Daily News 2011-01-24

Diving queen Guo to retire別了，郭晶晶時代Chinese diving queen Guo Jingjing is retiring, Xinhua reports. National diving team leader Zhou Jihong confirmed Sunday that Guo had submitted her application for retirement. Guo's retirement marked the end of an era during which she set an almost unbeatable record of four Olympic gold medals and five consecutive victories in both the individual and synchronized 3-meter springboard at the world championships.據新華社報導，跳水皇后郭晶晶終於做出「謝幕」決定。中國跳水隊領隊周繼紅周日確認，郭晶晶已經遞交退役申請。郭晶晶的退役，也宣告了一個跳水女皇時代的終結。她創造了幾乎無法超越的世界記錄：四枚奧運金牌，並實現了世錦賽3米板單、雙人的五連冠。Beijing sees longest period without rain北京破最長無降水紀錄Beijing hasn't seen rain or snow falls for more than three months, the longest streak for non-precipitation in record over the past 30 years, the Beijing Times reports. The subsequent drought is affecting 90 percent of the city's wheat growth.據《京華時報》消息，北京已經3個多月沒有降雨降雪，創30年來最長時間無降水記錄。受此影響，北京九成麥苗因乾旱面臨枯萎。ICBC to own BEA工行將收購東亞銀行Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the world's biggest lender by market value, agreed to buy a stake in Bank of East Asia's US operations, Bloomberg reports. ICBC will acquire an 80 percent stake in the BEA's US unit for US$140 million. If completed, the deal would mark the first purchase of a majority stake in a US depository institution by a Chinese bank.據彭博新聞社電，世界市值最大的銀行——中國工商銀行日前同意收購東亞銀行在美國的部分業務。據協議，工行將拿出1.4億美元，收購東亞銀行在美國80%的股權。如果收購成功，該協議將標誌著中國的銀行機構首次控股美國的銀行。Unicom to get Telefónica seat聯通進入西電信董事會China Unicom, China's second-largest telecom operator, will win a seat on the board of Spanish group Telefónica, Financial Times reports. The two companies announced Sunday of a deepening in their strategic cooperation agreement through a further mutual purchase of each other's shares for US$500 million each.據英國《金融時報》消息，中國第二大電信運營商中國聯通將在西班牙電信集團董事會獲得一個席位。兩家公司上周日宣布，將各自拿出5億美元進一步購買對方股票，以加深現有的戰略合作協議。