrar of Societies (ROS).The Illinois Humanities Council is inviting smaller museums, libraries and historical societies in towns of fewer than 30,000 residents to apply to host ?New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music,? a Smithsonian traveling exhibition.THE main banks and building societies are refusing to say whether customers defaulting on their mortgages can voluntarily surrender their homes rather than endure repossession proceedings in the court. ATLANTA, GA.- The thrill of discovery, chronicled as a turning-point in the appreciation of ancient art and societies, connects the exhibition ?Wonderful Things: The Harry Burton Photographs and the Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun? at the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University to ?Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs? at the Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center. Britain must rethink plans for a database holding details of every email, mobile phone and internet visit, Europe's human rights commissioner has said in an outspoken attack on the growth of surveillance societies. Thomas Hammarberg said that UK proposals for sweeping powers to collect and store data will increase the risk of the "violation of an individual's privacy". The Red Cross has deployed seven emergency teams normally reserved for major global disasters to fight Zimbabwe's worsening cholera epidemic, it said in a statement Wednesday.Yahoo! News Search Results for Societies
