Lamas attend a ceremony to award Gexe Lharampa, the highest academic degree in Tibetan Buddhism studies, at the Jokhang Monastery in Lhasa, capital of Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, April 5, 2013. [Photo/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.