A woman protects herself with a face-kini and hat while playing in the water in Qingdao, a coastal city in Shandong province, on July 3, 2013. [Photo by Huang Xianjie/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.