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Chinese Outreach – and "Inreach" – were amongst many highlights featured at Tibet: Gem in Asia, Bay Area Friends of Tibet's 19th Annual Tibet Day Cultural Fair held Sunday, November 14, 2004 at a large three-room Fort Mason Conference center in the city of San Francisco.

The five days token hunger strike has undergone in full swing. On 13th November 2004, the fourth day of hunger strike, the day began with usual prayer meetings for the long life and safety of Tulku Tenzin Delek and all other political prisoners under the Chinese prisons.

Representatives of Tibet Support Groups (TSG) in the United States and Canada met Saturday and Sunday in New York to exchange experiences and discuss ways and means of building a mechanism for coordination and generating a consensus

As part of the Bay Area Friends of Tibet-organized "Tibet Day" festival on November 14 in San Francisco, SF Tibetan Youth Congress co-presented a Tibetan film festival, screening such a varied mix as Kundun, Devotion and Defiance, Satya, Tibet:The Stolen Child and the Cup.

The leader of the Buddhist community of Russia's Kalmykia region said on Monday that he would "give a 99.9% guarantee" that the Dalai Lama will visit Kalmykia late this month.

"While publicizing the urgent case of Tulku Tenzin Delek, we must, at the same time, speak of the continuous repression in Tibet by the Chinese Govt. ...Despite sincere efforts of negotiation by the Tibetan Govt. in Exile for the last 20 years

Tibetans and supporters in Toronto, Canada gathered at the Chinese Consulate for a candlelight vigil this weekend and will continue every weekend evening until December 10

Around 150 Tibetans in exile commenced a five-day relay hunger strike here today, seeking the immediate release of Buddhist teacher Tulku Tenzin Delek, who, the Tibetan Youth Congress says, has been "falsely" implicated and sentenced to death by the Chinese government.

Bharat-Tibbat Sahyog Manch (BTSM), one of the most active Indian Tibet support groups for the Tibetan freedom struggle has formally set-up its new unit at Mundgod on 12 November 2004.

About 53 class XI students would be selected from schools in India and Nepal. Five seats has been reserved for Tibetan students, who understands Tibetan, between the age of 16 to 18, studying in Indian Public Schools