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About 100 Tibetan exiles chanted prayers as they began a hunger strike on Friday in a busy business district of Bombay, to demand the release of a Tibetan Buddhist monk jailed in China over a spate of bombings.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has authorized the issuing of a Russian visa to the Dalai Lama to let him visit the Kalmyk Republic, the press service of Kalmyk President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov reported.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrived in South Africa on 3 November 2004, on His third visit since 1996, and was given a traditional Zulu welcome by the African Cultural Heritage Trust (ACHT).

Tibetan Youth Congress has remained consistent with its demand for the immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners in Tibet, with special reference to Tulku Tenzin Delek, Geshe Sonam Phuntsok and Panchen Lama.

South Africans must not relax in their efforts towards national reconciliation. This was stated by the Dalai Lama, speaking yesterday at a press conference in Johannesburg, where he was accompanied by his "Zulu warrior" host

On behalf of the Kashag and the Central Tibetan Administration, I would like to offer you our congratulations for winning the Presidential election.

Hundreds of protesting Tibetans sat on a hunger strike for the third consecutive day Thursday in this Himachal Pradesh town to stop the execution in China of a Tibetan allegedly involved in bombings.

Exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama urged South Africa on Thursday to do more to build a "new society" 10 years after the end of apartheid and said democracy was not enough for reconciliation.

Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, said on Thursday he is eager to go to China -- where he last visited 50 years ago -- and stressed that Beijing has failed to understand that he has dropped demands for independence.

Felicitating President George W. Bush on his reelection, Dr. Nawang Rabgyal, Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to the Americas, thanked the United States of America for its concern and sympathy for the plight of Tibet.