Traditional chengyao cakes are sold at a cake shop in Suzhou, East China's Jiangsu province, on March 13, 2013, which is the second day of the second lunar month, or Longtaitou. [Wang Jiankang/Asianewsphoto]
An unusually heavy downpour hit Durban for two days before the BRICS summit's debut on African soil, but interest for a better platform for emerging markets were still sparked at the summit.