Some 2,200 delegates are meeting for the Communist Party of China's 18th congress that opens on 8 November. By the end, China will have a new party leadership that the world will have to live with for 10 years.
Beijing will select new members for its body of power in the November 8 Party Congress. Ahead of the big event, some are saying Xi Jinping, who is expected to be named next party leader, will have limited power.
The political direction of China's new party chief, Xi Jinping, remains unclear even after serving as the party's vice president for five years. Maybe that is what qualified him for the job as president and party head.
Li Keqiang is expected to become China's next prime minister. Although reports say he was liberal as a student, he is the protégé of the more conservative outgoing president Hu Jintao.
Germany's non-governmental organization FES has decided to bestow its human rights award on Pakistan's Tribal Union of Journalists for consolidating media freedom in one of the world's most dangerous regions.
Experts say that the reshuffle of India's federal cabinet by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is aimed at wooing voters ahead of 2014 parliamentary elections and state elections in 2013.
Their missions are dangerous and covert. Details about German Special Forces operations are only revealed in the aftermath - if at all. And even then, not much information gets out.
President Obama says that bin Laden would have escaped if the US sought Pakistan's permission.
Indian parties feel irrespective of who becomes the next US president, good relations will persist.
Dengue fever, transmitted by the Aedes mosquito, has affected millions of people in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia this year. The killer disease spreads as experts fear a new vector is to blame.
The Mumbai Film Festival is celebrating 100 years of Bollywood. From the very beginning, there have been prime examples of Indo-German cooperation in film. Now, young screenplay authors are reviving the tradition.
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan combines the mysticism of Sufism with oriental beats, a genre known as Qawwali music. The Pakistani artist, known for his Bollywood hits, told DW that he plays music to promote peace.
The attack on a 14-year-old girl in Pakistan has prompted society to take a firm stand against extremism, political scientist Andrea Fleschenberg tells DW.
Ethnic violence in Myanmar has forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes.
The recent attack on a shrine in Pakistan's northwestern district of Nowshera is proof that the Taliban consider pluralistic Islam a big ideological threat, say experts.
A grand festival is being held in the Indian capital New Delhi to commemorate 60 years of diplomatic relations between India and Germany. The theme of the Indo-German Urban Festival aims at improving city life.
What started a decade ago with a few hundred participants has now become the largest Asian gay pride parade. This year, well over 50,000 people showed up in the Taiwanese capital to show their support.
Missionaries help rescue North Korean women who are trafficked to China to work as sex slaves.
Thousands of Afghan girls and boys are trafficked into neighboring countries each year.
A handbook for doctors on simple techniques to write clearly and quickly is in the works in India.
Indian geckos face extinction as they are caught and trafficked to many Southeast Asian states.
The Indian government says it is bolstering its cyber defense capabilities.
Rights groups in India have criticized insensitive remarks against Indian rape victims.